The National City Bank of New York

National City Bank of New York, The
      1812 Established City Bank of New York
      1865 Convert Federal National City Bank of New York
   05/01/1897 Acquire By Merger Third National Bank of the City of New York
   06/01/1921 Acquire By Merger Commercial Exchange National Bank of New York
   12/01/1921 Acquire By Merger Second National Bank of the City of New York
   06/01/1926 Acquire By Merger Peoples Trust Company of Bklyn N.A. of New York
   06/01/1929 Acquire By Merger Farmers' Loan State Bank
      1931 Acquire By Merger Long Island National Bank of New York
   11/01/1931 Acquire By Merger Bank of America National Association
   03/01/1955 Name Change To First National City Bank of New York
   01/01/1962 Name Change To First National City Bank
   01/01/1963 Acquire By Merger First National City Trust Company
      1976 Name Change To Citibank, N.A.
   01/01/1976 Acquire By Merger Citibank (Suffolk), N.A.
   01/01/1976 Acquire By Merger Citibank (Mid-Hudson), N.A.
   07/17/2001 Acquire By Merger European American Bank
   08/30/2003 Acquire By Merger Citibank (New York State)

The first president of the bank was Samuel Osgood, and G.B. Vroom was its first cashier. Moses Taylor had been a director since 1837, and was elected President of the bank about 1856, which he remained until his death in 1882. His son-in-law, Percy R. Pyne, succeeded him. When Pyne died in 1891 [?], James Stillman succeeded him. (The Custom House Sold For $3,265,000. New York Times, Jul. 4, 1899.)

The National City Bank of New York, 1870

President, Moses Taylor; Cashier, Benjamin Cartwright; Notary Public, Pierre Wildey. Directors: Moses Taylor, John J. Cisco, Tarrant Putnam, George Greer, L.A. Von Hoffman, Henry Parish, Samuel Sloan, William Walter Phelps, Percy R. Pyne. (The National Banks of New York. Bankers' Magazine and Statistical Register, Apr. 1870.)

Percy R. Pyne

Percy Rivington Pyne (1820-1895) was born in England and came to the U.S. in 1835. He joined Moses Taylor & Co. as a clerk, and became a partner from 1842 until 1887. He married Moses Taylor's oldest daughter, Albertina, in 1855, and succeeded Taylor as President of the National City Bank [1882-1891]. He was Vice President of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad, and a director of the Farmers' Loan and Trust Company, the Central Trust Company of New York, the Chicago and Northwestern Railway Company, the Western Union Telegraph Company, and other companies. He was Vice President of St. Luke's Hospital, and a trustee of the Bellevue Medical School. (The Obituary Record. New York Times, Feb. 16, 1895.) He was on the board of managers of St. Luke's Hospital. Fellow managers included his son, Moses Taylor Pyne; Samuel D. Babcock, George M. Miller and his son, Hoffman Miller; J. Pierpont Morgan Jr.; and Gustav H. Schwab; also Chauncey M. Depew and Cornelius Vanderbilt. (St. Luke's Hospital Managers. New York Times, Oct. 20, 1894.) He was a trustee of the National City Bank from at least 1870 until his death.

According to Cullman family lore, Moses Taylor Pyne financed a key deal for Joseph Cullman Sr. when the McKinley Tariff Act of 1890 took effect. Cullman had made a deposit on a stockpile of hundreds of thousands of pounds of Sumatra leaf in Amsterdam, and needed an additional $3 million to finish paying for it. The National City Bank could legally loan only $500,000, and the additional $2.5 million was a personal loan from its president. (Can't Take It With You: The Art of Making and Giving Money. By Lewis Cullman. John Wiley & Sons, 2004, p. 32.)

The National City Bank of New York, 1892

James Stillman President; D. Palmer, Cashier. Directors: James Stillman, Percy R. Pyne, Samuel Sloan, George W. Campbell, Lawrence Turnure, Roswell G. Rolston, William Walter Phelps, Cleveland H. Dodge, Henry A.C. Taylor. (Display Ad 35. New York Times, Jan. 17, 1892 p. 14.)

The National City Bank of New York, 1897

In 1897, the National City Bank absorbed the Third National Bank. Its president, A. Barton Hepburn, became a vice president of the National City Bank. President, James Stillman; Cashier, George S. Whitson; Notary, H.M. Kilborn. Principal directors: Samuel Sloan, Lawrence Turnure, Rosewell G. Rolston, Clevelan H. Dodge, William Rockefeller, H. Walter Webb, Francis M. Bacon, M. Taylor Pyne, and Robert Bacon. (National Banks Merge. New York Times, May 21, 1897.)

