Banks and Bankers of Concord.
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��The deposits iu September of the current 3'ear amounted to §886,690.72, while the surplus, guaranty fund, and premium 6n stocks and bonds aggre- gated the resources of the bank to $1,010,178.38.
Hon. John Kimball, the treasurer, has received, in an earlier volume of the Granite Monthly, a brief bio- graphical sketch.
THE LOAN AND TRUST SAVINGS BANK
was incorporated iu June, 1872, by J. Everett Sargent, Asa Fowler, Geo. G. Fogg, William Butterfield, John V. Barron, James Peverly, Nathaniel White, James S. Norris, Calvin Howe, and others. Hon. J. Everett Sargent was elected president at the first meet- ing of the bank, and has held the of- fice ever since. John V. Barron, the first treasurer, was succeeded in 1878 by George A. Fernald ; in 1885, by John F. Jones.
The total resources of the bank at present amount to $1,933,205.29, of which sum SI, 826, 956. 47 is due to depositors, leaving a surplus of §111,248.82.
The present trustees are J. Everett Sargent, James S. Norris, Lewis Downing, Jr., John F. Jones, Silas Curtis, Howard A. Dodge, John H. Barron, Leander W. Cogswell, Paul R. Holdeu, Howard L. Porter, John M. Mitchell, and William H. Allison.
A sketch of Hon. J. Everett Sar- gent appeared in Volume III of the Granite Monthly.
john f. jones,
the treasurer, son of Jonathan and Sarah (Currier) Jones, was born in Hopkinton, March 31, 1835 ; was ed-
��ucated at the Hopkinton academy ; married October 23, 1861, Maria H. Barnard, and has two sous. He went into business for himself in 1861 in the village of Contoocook, retiring iu 1869. Siuce then he has carried on his farm of two hundred acres iu West Hopkinton, and been much en- gaged in business in Hopkinton and adjoining towns. He was for several years town-clerk and treasurer of Hopkinton ; a member of the last con- stitutioual convention ; a director of the First National Bank of Hillsbor- ough ; a director of the National State Capital Bank of Concord ; a trustee of the Loau and Trust Savings Bauk ; treasurer of the Antiquarian Societ}' of Contoocook since its organization ; treasurer of Merrimack county ; treas- urer of the New Hampshire Press As- sociation ; treasurer of the Woodsum Steamboat Company ; treasurer of the Manufacturers and Merchants' Mu- tual Fire Insurance Company of Con- cord .
Mr. Jones is a Mason, a member of Aurora Lodge, Woods Chapter, and Mount Horeb Commandery. He is also au Odd Fellow, a Democrat, and a member of the First Baptist church of Hopkinton.
He was appointed treasurer of the Loau and Trust Savings Bank in De- (iember, 1885.
His friends say that he is a very able financier, systematic, of large business capacity, successful, widely known, and highly respected.
It would not be fitting in writing up the banks of Concord to omit private banking establishments. The first to be considered, by reason of seniority, is the firm of
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