These four links will open EXCEL spreadsheets that you can download and manipulate to serve your purposes.
1 - Key Bank Data (1863-1935, all charters 1-14348)
Organization date if available
Charter date
Opening date (1901-1909)
Closing date with fate if before 1936
Last outstanding taxable circulation
Summary corporate history
2 - Bank presidents, cashiers, total resources, circulations by year (1863-1935)
3 - National bank notes issued by bank title (1863-1935)
Exact title found on issued notes
Series/type/sheet combination/beginning and ending serial numbers
Title change dates:
( ) = formal title change date for new titles applied for by the bankers
[ ] = date between the end or start of unofficial titles that appeared on notes
Supplemental title information
Smithsonian Scan number
Bank
Series
Type
Sheet combination
Plate letters
Treasury signatures
Certification date (1876-1929)
Plate date
Sorting aids (columns 0 through W)
Caveats
The data presented is primarily transcribed from Comptroller of the Currency annual reports and contemporary records maintained by the Comptroller of the Currency’s staff that are now housed in Record Group 101 at the National Archives in College Park, Maryland. The accuracy and completeness of these data, particularly such things as the summary corporate histories in spreadsheet 1, is dependent upon reports having been received by the Comptroller’s office and the fidelity with which the information was recorded. This information is known to be incomplete, especially information pertaining to predecessor and successor territory/state banks and mergers involving territory/state banks. Consequently, the information provided here should be viewed as a starting point as you research a particular bank.
In cases where specific data such as organization or opening dates are missing, the compilers of these spreadsheets were unable to recover that information from the available records. The reason is that critical records such as organization reports are missing or in the case of opening dates, the information wasn’t recorded.
The sources for the names of the bank presidents and cashiers presented in spreadsheet 2 are listed in the spreadsheet. Most are from the Comptroller of the Currency annual reports. Consult the SPMC Bank and Bankers data base when you delve into a particular bank because that resource often contains the full names of the presidents and cashiers as well as other officers in the bank and even biographical profiles of these men.
Everyone makes transcription mistakes and typos—everyone: the clerks in the Comptroller’s office who recorded the data, the typesetters who prepared the Comptroller annual reports, the clerks who sent plate orders to the printers, the siderographers who laid-in the bank information on the printing plates, the compliers of these spreadsheets. We have made serious strides in cleaning up such problems and continue to do so.
If you discover problems, send your finds to: peterhuntoon@outlook.com.
Sources of Data
Key Bank Data (1863-1935, all charters 1-14348) – Louis Van Belkum, primary compiler; Peter Huntoon and Mark Drengson revisions.
Organization date
Organization Reports, National Currency and Bonds Ledgers, plate dates on proofs
Charter date
Organization reports, Certificates of Authority to Commence Business
Opening date (1901-1909)
Organization Reports
Closing date with fate if before 1936
Comptroller of the Currency Annual Reports
Last outstanding circulation
Comptroller of the Currency Annual Reports
Summary corporate history
Van Belkum (1968), Organization Reports
Bank presidents, cashiers, total resources, circulations by year (1863-1935) – Andrew Pollock, primary compiler; Mark Drengson and Peter Huntoon, supplemental compilers.
Comptroller of the Currency Annual Reports (primary)
Bankers Magazine, various bank directories (secondary)
National bank notes issued by bank title (1863-1935) – Louis Van Belkum, primary compiler; Peter Huntoon, exact bank titles and revisions to issuance data
Exact title found on issued notes
BEP certified proofs, observed notes
Listing of title changes in Comptroller of the Currency annual reports
Series/type/sheet combination/beginning and ending serial numbers
National Currency and Bond Ledgers
Title change dates:
( ) = formal title change date for new titles applied for by the bankers
Comptroller of the Currency Annual Reports
[ ] = date between the end or start of unofficial titles that appeared on notes
BEP proofs, Series of 1929 overprinting plate billing ledger
Supplemental title information
Comptroller of the Currency annual reports
Characteristics of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing certified proofs (Series of 1875, 1882, 1902, some Original) – Peter Huntoon
Smithsonian crowd-sourced project to catalog the BEP proofs