William Avery Rockefeller Jr.

William Avery Rockefeller Jr. (1841-1922) was the younger brother of John D. Rockefeller and co-founder of the Standard Oil Company. He married Almira Geraldine Goodsell. His son, William Goodsell Rockefeller (1870-1922) married Elsie Stillman, daughter of National City Bank president James Stillman, and were the parents of William Avery Rockefeller (1896-1973), Godfrey Stillman Rockefeller (1899-1983), James Stillman Rockefeller (1902-2004), John Sterling Rockefeller (1904-1988), and Almira Geraldine Rockefeller (1907- ). (William Goodsell Rockefeller, B.A. 1892. Bulletin of Yale University. Obituary Record of Yale Graduates 1922-1923, pp. 173-174.) Another son, Percy Avery Rockefeller (1878-1934), was Skull & Bones 1900.

The National City Bank of New York, 1898-99

Directors: Samuel Sloan, Lawrence Turnure, Rosewell G. Rolston, Cleveland H. Dodge, Henry A.C. Taylor, William Rockefeller, H. Walter Webb, Francis M. Bacon, M. Taylor Pyne, William Douglas Sloane, Robert Bacon, James Stillman, re-elected, and John A. McCall, William S. Bogert, and James A. Stillman. (Annual Bank Elections. New York Times, Jan. 12, 1898.) In 1899, its principal directors were Samuel Sloan, also First Vice President, Chairman of the Delaware Western and Lackawanna Railroad; William Rockefeller, President of the Standard Oil Company; Henry O. Havemeyer, President of the American Sugar Refining Company; Jacob H. Schiff of Kuhn, Loeb & Company; Robert Bacon, of J.P. Morgan & Co.; Charles S. Fairchild, ex-Secretary of the U.S. Treasury; William Douglas Sloane of W. & J. Sloane & Co., a brother-in-law of Cornelius and William K. Vanderbilt; Moses Taylor Pyne, of the Moses Taylor and Percy R. Pyne estates; John A. McCall, President of the New York Life Insurance Company; Cleveland H. Dodge of Phelps, Dodge & Co.;Stephen S. Palmer, President of the New Jersey Zinc Company; Henry A.C. Taylor, capitalist; Francis M. Bacon of Bacon & Co.; James H. Post of B.H. Howell, Son & Co.; John W. Sterling of Shearman & Sterling, lawyers; and H. Walter Webb, ex-Third Vice President of the New York Central Railroad. Vice President A.G. Loomis resigned from the Aetna National Bank in Hartford to replace A. Barton Hepburn. James A. Stillman, the son of James Stillman, became assistant cashier. (The Custom House Sold For $3,265,000. New York Times, Jul. 4, 1899.)

The National City Bank of New York, 1900-02

Director Lawrence Turnure died. New directors were E.H. Harriman, President of the Chicago & Alton Railroad and involved with other railroad interests; Moses Taylor; A.G. Loomis; and W.S. Bogert, President Stillman's private secretary. Re-elected directors were F.N. Bacon, Robert Bacon, Cleveland H. Dodge, Charles S. Fairchild, Henry O. Havemeyer, John A. McCall, Stephen S. Palmer, James H. Post, M. Taylor Pyne, William Rockefeller, John W. Sterling, Jacob H. Schiff, James Stillman, William Douglas Sloane, Samuel Sloan, Henry A.C. Taylor, and H. Walter Webb. (Elections of the Banks. New York Times, Jan. 10, 1900.) They were all re-elected in 1901. (National and State Banks Elect Directors. New York Times, Jan. 9, 1901.) George W. Perkins was elected in 1902, replacing Bogert. (Bank Board Elections. New York Times, Jan. 15, 1902.)

The National City Bank of New York, 1906

Directors: Francis N. Bacon, Cleveland H. Dodge, Charles S. Fairchild, Henry C. Frick, Edward H. Harriman, Henry O. Havemeyer, John A. McCall, Cyrus H. McCormick, Edwin S. Marston, Stephen S. Palmer, George W. Perkins, James H. Post, M. Taylor Pyne, William Rockefeller, John W. Sterling, Jacob H. Schiff, James Stillman, James A. Stillman, William Douglas Sloane, Samuel Sloan, Henry A.C. Taylor, Moses Taylor, P.A. Valentine, G.G. Whitson. (Many Bank Changes Result of Elections. New York Times, Jan. 10, 1906.)

