Banker Data Challenge by State

Banker Information page for John Jay Knox

SPMC Bank Note History Project - Banker Data Challenge by State

See how your favorite State is doing in the Banker Data Challenge and help us out with gathering basic banker bio data (full name and birth/death dates) for the SPMC Banks & Bankers Database!

We already have almost all of the bankers who would have been signing National bank notes set up in the database (currently 65,000+ bankers). But most of those bankers are just in there with their first & middle initials, which makes it hard to identify them. So, we're trying to get basic info (full name and birth/death dates) into the database for as many of these bankers as we can. This information helps us tie together multi-bank (and multi-state) bankers and also provides a good starting point for further biographical research on these bankers.

How to Submit Basic Banker Bio Data

The easiest way to help us out with gathering basic banker bio data (full name and birth/death dates) is to locate the banker's FindAGrave.com page (or Wikipedia page if a famous person) and then submit that link to the Banks & Bankers Database. This link can easily be submitted when viewing that banker's Banker Information page in the Database.

To view a banker's Banker Information page, first you need to login to the Banks & Bankers Database from the SPMC.org website. Here is a link to the Bank Note History Project home page with instructions on how to get logged into the Banks & Bankers Database.

Once you are logged into the Banks & Bankers Database, the quickest way to get to a bank officer is to click on the Officer Search button in the upper left corner. Then, on the Bank Officer Search page, just type in the charter number for the bank your banker was associated with and click on the Search button to bring up a list of the bank officers for that bank. Find the banker in the list and click on the banker's name to bring up the Banker Information page. In the Comments, Links & Sources section, you will see instructions on how to submit a BioLink for that banker. See the screenshot to the right for an example of a Banker Information page. (Click on the image to enlarge it).

After a BioLink has been submitted for a banker, a database administrator will see that, and update the banker's bio info based on the link. The Banker Data Stats by State table below will be regularly updated with the latest banker counts. Thanks for helping us out!

Current Banker Data Stats by State

In the table below, the BankerBios column shows the number of bankers with basic bio info entered for them. The Total Bankers column is the number of bankers in the database for that state (including all Presidents & Cashiers, as well as VPs and Asst Cashiers that are known to have signed bank notes). The BankerPhotos column shows the number of bankers that have had their photo uploaded. This table will be updated regularly.

The table can be sorted based on any of the columns. Just click on the column header of the column you want to sort by. Clicking again on the column header will toggle thru the three sort order options. The arrow(s) on the sort column indicate the current sort order: Both-Arrows (Up & Down) is Original/Default sort order, Up-Arrow is Ascending, Down-Arrow is Descending.

Current Banker Data Challenge Stats (July 19, 2024)

State	BankerBios	PctDoneBios	Total Bankers	BankerPhotos	PctDonePhotos
Pennsylvania	4304	67.8	6351	782	12.3
Iowa	2709	97.3	2784	279	10
Minnesota	1302	56.6	2300	359	15.6
New York	1067	21.6	4936	441	8.9
Tennessee	987	97.9	1008	137	13.6
Nebraska	974	55.1	1767	428	24.2
Maryland	831	100	831	85	10.2
Ohio	798	23.5	3397	305	9
Oklahoma	765	30.6	2501	201	8
Alabama	718	95.7	750	33	4.4
Illinois	710	19.2	3692	269	7.3
Texas	685	15.2	4506	281	6.2
Massachusetts	647	29	2228	229	10.3
Missouri	550	42.5	1295	113	8.7
Oregon	507	72.5	699	34	4.9
Washington	409	50.9	803	106	13.2
New Jersey	408	22.5	1813	81	4.5
Rhode Island	400	96.4	415	120	28.9
Wisconsin	381	30.6	1244	161	12.9
Indiana	369	17.6	2098	130	6.2
California	338	17.7	1909	240	12.6
Connecticut	336	41.9	802	170	21.2
South Dakota	307	35.3	869	78	9
Virginia	303	28.1	1080	53	4.9
Wyoming	230	90.6	254	88	34.6
Maine	226	31.1	726	67	9.2
Michigan	221	16.9	1311	141	10.8
North Carolina	206	34.9	591	51	8.6
Kansas	192	9.2	2087	84	4
Vermont	186	34.5	539	79	14.7
North Dakota	183	17.1	1069	110	10.3
New Hampshire	181	34.3	528	91	17.2
Kentucky	179	14.3	1249	57	4.6
Utah	173	96.6	179	109	60.9
West Virginia	136	16.4	829	67	8.1
Idaho	136	31.3	434	75	17.3
District of Columbia	121	91.7	132	22	16.7
Georgia	114	13.7	835	33	4
South Carolina	114	27.9	408	50	12.3
Colorado	102	9.8	1041	35	3.4
Arkansas	81	15.5	521	49	9.4
Mississippi	80	27.5	291	17	5.8
Florida	72	13.6	530	33	6.2
Montana	61	10.3	590	40	6.8
New Mexico	60	16.8	357	9	2.5
Delaware	47	24.7	190	3	1.6
Arizona	32	18.5	173	21	12.1
Louisiana	21	5.7	369	14	3.8
Nevada	15	18.5	81	11	13.6
Hawaii	13	72.2	18	5	27.8
Alaska	11	44	25	1	4

All States	BankerBios	PctDoneBios	Total Bankers	BankerPhotos	PctDonePhotos
Totals	24000	36.7	65441	6477	9.9

Acknowledgments

• Thanks to the following people who have helped with Banker Bio information for the SPMC Banks & Bankers Database:

Mark Anderson, Fred Benson, Frank Clark, Greg Culpepper, Dan Dieter, Patrick Doughney, Julie Drengson, Mark Drengson, Jim Ehrhardt, Manning Garrett, Loren Gatch, Todd Gylsen, Matt Hansen, Shawn Hewitt, Derek Higgins, David Hollander, Peter Huntoon, Glen Jorde, Karl Kabelac, Sullivan Labno, William Lynch, Fred Maples, Robert Pfaff, Cord Polen, Jay Prestin, Richard Radick, Cody Regennitter, Michael Saharian, Tim Sanda, Gil Sem, Adam Stroup, Steve Sweeney, Andy Timmerman, Cory Williams.