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Agency History

On August 11, 1910, the Board of Directors of the Farmers and Citizens' Banking Company, of Huron County in Milan, Ohio, met to begin the operations of the newly established bank. The Farmers and Citizens' Banking Company is assumed to have been incorporated under the laws of the state in approximately 1910 and continued its operations until approximately 1940 and 1941 when it joined with the Erie County Bank of Vermilion, Ohio.

Scope and Content

Contained within the remaining records of the bank are an account of the transactions of the Board of Directors; for the minutes cover a time period from 1910-1940 and much of the early correspondence concerns the actions of the Board. Bank correspondence begins in 1910 and continues until 1950, however, it is complete for the years 1911-1917 and 1930-1940. Stock certificates are complete from 1910-1940.

Records documenting the sale of stock, loans, FHA transactions, commercial ventures, sale of bonds, and deposits are incomplete, vague, and would be of little significance to the history of the bank.

Inventory

Box 1

1. Directors Committee's Minutes, August 11, 1910-June 18, 1919
2. Directors Committee's Minutes, August 13, 1919-February 11, 1928
3. Directors Committee's Minutes, March 3, 1928-May 13, 1933; September 1, 1933
4. Directors Committee's Minutes, September 23, 1933-August 2, 1934
5. Directors Committee's Minutes, August 15, 1934-December 21, 1936
6. Executive Committee's Minutes, December 8, 1915-June 18, 1919
7. Finance Committee's Minutes, September 14, 1910-December 1, 1915
8. Oath of Directors, August 11, 1910-February 1, 1936

Box 2: Stock Certificates

1. Numbers 1 - 147, October 22, 1910-June 22, 1914
2. Numbers 148-223, October 26, 1914-September 3, 1932
3. Numbers 1 - 94, September 18, 1933-September 18, 1933
4. Numbers 95-203, September 18, 1933-January 10, 1934
5. Numbers 204-265, April 28, 1934-August 27, 1940

Box 3

1. Stock Ledger, August 2, 1910-May 3, 1911
2. Stock Register Ledger, October 31, 1910-August 19, 1932
3. Records of Shares, January 14, 1935-January 11, 1937
4. Annual Financial Reports of Assets and Liabilities, November 10, 1910-January 10, 1934
5. Consent for Amendment to Change Assets
6. Proxy, January 2-8, December 28, 1912
7. Proxy for Annual Meeting of Shareholders, January 4-14, 1935; January 6-13, 1936
8. Proxy for Annual Meeting of Shareholders, January 4-11, 1937
9. Proxy for Annual Meeting of Shareholders, December 24, 27, 29-30, 1938; January 3-9, 1939
10. Proxy for Special Meeting of Shareholders, December 15, 18, 1939

Box 4

1. Correspondence, January 7, 1910-December 27, 1910
2. Correspondence, January 2, 1911-March 29, 1911
3. Correspondence, April 10, 1911-August 30, 1911
4. Correspondence, September 1, 1911-October 31, 1911
5. Correspondence, November 1, 1911-December 29, 1911
6. Correspondence, January 1, 1912-Feburary 29, 1912
7. Correspondence, March 5, 1912-April 27, 1912
8. Correspondence, May 1, 1912-September 25, 1912
9. Correspondence, October 2, 1912-December 31, 1912
10. Correspondence, January 2, 1913-March 31, 1913
11. Correspondence, April 4, 1913-September 25, 1913
12. Correspondence, October 8, 1913-December 22, 1913

Box 5

1. Correspondence, January 2, 1914-March 28, 1914
2. Correspondence, April 2, 1914-August 25, 1914
3. Correspondence, September 10, 1914-December 31, 1914
4. Correspondence, January 2, 1915-March 25, 1915
5. Correspondence, April 1, 1915-August 28, 1915
6. Correspondence, September 1, 1915-December 7, 1915
7. Correspondence, January 5, 1916-June 30, 1916
8. Correspondence, July 6, 1916-October 31, 1916
9. Correspondence, November 3, 1916-December 30, 1916
10. Correspondence, January 2, 1917-April 30, 1917
11. Correspondence, May 4, 1917-December 19, 1917

Box 6

1. Correspondence, October 26, 1918
2. Correspondence, January 24, 1919-June 10, 1919
3. Correspondence, January 20, 1920-November 21, 1929
4. Correspondence, February 14, 1930-December, 1939
5. Correspondence, January 31, 1940-December 27, 1949
6. Correspondence, January 21, 1950-December 9, 1954
7. Correspondence, n.d.

Box 7: Miscellaneous:

1. Income Tax Returns, March 9, 1938
2. Ledger of Savings and Accounts, October 19, 1928; December 15, 1933
3. Amendments to the Banking Code of the State, June 8, 1937
4. Plan for Obtaining License to Resume Banking Operations, 1933
5. Attorney General's Opinion, April 24, 1937
6. Bank Resolutions, May 1, 1941-January 19, 1943
7. Bank Legal Agreements, January 9, 1911-August 4, 1941
8. Bond Memorandum & Sales, July 1, 1915-February 1, 1917
9. Title of F. Andrew Bick, May 29, 1914
10. Insurance Policies, March 18, 1919-July 1, 1939
11. Application for Loans, June 1, 1919-July 8, 1919
12. Certificate for Making Bank a Mortgagee, February 26, 1935; January 2, 1936
13. Map Showing FHA Regions, January 29, 1935
14. Bond Due Dates, November 7, 1911-September 26, 1912
15. Tax Decisions Concerning Erie County United Bank, October 4, 1915-January 29, 1954
16. Publications of the Erie County United Bank, January 2, 1940-December 31, 1948
17. Thomas A. Edison Memorial Commission; Articles of Incorporation, March 4, 1932
18. Thomas A. Edison Memorial Commission, April 23, 1932-December 9, 1946
19. Erie County Investment Company, March 14, 1919
20. Dawson Wood Works, December 6, 1948
21. Wamajo Hatchery & Chicken Farm, October 31, 1948
22. Milan Brewing Corporation, January 31, 1937
23. Ohio Public Service Company, August 1, 1962
24. Milan Joint High School Commission, January 29, 1916
25. Levie D. Smith, November 13, 1948
26. Mrs. Auson Streck, May 27, 1919-November 23, 1928
27. Individual Ledger Sheets, No. 1
28. Savings Ledger Sheets, No. 1
29. Note Register Sheets, No. 1

Box 8: FHA Contracts and Plans for Houses

1. Plans for Kerner, August 3, 1936
2. Plans for Berezin, August 7,1936
3. Plans for Gerken, September 26, 1936
4. Plans for Spitzer, October 10, 1936
5. Plans for Moehlman, June 1, 1938

Bound Volumes: Ledgers and Registers:

1. Expense Accounts, January 5, 1915-December 30, 1919
2. Expense Accounts, January 2, 1926-August 31, 1931
3. Expense Accounts, September 31, 1931-June 29, 1935
4. Draft Register, May 11, 1922-December 9, 1925
5. Certificate of Deposit Register, September 22, 1910-June 6, 1917
6. Statement Book, January 1, 1915-December 31, 1918
7. Statement Book, January 2, 1923-November 19, 1927
8. Statement Book, November 31, 1927-October 8, 1932
9. Note Register
10. Savings Ledger
11. Individual Ledger

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