Banks and Banking Collections

Subject Listing:
Banks and Banking

Bank of Milwaukee. Board of Directors.
Minute book, 1837-1842.
Milwaukee Manuscript Collection AB
Minute book, beginning with the first meeting of the Board from 5 January 1837 to 2 August 1842. Finding aid available in the Archives.

Day, Frederick T., 1842-1920.
Business papers, 1855-1910.
Milwaukee Manuscript Collection M
Papers, including cash and letter books, of a Milwaukee real estate and loan operator and president of the Plankinton Bank. Most of the collection relates to the operation of the loan business, especially the making of loans on farm lands in the Dakotas, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. There is a vast quantity of correspondence, much of it routine, with mortgagers and with local agents concerning the examination of applications for loans, collection of interest commissions, security, abstracts of title, extensions of mortgages, foreclosures, and taxes. The agents included Melvin Grisby, C. M. Harrison, Edward J. Hodgson, and George W. Wishard. The collection contains letterbooks dealing with the administration of the firm's assignee, William H. Momsen. Finding aid available in the Archives.

Economy Savings & Loan Associates (Milwaukee, Wis.).
Annual reports, 1927-1968.
Milwaukee Small Collection 204
Annual financial statements and a prospectus (ca. 1930) of a Milwaukee, Wis. neighborhood building and loan association formed in 1927. Economy provided savings and investment opportunities to persons of low or median income and financed first home mortgages for its members. Members were primarily families of German descent who lived near Economy's office on North Teutonia Avenue. The association was dissolved in 1968 and its assets sold to Hopkins Savings and Loan.

Gurda, Francis S., 1895-1976.
Papers, 1886-1981.
Milwaukee Manuscript Collection 49
Papers of a Milwaukee Polish American architect and engineer, containing architectural drawings of Milwaukee public and private buildings, including St. Adalbert's Church, St. Francis Hospital, Lincoln State Bank, and the Convent Hill Low Rent Housing Project; a family tree and other papers of genealogical interest; and family photographs, including a World War I photo of Company K, 127th Infantry Regiment, 32nd Division.

Independent Fruit Dealer's Union Mutual Loan Association (Milwaukee, Wis.).
Records, 1916, 1951-1970.
Milwaukee Manuscript Collection 143
Records of a mutual aid society including a 1916 certificate of incorporation, a list of shareholders, a ledger recording receipts, disbursements, and loans (1951-1958, 1966-1967), promissory notes (1961-1970), and several member account booklets (1959-1965). Forms part of the Wisconsin Jewish Archives. Finding aid available in the Archives.

Marshall, Samuel, 1820-1907.
Papers, 1841-1946.
Milwaukee Manuscript Collection AQ
Papers of a Milwaukee pioneer banker, including Marshall's letters to his brother describing his 1841 move from Philadelphia to Milwaukee and his early involvement in the banking business. Collection also contains materials on Marshall's role in the founding of the State Bank (Madison, Wisconsin) and the Marshall and Ilsley of Milwaukee; the Marshall family genealogy; and some correspondence from the 1940s concerning the preservation of Marshall's papers. Finding aid available in the Archives.

Milwaukee, Wisconsin business directory, 1870-1873.
Milwaukee Manuscript Collection AK
List of liquor dealers, cigar manufacturers, and banks of Milwaukee. Finding aid available in the Archives.

Orton, John Jay, 1817-1895.
Papers, 1837-1884.
Milwaukee Manuscript Collection BK
Papers of a lawyer and financier originally from New York. While working for a New York State bank, Orton organized financial and land deals with Milwaukee lawyer Allison Lewis and others, including James Kneeland of Wauwatosa. Orton's business relationships are well documented in the collection. Includes extensive correspondence concerning the lawsuit between Orton and Josiah A. Noonan resulting from financial recriminations after the burning of the Humboldt and Menonomee Paper Mills; and letters from Wisconsin Supreme Court Chief Justice Edward G. Ryan which provide intimate details concerning the other justices. Also contains correspondence with Isaac Sherman on the management of a lumber company; legal papers from a number of cases handled by Orton, and two account books. Finding aid available in the Archives.

