Banker Data Challenge by State

Banker Information page for John Jay Knox

SPMC Bank Note History Project - Banker Data Challenge by State

See how your favorite State is doing in the Banker Data Challenge and help us out with gathering basic banker bio data (full name and birth/death dates) for the SPMC Banks & Bankers Database!

We already have almost all of the bankers who would have been signing National bank notes set up in the database (currently 65,000+ bankers). But most of those bankers are just in there with their first & middle initials, which makes it hard to identify them. So, we're trying to get basic info (full name and birth/death dates) into the database for as many of these bankers as we can. This information helps us tie together multi-bank (and multi-state) bankers and also provides a good starting point for further biographical research on these bankers.

How to Submit Basic Banker Bio Data

The easiest way to help us out with gathering basic banker bio data (full name and birth/death dates) is to locate the banker's FindAGrave.com page (or Wikipedia page if a famous person) and then submit that link to the Banks & Bankers Database. This link can easily be submitted when viewing that banker's Banker Information page in the Database.

To view a banker's Banker Information page, first you need to login to the Banks & Bankers Database from the SPMC.org website. Here is a link to the Bank Note History Project home page with instructions on how to get logged into the Banks & Bankers Database.

Once you are logged into the Banks & Bankers Database, the quickest way to get to a bank officer is to click on the Officer Search button in the upper left corner. Then, on the Bank Officer Search page, just type in the charter number for the bank your banker was associated with and click on the Search button to bring up a list of the bank officers for that bank. Find the banker in the list and click on the banker's name to bring up the Banker Information page. In the Comments, Links & Sources section, you will see instructions on how to submit a BioLink for that banker. See the screenshot to the right for an example of a Banker Information page. (Click on the image to enlarge it).

After a BioLink has been submitted for a banker, a database administrator will see that, and update the banker's bio info based on the link. The Banker Data Stats by State table below will be regularly updated with the latest banker counts. Thanks for helping us out!

Current Banker Data Stats by State

In the table below, the BankerBios column shows the number of bankers with basic bio info entered for them. The Total Bankers column is the number of bankers in the database for that state (including all Presidents & Cashiers, as well as VPs and Asst Cashiers that are known to have signed bank notes). The BankerPhotos column shows the number of bankers that have had their photo uploaded. This table will be updated regularly.

The table can be sorted based on any of the columns. Just click on the column header of the column you want to sort by. Clicking again on the column header will toggle thru the three sort order options. The arrow(s) on the sort column indicate the current sort order: Both-Arrows (Up & Down) is Original/Default sort order, Up-Arrow is Ascending, Down-Arrow is Descending.

Current Banker Data Challenge Stats (August 29, 2024)

State	BankerBios	PctDoneBios	Total Bankers	BankerPhotos	PctDonePhotos
Pennsylvania	4529	71.3	6353	830	13.1
Iowa	2714	97.4	2786	391	14
Minnesota	1328	57.7	2300	367	16
New York	1083	21.9	4935	452	9.2
Tennessee	987	97.9	1008	175	17.4
Nebraska	978	55.3	1767	446	25.2
Ohio	889	26.2	3395	383	11.3
Maryland	830	100	830	87	10.5
Oklahoma	806	32.2	2502	218	8.7
Illinois	743	20.1	3694	288	7.8
Alabama	722	96.3	750	35	4.7
Massachusetts	703	31.6	2227	307	13.8
Texas	690	15.3	4507	300	6.7
Missouri	550	42.5	1295	126	9.7
Oregon	507	72.5	699	42	6
Washington	421	52.4	803	108	13.4
New Jersey	414	22.8	1813	85	4.7
Indiana	403	19.2	2097	136	6.5
Wisconsin	401	32.2	1245	171	13.7
Rhode Island	401	96.6	415	122	29.4
Virginia	353	32.7	1081	57	5.3
California	346	18.1	1909	243	12.7
Connecticut	336	41.9	802	171	21.3
South Dakota	313	36	869	80	9.2
Wyoming	231	90.6	255	88	34.5
Maine	226	31.1	726	67	9.2
Michigan	226	17.2	1311	147	11.2
Kansas	224	10.7	2087	104	5
North Carolina	207	35	591	53	9
North Dakota	186	17.4	1071	110	10.3
Vermont	186	34.5	539	80	14.8
Kentucky	184	14.7	1249	63	5
New Hampshire	181	34.3	528	91	17.2
Utah	173	96.6	179	109	60.9
Idaho	147	33.9	434	79	18.2
West Virginia	139	16.8	829	69	8.3
Georgia	130	15.6	835	33	4
District of Columbia	122	92.4	132	22	16.7
South Carolina	114	27.9	408	52	12.7
Colorado	113	10.9	1041	39	3.7
Arkansas	86	16.5	520	52	10
Mississippi	81	27.8	291	18	6.2
Florida	72	13.6	530	37	7
Montana	61	10.3	590	43	7.3
New Mexico	60	16.8	357	9	2.5
Delaware	47	24.7	190	3	1.6
Arizona	32	18.5	173	21	12.1
Louisiana	25	6.8	369	18	4.9
Nevada	15	18.5	81	11	13.6
Hawaii	13	72.2	18	8	44.4
Alaska	13	54.2	24	1	4.2

All States	BankerBios	PctDoneBios	Total Bankers	BankerPhotos	PctDonePhotos
Totals	24743	37.8	65446	7047	10.8

Acknowledgments

• Thanks to the following people who have helped with Banker Bio information for the SPMC Banks & Bankers Database:

Mark Anderson, Fred Benson, Frank Clark, Greg Culpepper, Dan Dieter, Patrick Doughney, Julie Drengson, Mark Drengson, Jim Ehrhardt, Manning Garrett, Loren Gatch, Todd Gylsen, Matt Hansen, Shawn Hewitt, Derek Higgins, David Hollander, Peter Huntoon, Glen Jorde, Karl Kabelac, Sullivan Labno, William Lynch, Fred Maples, Robert Pfaff, Cord Polen, Jay Prestin, Richard Radick, Cody Regennitter, Michael Saharian, Tim Sanda, Gil Sem, Adam Stroup, Steve Sweeney, Andy Timmerman, Cory Williams.