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 (November 17, 2024)

State	BankerBios	PctDoneBios	Total Bankers	BankerPhotos	PctDonePhotos
Pennsylvania	4664	73.4	6352	882	13.9
Iowa	2715	97.5	2786	412	14.8
Minnesota	1370	59.3	2309	376	16.3
New York	1174	23.8	4934	522	10.6
Tennessee	987	97.9	1008	211	20.9
Nebraska	978	55.4	1766	447	25.3
Ohio	940	27.7	3397	408	12
Maryland	830	100	830	96	11.6
Oklahoma	829	33.1	2501	272	10.9
Illinois	811	22	3690	306	8.3
Massachusetts	756	33.9	2227	313	14.1
Texas	755	16.8	4505	319	7.1
Alabama	721	96.3	749	47	6.3
Missouri	625	48.3	1295	213	16.4
Oregon	507	72.5	699	50	7.2
New Jersey	452	24.9	1815	91	5
Indiana	450	21.4	2099	156	7.4
Wisconsin	427	34.3	1245	181	14.5
Washington	425	52.8	805	110	13.7
Rhode Island	401	96.6	415	123	29.6
Kansas	387	18.6	2085	189	9.1
California	373	19.6	1905	258	13.5
Virginia	369	34.1	1082	69	6.4
South Dakota	343	39.5	869	89	10.2
Connecticut	341	42.5	802	176	21.9
Michigan	262	20	1312	190	14.5
Wyoming	231	90.6	255	95	37.3
Vermont	230	42.8	538	82	15.2
Maine	228	31.4	726	69	9.5
North Carolina	208	35.2	591	60	10.2
Kentucky	205	16.4	1249	81	6.5
North Dakota	195	18.2	1071	114	10.6
New Hampshire	194	36.8	527	91	17.3
Idaho	193	44.4	435	93	21.4
Colorado	184	17.7	1040	103	9.9
Utah	174	97.2	179	113	63.1
Georgia	149	17.9	834	43	5.2
West Virginia	142	17.1	829	70	8.4
District of Columbia	122	92.4	132	31	23.5
South Carolina	116	28.4	408	58	14.2
Arkansas	90	17.3	520	53	10.2
Mississippi	82	28.2	291	24	8.2
Florida	78	14.7	530	38	7.2
New Mexico	74	20.8	356	25	7
Montana	65	11	590	45	7.6
Delaware	48	25.3	190	3	1.6
Arizona	32	18.5	173	22	12.7
Louisiana	25	6.8	369	19	5.1
Nevada	15	18.5	81	12	14.8
Hawaii	13	72.2	18	8	44.4
Alaska	13	54.2	24	1	4.2

All States	BankerBios	PctDoneBios	Total Bankers	BankerPhotos	PctDonePhotos
Totals	26000	39.7	65444	7859	12.0

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.