William S. Kies

William S. Kies (University of Wisconsin 1899) was a former trial attorney for the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad. "After a term as State Treasurer of Illinois, he joined the National City Bank in 1913 to organize its foreign trade department, working on the organization of branches in South America. In 1915 he was named a vice president. Three years later he resigned to become Vice President of American International Corporation." He was a charter director of the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation [1925] and a vice president of the University of Wisconsin Foundation. (William S. Kies, 72, Financier, Is Dead. New York Times, Feb. 3, 1950.) In 1916, the National City Bank announced that it would train about 100 undergraduates of U.S. colleges to represent the bank abroad, including Harvard, Yale, Princeton, New York University, Columbia, Cornell, and the University of Pennsylvania, and possibly including the University of Chicago, Northwestern University, and the Universities of Wisconsin, Michigan, Minnesota and Illinois. Vice presidents Samuel McRoberts, W.S. Kies and J.H. Perkins, and director of efficiency F.C. Schwedtman were involved. (Bank to Train 100 For Foreign Trade. New York Times, Mar. 1, 1916.) Dean William A. Scott of the UW School of Commerce and the other deans approved the plan. (Favor City Bank Plan. New York Times, Mar. 2, 1916.) His daughter Margaret married Dr. William Travis Gibb Jr., a Cornell graduate, and Virginia Vanderlip was one of her attendants. (Other Weddings. New York Times, Oct. 5, 1930.) His son, John H. Kies, was connected with Lord & Thomas in Chicago. (Margaret Hudson to be Bride Aug. 21. New York Times, Aug. 4, 1935.) In 1936, WARF sponsored the creation of the Women's Field Army of the American Society for the Control of Cancer in the state of Wisconsin.

The National City Bank of New York, 1926

Cleveland E. Dodge was elected a director to succeed his late father, Cleveland H. Dodge; also John D. Ryan, Chairman of the Board of the Anaconda Copper Mining Company. "He was President of the Anaconda Copper Mining Company from 1903 to 1918, when he was made chairman of the board. During the war he was Second Assistant Secretary of War and was director of the Air Service in 1918. He was a member of the War Council of the American Red Cross in 1917 and 1918 and has been a member of the Central Committee of that organization since 1918. He is not only chairman of the Anaconda Company, but is also a director of the Chile Copper Company, the American Brass Company, the Brooklyn Edison Company and the Consolidated Gas Company of New York, a trustee of the Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank, President of the Montana Power Company and President of the United Metals Selling Company. Mr. Dodge is a Vice President of the Phelps-Dodge Corporation, a trustee of the Bank of New York and Trust Company and a director of the Atlantic Mutual Insurance Company, the North Star Mines Company, the Old Dominion Company, the Phelps-Dodge Mercantile Company and the Stag Canon Fuel Company." Buckley was President of the Crowell Publishing Company and publisher of The Chicago Herald Examiner. (J.D. Ryan on Board of National City. New York Times, Jun. 30, 1926.) Ryan helped form the Tobacco Products Corporation in 1912, and had been a director of the Guaranty Trust Company.

The National City Bank of New York, 1929

In 1929, the National City Bank and its investment subsidiary, the National City Company, merged with the Farmers Loan and Trust Company. Farmers kept its state charter. Charles E. Mitchell, president of the National City Bank since 1921, became chairman of the bank, the investment company and the trust. Mitchell, the presidents of the three companies and five other men became the executive committee for the overall company. Gordon S. Rentschler became president of the National City Bank, and Hugh B. Baker, a vice president of the National City, became president of the investment company. ($2,000,000,000 Deal Links National City and Farmers' Loan. New York Times, Apr. 2, 1929.) Later that year, it merged with the Corn Exchange Bank Charles E. Mitchell held a clerical position at Western Electric until he joined the Trust Company of America in 1906. He founded his own investment firm, C.E. Mitchell & Co., a few years later. He liquidated his firm to become a vice president of the National City Company. Directors of the Corn Exchange Bank: Clarence H. Kelsey, William R. Stewart, William H. Nichols, Charles W. McCutcheon, Andrew Mills, Philip Lehman, Robert A. Drysdale, Warren B. Nash, D. Schnakenberg, Dunham B. Sherer, A.R. Graustein, C.W. Nichols, Arthur A. Fowler, Robert Lehman, George Doubleday, Francis D. Bartow, Richard Whitney, Ethelbert Ide Low, Henry A. Patten, and Ralph Peters Jr. Directors of the National City Bank: Hugh B. Baker, Sosthenes Behn, Harry S. Black, Nicholas F. Brady, Guy Cary, Edward A. Deeds, Cleveland E. Dodge, Fred J. Fisher, Philip A.S. Franklin, John A. Garver, Joseph P. Grace, Cyrus H. McCormick, Gerrish H. Milliken, Charles E. Mitchell, Charles A. Peabody, James H. Perkins, James H. Post, Percy R. Pyne, Gordon S. Rentschler, Percy A. Rockefeller, John D. Ryan, William A. Simonson, Robert W. Stewart, James A. Stillman, Eric P. Swenson, and Beekman Winthrop. (National City Unites With Corn Exchange; Forms Largest Bank. New York Times, Sep. 20, 1929.)

