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 (February 17, 2025)

State	BankerBios	PctDoneBios	Total Bankers	BankerPhotos	PctDonePhotos
Pennsylvania	4903	77.1	6357	994	15.6
Iowa	2717	97.5	2787	488	17.5
Minnesota	1389	60.1	2312	380	16.4
New York	1386	28.1	4936	653	13.2
Illinois	1020	27.6	3689	431	11.7
Tennessee	988	97.8	1010	239	23.7
Nebraska	979	55.4	1767	448	25.4
Ohio	975	28.7	3397	422	12.4
Oklahoma	843	33.7	2501	276	11
Maryland	830	100	830	108	13
Texas	830	18.4	4508	337	7.5
Massachusetts	797	35.8	2226	365	16.4
Alabama	720	96.3	748	59	7.9
Missouri	641	49.5	1296	232	17.9
Indiana	549	26.1	2101	191	9.1
Oregon	509	72.8	699	55	7.9
New Jersey	501	27.6	1815	107	5.9
Wisconsin	441	35.4	1246	187	15
Washington	425	52.8	805	110	13.7
Kansas	404	19.4	2084	200	9.6
Rhode Island	401	96.6	415	123	29.6
Virginia	384	35.4	1084	84	7.7
California	374	19.6	1904	259	13.6
South Dakota	361	41.3	875	90	10.3
Maine	355	48.5	732	81	11.1
Connecticut	345	43	802	178	22.2
Michigan	333	25.4	1313	221	16.8
Vermont	234	43.5	538	87	16.2
Wyoming	231	90.6	255	96	37.6
Colorado	226	21.7	1040	125	12
Kentucky	216	17.3	1249	91	7.3
North Carolina	214	36.2	591	69	11.7
North Dakota	201	18.8	1071	115	10.7
Idaho	200	46	435	95	21.8
New Hampshire	197	37.4	527	91	17.3
Georgia	187	22.4	834	51	6.1
Utah	174	97.2	179	114	63.7
West Virginia	145	17.5	830	74	8.9
District of Columbia	122	92.4	132	33	25
South Carolina	117	28.7	407	59	14.5
Montana	109	18.5	589	75	12.7
Arkansas	91	17.5	520	54	10.4
Mississippi	89	30.7	290	38	13.1
Florida	86	16.2	530	44	8.3
New Mexico	83	23.3	356	30	8.4
Louisiana	56	15.1	370	29	7.8
Delaware	48	25.3	190	3	1.6
Arizona	32	18.5	173	24	13.9
Nevada	19	23.5	81	15	18.5
Alaska	13	54.2	24	1	4.2
Hawaii	13	72.2	18	8	44.4

All States	BankerBios	PctDoneBios	Total Bankers	BankerPhotos	PctDonePhotos
Totals	27505	42.0	65474	8739	13.3

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, Raiden Honaker, 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.