Old landmarks and historic personages of Boston (1901)
Drake, Samuel Adams, 1833-1905 · Boston : Little, Brown, and company · leaf 126
d in 1816, and finallydissolved in 1836. The bank originated in the want of moneyto carry on the government. The directors were appointedby the parent bank atPhiladelphia, and the div-idends which the bank de- , clared were made up fromthe business of all thebranches. Under the char-ter of 1816 the… … ITNITED STATES BANK. The removal of the deposits by Gen-eral Jackson affected the Boston branch but little, but it broughtto hght a defaulting ofi&cial. The receiving teller, whose namewas John Fuller, finding discovery inevitable, put forty thousanddollars into his pocket one afternoon and…
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