The New York Trust Company was a large trust and wholesale-banking business that specialized in servicing large industrial accounts. It merged with the Chemical Corn Exchange Bank and eventually the merged entity became Chemical Bank. [1]
The New York Trust Company was a large trust and wholesale-banking business that specialized in servicing large industrial accounts. It merged with the Chemical Corn Exchange Bank and eventually the merged entity became Chemical Bank. [1]
On April 3, 1889, the New York Security and Trust Company received its certificate of authorization and was formed with Charles S. Fairchild as the first president and "original capital" of $1,000,000. [2] Fairchild, a former attorney general of New York under Governors Samuel J. Tilden and Lucius Robinson, was serving as the 38th United States Secretary of the Treasury under President Grover Cleveland immediately before the company's formation. [3] [a]
Fairchild previously was a partner in the Boston Brahmin investment banking firm of Lee, Higginson & Co. [4]
In 1904, [5] the New York Security and Trust Company merged with the Continental Trust Company (which had been organized in 1890) [5] under the New York Security and Trust name, but occupied the offices of Continental Trust in the Blair & Co. Building on Broad Street. [6] The new firm had capital of $3,000,000. [7] Fairchild became chairman of the board of trustees, and the president of Continental, Otto T. Bannard, [8] became president of the new entity, which was renamed the New York Trust Company the following year, effective March 1, 1905. [9]
In January 1916, Mortimer N. Buckner, who had worked with Bannard at Continental since 1901, succeeded Bannard as president of the New York Trust Company, while Bannard assumed the newly created position of chairman of the board and of the executive committee. [10]
In December 1920, it was announced that the New York Trust Company, which was based at 24 Broad Street, would merge with Liberty National Bank of New York. [11] Liberty, which had recently absorbed the Scandinavian Trust Company, [12] and was based out of the Equitable Building, had been formed in 1891. After the merger, Buckner succeeded Bannard as chairman of the board, and Harvey Dow Gibson, the former president of Liberty, became president of the New York Trust Company. Past presidents of Liberty included such prominent bankers as Henry P. Davison, Thomas Cochran, and Seward Prosser. The merged bank had capital of $10,000,000 and "undivided profits and surplus of nearly $20,000,000." [11] It occupied offices that had been prepared for Liberty in the American Surety Company Building at 100 Broadway. [11] [b]
In 1921, the United States Supreme Court heard arguments on Argued April 25 and 26, 1921 in New York Trust Co. v. Eisner, [14] a case which involved the New York Trust Company as executors of the will of J. H. Purdy against M. Eisner. Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. delivered the opinion of the court on May 16, 1921, where the judgment was affirmed with costs. [15]
In 1929, Artemus L. Gates succeeded Gibson as president of New York Trust, becoming "the youngest president of a large downtown New York bank". [16] The 34 year old Gates (who was the son-in-law of the late Henry P. Davison, a former Liberty National Bank president) had started his career in 1919 with Liberty National Bank, going to New York Trust after the 1920 merger and becoming a vice president in 1926. Gates became chairman of the executive committee and Buckner remained chairman of the board of trustees. [16]
As of June 30, 1941, New York Trust reported total assets of $694,659,000. [17] In 1941, John E. Bierwith succeeded Gates as president of New York Trust. [18] Gates resigned the presidency after being appointed the Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Aeronautics by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. [19]
In 1949, the New York Trust Company acquired the Fulton Trust Company of New York under the terms of a cash merger agreement involving a purchase price of $5,000,000 (i.e. $250 a share for 20,000 shares of Fulton Trust). [20] Bierwith remained president of New York Trust, which had assets of $670,836,167, and Arthur J. Morris, the president of Fulton Trust (which had assets of $36,158,041), became a vice president of the new firm. [21] Charles S. McVeigh, the chairman of Fulton Trust, and three other Fulton Trust trustees, namely Stephen C. Clark, Charles J. Nourse, and Walter N. Stillman, were added to the board of New York Trust, increasing it from eighteen member to twenty-two. [22]
In late 1949, Bierwith left New York Trust to assume the presidency of the National Distillers Products Corporation and was succeeded by Charles J. Stewart, who had been with New York Trust since 1930. [23] Hulbert Aldrich served as director and president of the company from 1950 through 1959. [24]
In 1952, the New York Trust Company management completed a merger deal with the Manufacturers Trust Company involving an exchange of 1 2/3 shares of Manufacturers Trust for each share of New York Trust. New York Trust president Charles J. Stewart was to have become president of Manufacturers Trust in the proposed merger, but New York Trust shareholders protested the arrangement as "not sufficiently rewarding and the agreement was dissolved." [25] After the deal ended, Stewart resigned and shortly afterward and became a general partner of the investment bank Lazard Frères & Company. In 1959, however, Stewart left Lazard Frères to become president of Manufacturers Trust Company, as had been proposed in 1952. [26]
By 1958, the banks largest shareholder was a holding company representing the Henry Phipps estate. [25]
In 1959, the New York Trust Company, which was largely a wholesale institution, merged with the Chemical Corn Exchange Bank, [1] largely a "retail" institution, creating the Chemical Bank New York Trust Company, the third largest bank in New York City and the fourth largest in the nation. [25] Before the merger, New York Trust, with seven offices, was the ninth largest in New York and Chemical Corn, with ninety-four offices, was the fourth largest. [25] Chemical Corn's chairman and president, Harold H. Helm, remained in those roles post merger, while New York Trust's chairman, Adrian M. Massie, became chairman of the trust committee and general supervisor of the combined trust departments. New York Trust's president, Hulbert S. Aldrich, [27] became vice chairman of the board along with Gilbert H. Perkins, who held the post at Chemical Corn. [25]
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Banker Harold Holmes Helm, 58, expansion-minded chairman of Manhattan's Chemical Corn Exchange Bank, long had his "loving eye" on the New York Trust Co. ... Last week Helm proposed a merger, swapping 1¾ shares of Chemical Corn stock for one share of New ...
A proposal to merge the New York Trust Company and the Chemical Corn Exchange Bank has been approved by directors of both institutions, it was announced last night.
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