FIRST NATIONAL BANK of SEATTLE Stock 1884 Wash. Territory. G.W. Harris President

Description

The First National Bank of Seattle. Stock issued July 14, 1884 at Seattle, Washington. Incorporated September 4, 1882 in the Territory of Washington
. Gold embossed seal lower left. Certificate
No. 33
was issued to
Samuel S. Gordon
for 20 shares of capital stock (0 per share). Capital of
0,000
. Hand signed by bank
president George W. Harris
and secretary. Certificate is about 8” x 10.5.” Black print on cream-colored paper. Vignette with allegorical woman and eagle next to agriculture, train beyond.
The First National Bank of Seattle was chartered under the National Bank Act in 1882. The 1880s were a period of robust growth for Seattle when the population grew 1,200 percent, from 3,500 to over 42,000. In 1882 a private bank, George W. Harris and Company, was formed. Several months after the bank opened, Harris obtained a national charter and the bank was renamed First National Bank of Seattle. The following year, Puget Sound National Bank was founded. These two banks, along with Dexter Horton and Company, would form the nucleus of what would eventually become Seafirst Bank. George W. Harris was the first president of the bank and was also the founder of the George W. Harris & Company which was a private banking company. (George W. Harris was also one of the founders of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer in 1881 along with Thomas Prosch and Samuel L. Crawford and John Leary.)
I
n 1929, the First National Bank of Seattle company merged with the First Seattle Dexter Horton National Bank, and in 1931 adopted the original name First National Bank of Seattle. In 1935, the company changed its name to Seattle-First National Bank
.
Condition:  Very Fine+
, light folds, minor creasing, no tears, minor signs of wear/handling/toning (see photos),
punch cancelled.
Printer:
A. Gast & Co., St. Louis, Missouri.
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