Plankinton Bank (Milwaukee, Wis.).
Records, 1866-1907.
Milwaukee Manuscript Collection K
Includes correspondence (1866-1907); ledgers, registers, and journals (1887-1902) of the bank and its two presidents, John Plankinton and Frederick T. Day, documenting the operations of the bank and its collapse in 1893 after the failure of loans to Frank A. Lappen & Company; and testimony and legal papers of the bank's assignees. The assignees records include assignments, court testimony, and other legal papers relating to litigation in Milwaukee County circuit court concerning the affairs of the bank. Finding aid available in the Archives.

Sand, Nathan, 1881-1947.
Papers, 1914-1947.
Milwaukee Manuscript Collection DL
Papers of the secretary to the Milwaukee division of the American Jewish Congress. Most of the collection pertains to the work of the Congress, including files on the boycott of German products in 1933 and the Olympic Games of 1936, and promotion of other anti-Nazi measures; on cooperation with other Jewish organizations; on World War II Russian relief programs; and on internal conflicts within the Milwaukee group.Other files include records of the Milwaukee Jewish Council (1939-1947); Poale Zion in Milwaukee (1939-1947); Bank Hapoalim (1937-1940); as well as a scrapbook, and miscellaneous papers (1914-1947) relating to Milwaukee Jewish groups interested in labor, youth, veterans, and interracial relations. Finding aid available in the Archives.

Smith, Henry, 1838-1916.
Papers, 1846-1916.
Milwaukee Manuscript Collection CP

West Allis (Wis.). Clerk.
Subject files, 1902-1961.
Milwaukee Series 4
Correspondence, banks reports, bids, contracts, petitions, ordinances, and claims relating to such city business as elections, appointments, taxes, finance, public works, parks, schools, sanitation, and traffic. Files for 1926-1927 and M-Z of 1932-1933 are missing. Finding aid available in the Archives.

Whitcomb, Henry F., 1848-1932.
Papers, 1868-1933.
Milwaukee Manuscript Collection 116
Papers of a Wisconsin railroad official, businessman and investor. Includes personal and business correspondence; and annual reports, legal records, and subject files pertaining to the Eastern Wisconsin Railway and Light Company; the Wisconsin Central; the Milwaukee, Lake Shore and Western Railway; the Minneapolis and St. Louis Railroad Company; and other railroads with which he was involved. A large part of the collection provides documentation of Whitcomb's career as receiver, general manager and president of the Wisconsin Central Railroad Line (1893-1906). Finding aid available in the Archives.

Wisconsin. Circuit Court (Sheboygan County).
Court exhibit: People's Saving Bank, 1932.
Sheboygan Small Series 1
An audit report for the period February 1 through December 31, 1932, giving such information as the names of the corporators, trustees, and officers; and statements regarding investments and financial condition.

Wisconsin. Circuit Court (Sheboygan County).
Court exhibits: Plymouth Exchange Bank, 1931-1938.
Sheboygan Small Series 3
Includes minutes of trustees (1931-1938) and a volume containing correspondence between the bank's directors and the state banking commissioner in May 1936.

Wisconsin. Circuit Court (Sheboygan County).
Court exhibits: Savings Safety Bank, 1927.
Sheboygan Small Series 2
Organization and incorporation record book containing subscription lists, the constitution and by-laws, stockholder's ledger, and similar matters.

Wisconsin. Circuit Court (Sheboygan County).
Court exhibits: Sheboygan County Mutual Savings Bank, 1925-1936.
Sheboygan Series 5
Includes organization and incorporation records, minutes of director's meetings and correspondence (1925-1933); a signature book containing signatures, addresses, occupations, and pass book numbers of depositors; and two audit reports. Arranged by type of record and then chronologically.

Wisconsin. Circuit Court (Sheboygan County).
Court exhibits: State Bank of Haven, 1932-1943.
Sheboygan Series 6
Includes minutes of the trustees and a general ledger, arranged by type of record and then chronologically.

Wisconsin. Circuit Court (Sheboygan County).
Court exhibits: State Bank of Sheboygan Falls, 1910-1943.
Sheboygan Series 7
Includes minutes of the directors (1910-1933) and trustees (1933-1943), miscellaneous correspondence, court orders, and other papers.

Wisconsin National Bank. Board of Directors.
Resolutions, 1900.
Milwaukee Manuscript Collection Y
Illuminated copy of resolutions adopted by the board on the occasion of the death of Senator Philetus Sawyer of Oshkosh.