Quaker City National Bank, Quaker City, OH (Charter 1989)

The old Quaker City National Bank, located on the corner of South and Broadway Streets, Quaker City, Ohio, ca2022. Courtesy of Google Maps

Quaker City National Bank, Quaker City, OH (Chartered 1872 - Closed (Merger) 1996)

Town History

Quaker City is a village in Guernsey County, Ohio. The first settlement at Quaker City was made around 1850, but growth remained static until a store opened at the site in 1870. A post office called Quaker City has been in operation since 1872. Quaker City is located along Leatherwood Creek about 8 miles west of Barnesville and 9 miles south of I70 on OH-513.

The population was 502 at the 2010 census. In 1880 the population was 594, peaking at 878 in 1900, then decreasing to 613 by 1930.

Quaker City had one National Bank chartered during the Bank Note Era, and it issued National Bank Notes.

Bank History

Organized March 26, 1872
Chartered May 31, 1872
Bank was Open past 1935
For Bank History after 1935 see: FDIC Bank History website
Merged into Wheeling NB in St. Clairsville, OH, March 29, 1996

On Saturday, April 6, the directors of the Quaker City National Bank met and contracts were awarded for a banking house. The contract for carpentry work went to Wm. Marsh, and brick and stone to Heston, Carter & Heston. A Hall's Burglar and Fire Proof Safe was purchased, one of the strongest and best made by the firm said to be one of the best in the United States.

In January 1906, the old board of directors was re-elected as follows: John R. Hall, T.M. Johnson, I.P. Steele, D.C. Goodhart, Joel Hall, Thomas C. Hall, and H.S. Hartley.

In February 1909, a party of 15 or 20 businessmen and bankers of this Cambridge, headed by Cashier W.S. McCartney and other officers of the Central National Bank, journeyed to Quaker City where they were given a house warming in the handsome new home of the Quaker City National Bank, of which John R. Hall was the president. Judge J.W. Campbell had the B&O train No. 104. leave at 1 PM with a stop at Quaker City. This magnificent building was a monument to the public spiritedness of the officers and directors of the bank. J.F. Orr of Cambridge was the designing architect of the bank. The officers of the Quaker City National Bank were as follows: John R. Hall, president; I.P. Steele, cashier; H.S. Hartley, assistant cashier; and H.B. Garber and Chester Steele, the efficient clerks. The directors were T.M. Johnson, T.C. Hall, Joel Hall, D.C. Goodhart, H.S. Hartley, I.P. Steele, and John R. Hall.

On Wednesday, January 2, 1929, the officers were chosen as follows: Homer S. Hartley, president; Chester H. Steele, vice president; Harry B. Garber, cashier; Garrett M. Hartley, assistant cashier; Blanche Hall and Mabel Arick, bookkeepers. The directors, all of whom were re-elected, were: Homer S. Hartley, Chester H. Steele, Harry B. Garber, Garrett M. Hartley, Fred J. Hall, and W.G. Wolfe. The bank closed the year of 1928 with resources of $2,260,356.23. The surplus and undivided profits were $270,000 in addition to its capital stock of $100,000.

Roy Morris, president of the Quaker City National Bank stands at the vault door where three masked gunmen forced bank personnel while they ransacked teller cages for nearly $6,000 in coins and bills.

On December 3, 1935, in Columbus, Federal Judge Robert R. Nevin sentenced Harry B. Garber, former cashier of the Quaker City National Bank to four months' imprisonment for having falsified bank entries in 1933.

On Thursday, January 28, 1971, three masked gunmen armed with revolvers held up the Quaker City National Bank shortly after it opened at 9 AM and fled with nearly 6,000 in change and bills from tellers' cages. Deputy Sheriff James (Peanut) Carpenter said bank personnel, all women, were herded into the main vault while the robbers, wearing ski masks, scooped packages of coins and bills into a waste basket. A woman who came in to make a deposit was also ushered into the vault. The trio was only moments away from getting what it was really after, the savings and investment money secured in an electrically-timed vault scheduled to open within minutes of the carefully staged robbery. A tall member of the group urged vice president and cashier, Miss Mable Arick, to open the inside vault, but she insisted it was impossible because it was pre-set to open at varying times and she did not know when the timer would release the lock. Meantime, two assistant cashiers, Mrs. Loretta Betts and Mrs. Madeline Long, along with two tellers, Mrs. Kathryn Starr and Mrs. Paula Winland, waited silently in the vault. None were mistreated or threatened, deputies said. A clerk in a grocery store across the street viewed proceedings in the bank and kiddingly remarked to a customer that the "bank was being robbed," but she did not suspect it at the time, she told authorities. Bank President, Roy Morris, a Cambridge attorney, said this was the first hold-up attempt in the history of the bank, due to celebrate its centennial year next Spring. FBI agents from Steubenville, Guernsey County sheriff deputies, and Highway Patrolmen teamed up to launch an investigation. The robbers made their get-away in a late-model gray sedan parked in front of the bank. An insurance broker, apparently suspicious, made a note of the auto tags and gave authorities a description of the car. Later, a man with a farm on the north edge of town, said a second car parked near his farm was used for their escape from the village, home of the Ohio Hills Folk Festival. Village Marshal Harry Lee Smith joined in the investigation. Others from the small, peaceful village nestled in the midst of surrounding hills, filed into the bank to tell what they had observed. One of the bank tellers told authorities she thought she recognized "something" about one of the men. She said the three might had been in the day before to cash a $20 bill.

