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BANKERS? OBITUARY RECORD.
Audemon.?J.T. Anderson, President of the Farmers' Bank. Commerce, Mo., died Sept. 14.
A Ibro.?Stephen 8. AJbro died at Newport, K. I., Sept. 10. in his seventy-ninth year. He had long been identified with the public interests or Newport, and bad served in prominent official positions. He was for several years a member of the Board of Asylum Commissioners, a director in the National Exchange Bank and one of the Vice-Presklents of the Island Savings Bank.	_
" Cavaro*.?Charles Cavaroc, for many years the best known banker In New Orleans, died there on Sept. 12, aged sixty-seven. He was a native of Auguilene, France; went to Louisiana in 1846 and started in the wine business. The wine house of Charles Cavaroc & Co. soon became the largest tn New Orleans. In 1888 be was elected President of the Bank of America. He organised the New Orleans Insurance Association, of which he was President. Prom 1888 to 1878 ne was regarded as the wealthiest citisen of New Orleans. In the panic of 1878 he went down. His uuik, his firm and nearly all his companies failed. During his affluence he was liberal In bis girts to all public enterprises* a patron of art and generous to the agricultural Interests of the State, particularly the sugar-planting industry.
Ch?mb?i lain.?Ephraim Chamberlain. President of the Savings Bank of Utica, N. Y_ Vlce-President of the Oneida National Bank, and ex-Mayor of Utica, died Sept. 17, aged seventy years. He was actively engaged in other business enterprises in addition to tils banking interests.
Crlm.?C. 8. Crim, President of the First National Bank, Gallon, O., died 8ept. 16.
Franc*.?Charles B. France, of St. Joseph, Mo., whose death was briefly noticed in the last number of the Joubmal, was one of the successful bankers and capitalists of the West. Mr. Franco was born in Roanoke county, Vtu, Oct. ft, 183S, and went to St. Joseph at the age of nineteen years, where he became a clerk in a store. He afterwards engaged in the express business at Denver, and returning to St. Joseph in 1888, be became Assistant Cashier or the State Savings Bank. Later this bank was reorganized as the State National Bank, and Mr. France was successively chosen Cashier and President. His death occurred on August 30. Mr. France left a very valuable estate?a monument to his business energy &nd ability.
Graham.?Alfred E. Graham, President of the First National Bank, Martinsville, Ind? died of paralysis Sept. 22. He was fifty-nine years old.
Hull.?Morton B. Hull, Vice-President of the National Bank of America, Chicago, died Sept. 21. Mr. Hull was well known in business and banking circles, and had been identified with the lumber interests of Chicago for over thirty-five years. He was born at Berlin, N. Y., about sixty-three years ago.
Hacht.?Isaac F. Hecht. of the banking bouse QlMeoht Bros., San Francisco, and one of the enterprising men of the Pacific coast metropoli^aied August 27.
Langdoa.?James R. Langdon, President oi tike Montpelier (Vt.) National Bank, and Vice-President of the Central Vermont Bailroad, dipd-Sept. 20 at the age of almost eighty-two years. He was twice a member of the Verin^rw Legislature.
Merrill.?William F. Merrill, Vice-PresidlAt of the Hamilton Bank, Brooklyn, N. Y? died 8ept. 1ft, in his sixty-ninth year. He was flrmerlv a broker, and though a director of the Hamilton Bank since its organization, he became President only a short time ago.
Malaser.?Bernhard Mainzer, of the banking firm of Hailgarten & Co., New York city, died Sept. 18. He was at one time employed in the National Park Bank, but had been connected with Messrs.Hailgarten & Co. for the past thirty years.
N?lM>n.?Andrew J. Nelson, President of the First National Bank, Georgetown. Tex., died 8ept. 17, aged sixty years.
Pfet.-W. J. Poet, Cashier of the First National Bank. Cot vallia, Ore., died recently. His death was due to accidental poisoning.
Ku?*ell.?William T. Bussell, ex-President of the Goshen (X. Y.) National Bank, and one of that village?s best known and most repected citizens, died Sept. 18. aged seventy-four years. He was born in New York, and his family removed to Goshen when he was eight years old. When he left school in 1840, he engaged In the dry goods business In Goshen with David Redfield. In 1857 he was elected Cashier of the Orange County Bank, a few months later resigning to become Cashier of the Goshen Bank. In 1875 he was elected President of the Goshen National Bank, and held that position until a few years ago. when be retired from active business life.
Speers.?J. B. Speers, President of the Citizens? Bank, Pine Bluff, Ark? died at Little Rock, Ark., Sept. 7. He was born In Ireland about sixty-four years ago.
Tripp.?S. Vincent Tripp, Vice-President of the Poughkeepsie (N. Y.) National Bank, died Sept. 22. aged seventy-four years. He had been for years a bookkeeper in the Home
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