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280 HISTORY OF ERIE COUNTY
however, clearly proved that the person was an expert criminal, and not a
'' minister of the gospel," as he had proclaimed himself.
The Citizens National Bank was incorporated on the 20th of February,
1884. The first board of directors of the Citizens Bank comprised George
A. Marsh, Homer Goodwin, Truman B. Taylor, Albert E. MerriH, William
Schade, Philip Graefe, George Feick, Gustavus Graham and Joseph Kronthal.
The officers were: President, A. E. Merrill; vice president, Gustavus
Graham; cashier, Henry Graefe. The original capital stock of the
concern was authorized at $300,000. Within the last few years it has
remodeled and beautified its building and IIOAV has one of the most
modern buildings in Northern Ohio. It is now an Ohio corporation, as
The Citizens Banking Company, Avith Henry Graefe, president; William
Graefe, vice president; Charles II. Zimmerman, cashier; C. J. Strobel,
assistant cashier, and William Schoenamann, second assistant cashier.
The Sandusky Savings Bank Company began business in the year 1888
Avith a capital stock of $50,000. Its place of business AA'as in the room on
Washington Square noAV occupied by the Savings & Loan Company. Its
president Avas George Barney; vice president, AndreAv Zerbe; F. L. Felch,
cashier, and George Barney, AndreAv Zerbe, I. T. Davis, D. L. C. Ransom,
C. H. RockAvell, Fred Ohlemacher, John Mackey and F. L. Felch, directors.
The bank went down in the panic of 1893, paying its depositors,
and the loss falling on the stockholders.
The American Banking & Trust Company began business in 1900 in
the room in the Kingsbury Block noAV occupied by Montgomery's jeAvelry
store. It now occupies the building at the northwest corner of Columbus
Avenue and Market Street recently vacated by The Third National Exchange
Bank. Its president is John Giedeman; vice presidents, Jacob A.
Biehl and F. F. Lehman; cashier, IT. W. Parsons, and assistant cashier,
A. H. Biehl. It has done a thriving business since its organization.
The Commercial National Bank opened its doors on the nortlnvest
corner of Columbus Avenue and Market Street on August 3, 1903. It
is the result of the .combination of the Moss National Bank and Second
National Bank. Its president is Mozart Gallup; vice president, Gustavus
Graham; cashier, William L. Allendorf; assistant cashier, Paul II. SproAv.
It has a capital stock of $150,000,and a surplus of $100,000.
On May 1, 1913, the Third National Exchange Bank of Sandusky,
Ohio, removed from its home at the corner of Columbus Avenue and
Market Street, Avhich it had occupied during its entire history, to its
ne\v building on the south side of Market Street, Avhere it is at present.
The bank has ahvays commanded the confidence of the business community
and in its new home has increased its business and taken a
stronger hold. Its president is F. P. Zollinger; vice president, C. F.
Schoepfle; cashier, John Quinn; assistant cashiers, William F. Zimmerman
and E. B. Gangware.