Clarence H. Kelsey, Skull & Bones 1878

Clarence Hill Kelsey (1856-1930) helped organize the Title Guarantee & Trust Company in 1882, and was its president from 1892 to 1923, and its chairman until his death. In 1892, he helped organize the Bond & Mortgage Guarantee Company, where he was second vice president and general manager until 1925 and then chairman. He was vice president of City Real Estate since 1895; president and director of Yale Building Company and director of Westchester Title & Mortgage Guaranty Company since 1902; Lincoln Trust Company, Corn Exchange Bank & Trust Company (since 1892), Corn Products Refining Company (since 1909), Madison Safe Deposit Company, Realty Associates, Commercial Trust Company of Jersey City, Home Insurance Company (since 1910), United States Life Insurance Company (since 1895), Mechanics & Metals Bank, Thompson-Starrett Company (building construction, since 1903), Southern Pacific Railroad (until "recently"), and Consolidated Gas Company. He was a member of the council of New York University since 1903, and a trustee of the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute since 1909, where he suceeded his classmate, William H. Taft, as chairman in 1930. (Bulletin of Yale University. Obituary Record of Graduates of Yale University Deceased during the Year 1929-1930, pp. 64-66.)

The National City Bank of New York, 1933-34

Charles E. Mitchell and Hugh B. Baker resigned after a Congressional investigation of loans to its officers, and James H. Perkins became chairman and Gordon S. Rentschler chief operating executive of the bank. (Perkins New Head of National City. New York Times, Feb. 28, 1933.) The National City Company sold stock in Boeing Aircraft, the Pratt & Whitney Company, and Chance Vought that sold for $97 on the market to preferred investors for $30. They included H.B. Baker, Bernard M. Baruch, Gordon S. Rentschler, Charles E. Mitchell, Sosthenes Behn, Guy Cary, Percy Rockefeller, James A. Stillman and Col. R.W. Stewart. Rentschler's brother also profited. The companies were merged into United Aircraft. (Admits Big Profit in Aircraft Stock. New York Times, Feb. 2, 1934.)