On April 30, two Monroe County brothers were arrested by the FBI on federal bank robbery charges involving three banks in Eastern Ohio. They were identified by the FBI as Joseph Harold Minder, 35, of Jerusalem and Gary Wayne Minder, 21, of Cameron. Both were being held in the Jefferson County Jail in Steubenville pending appearance Monday before Magistrate Joseph. J. Freedman of Steubenville. Paul Fields, Jr., special agent in charge, said the older of the brothers was charged with robbery of the Quaker City National Bank in Quaker City on January 28 and the robbery of the Bartlett Farmers Bank in Washington County on November 30, 1970. The younger man was charged with the Quaker City robbery and the Freeport State Bank at Freeport last October 23rd. Two men held in an Akron Jail on charges resulting from the three area bank robberies were Alfred Harry Tank, 29, of Cameron and James G. Ball, 25, of Woodsfield. The FBI said the two were arrested after an armed robbery of a co-op at Akron. Loot at the Quaker City Bank was nearly $6,000, that from Freeport about $7,000 and the Bartlett bank loot was about the same amount. Bond of $10,000 was set for each of the Minder brothers.

Official Bank Title(s)

1: The Quaker City National Bank, Quaker City, OH

Bank Note Types Issued

Original Series $5 bank note with pen signatures of J.M. Johnson, Cashier and Isaac W. Hall, President. Courtesy of Lyn Knight Auctions, www.lynknight.com

1882 Brown Back $10 bank note with pen signatures of I.P. Steele, Cashier and John R. Hall, President. Courtesy of Lyn Knight Auctions, www.lynknight.com

1902 Plain Back $20 bank note with pen signatures of Harry B. Garber, Cashier and H.S. Hartley, President. Courtesy of Heritage Auctions, www.ha.com

1929 Type 1 $20 bank note with printed signatures of Harry B. Garber, Cashier and H.S. Hartley, President. Courtesy of Lyn Knight Auctions, www.lynknight.com

A total of $1,938,570 in National Bank Notes was issued by this bank between 1872 and 1996. This consisted of a total of 160,171 notes (138,276 large size and 21,895 small size notes).

This bank issued the following Types and Denominations of bank notes:

Series/Type	Sheet/Denoms	Serial#s	Sheet Comments
Original Series	4x5	1 - 2000
Original Series	3x10-20	1 - 2100
Series 1875	3x10-20	1 - 1912
1882 Brown Back	3x10-20	1 - 8660	$10s with Abnormal Border Variety
1882 Date Back	3x10-20	1 - 2462	$10s with Abnormal Border Variety
1902 Date Back	3x10-20	1 - 3900
1902 Plain Back	3x10-20	3901 - 17435
1929 Type 1	6x10	1 - 2536
1929 Type 1	6x20	1 - 722
1929 Type 2	10	1 - 1562
1929 Type 2	20	1 - 785

Bank Presidents and Cashiers

Bank Presidents and Cashiers during the National Bank Note Era (1872 - 1996):

Presidents:

Cashiers:

Other Bank Note Signers

Harry B. Garber signed notes as Assistant Cashier
There are currently no known Vice President bank note signers for this bank.

Wiki Links

Sources

Quaker City, OH, Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaker_City,_Ohio
Don C. Kelly, National Bank Notes, A Guide with Prices. 6th Edition (Oxford, OH: The Paper Money Institute, 2008).
Dean Oakes and John Hickman, Standard Catalog of National Bank Notes. 2nd Edition (Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 1990).
Banks & Bankers Historical Database (1782-1935), https://spmc.org/bank-note-history-project
Cambridge Jeffersonian, Cambridge, OH, Thu., Apr. 11, 1872.
The Times Recorder, Zanesville, OH, Sat., Jan. 6, 1906.
The Times Recorder, Zanesville, OH, Fri., Feb. 19, 1909.
The Times Recorder, Zanesville, OH, Fri., Jan. 4, 1929.
The Cincinnati Enquirer, Cincinnati, OH, Wed., Dec. 04, 1935.
The Times Recorder, Zanesville, OH, Fri., Jan. 29, 1971.
The Times Recorder, Zanesville, OH, Sun., May 2, 1971.