W. Randolph Burgess

Warren Randolph Burgess was vice president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York since 1930, when he resiigned to become vice chairman of the National City Bank. Chairman James H. Perkins said he had been elected at the suggestion of Gordon S. Rentschler and himself. Burgess joined the statistics branch of the Fed in 1920. He was born in Newport, R.I. in 1889, and graduated from Brown University in 1912, and did post-graduate work at McGill and Columbia. He was president of the American Statistical Association in 1937, and a trustee of Robert College, Teachers College, and Brown University. (W.R. Burgess Quits Reserve Bank Post. New York Times, Sep. 14, 1938.) Burgess was on the merger committee of the Beekman Street Hospital, headed by Howard S. Cullman. (Hospital Merger Is Reported Near. New York Times, Oct. 1, 1938.) He was Vice Chairman of the National City Bank and a director of the Farmers Loan and Trust since at least 1940, when he was elected a trustee of the Mutual Life Insurance Company. (Elected By Mutual Life. New York Times, Nov. 28, 1940.) He was elected a member of the Corporation of the Presbyterian Hospital in the City of New York. (Three in Hospital Corporation. New York Times, Jun. 12, 1945.) He was elected a director of IT&T in 1947. (7 New Directors Elected by I.T. & T. New York Times, Dec. 30, 1947.) He became Chairman of the Farmers in 1948. (Burgess Gets Bank Post. New York Times, Mar. 11, 1948.) He was a trustee of the Health Insurance Plan of New York in 1948, of which Mrs. Albert D. Lasker was secretary. (Health Plan Pays $2,373,938 in Year. New York Times, May 19, 1948.) His first wife, May Ayres, was the sister of Leonard P. Ayres of the Cleveland Trust Company. She was in charge of a team of statisticians in the War Department from 1913 to 1920. In the late 1920s and early 30s, she was director of the commission that graded nursing schools in New York. (Mrs. W.R. Burgess, A Nursing Expert. New York Times, Jul. 16, 1953.) He was a director of International Telephone and Telegraph until 1953, when he resigned to become a special deputy of the Secretary of the Treasury. (City Bank Farmers Head Added to I.T. & T. Board. New York Times, Jan. 21, 1953.) Burgess was a member of President Eisenhower's Arden House group of policy makers. (Arden House Aids in Guiding Nation. By Charles Grutzner. New York Times, Sep. 7, 1953.) He was a trustee of the Carnegie Corporation, along with John W. Gardner, Devereux C. Josephs, Morris Hadley [S&B 1916], and Arthur W. Page. (Fund's Trustees Active in Policy. New York Times, Jul. 12, 1954.) He married Mrs. Arthur Woods, widow of the New York City Police Commissioner, the former Helen Morgan Hamilton. She was a great-great granddaughter of Alexander Hamilton and a niece of J. Pierpont Morgan. In 1949, she was director of public liaison of the Economic Cooperation Administration, and completed a survey for the Fund for Adult Education of the Ford Foundation. (W. Randolph Burgess, Treasury Officer, Will Marry Mrs. Arthur Woods March 5. New York Times, Feb. 22, 1955.) In 1965, he was a member of "Republicans for Progress," a "progressive" splinter group headed by Charles P. Taft, S&B 1918. (19 Republicans Join Party Progressives. New York Times, Apr. 15, 1965). A few years later, other members of this group were instrumental in creating the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and lobbying for it to proclaim that secondhand smoke causes cancer.

His brother, Robert W. Burgess, was director of the US Census Bureau during the Eisenhower administration. In 1955, the bureau surveyed 25,000 householders to find out "how many smoke and how often. It is understood that the results will be used in connection with research into lung diseases, particularly lung cancer."

The National City Bank of New York, 1948-51

Directors: William Gage Brady Jr., Chairman; W. Randolph Burgess, Chairman, Executive Committee; Howard C. Sheperd, President; Sosthenes Behn, Chairman and President, International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation; Curtis E. Calder, Chairman, Electric Bond and Share Company; Guy Cary, Shearman & Sterling & Wright; Edward A. Deeds, Chairman, National Cash Register Company; Cleveland E. Dodge, Vice President, Phelps-Dodge Corporation; A.P. Giannini, Founder-Chairman, Bank of America National Trust and Savings Association; Joseph P. Grace Jr., President, W.R. Grace & Co.; James R. Hobbins, President, Anaconda Copper Mining Company; Amory Houghton, Chairman, Corning Glass Works; Roger Milliken, President, Deering, Milliken & Co. Inc.; Gerard Swope, Honorary President, General Electric Company; Reginald B. Taylor, Williamsville, N.Y.; and Robert Winthrop, Robert Winthrop & Co. (Display Ad 29. New York Times, Apr. 5, 1948 p. 31.) In 1949, Frederick B. Rentschler, Chairman, United Aircraft Corporation, joined the board, and A.P. Giannini was replaced by L.M. Giannini. (Display Ad 49. New York Times, Oct. 25, 1949 p. 47.) In 1951, Hobbins left and William H. Hoover, the new President of Anaconda, joined. (Display Ad 280. New York Times, Jan. 4, 1950 p. 84.) In 1951, Guy Cary left, and Boykin C. Wright, of Shearman & Sterling & Wright, joined. (Display Ad 330. New York Times, Jan. 3, 1951 p. 89.)

William Gage Brady Jr.

Brady was born in New York City around 1888, and graduated from Columbia University in 1908. He got his first business experience in the treasurer's office of the University, then went to the Bankers Trust Company. After six years there, in 1915 he joined the foreign department of the National City Bank. He was senior vice president of domestic operations in 1938, president in 1940, and chairman in 1948. He retired from the bank in 1952 but continued in business in Charlottesville, Va. as a director of the American Enka Corporation, Hugh W. Long & Co., Fundamental Investors, the Diversified Investment Fund, the Manhattan Bond Fund, and the Diversified Growth Fund until 1959. He had been a director of the Anaconda Copper Mining Company, Consolidated Edison, Sinclair Oil, United Aircraft, Western Union, the New York Hospital and the Memorial-Mission Hospital. (William G. Brady, Banker, 78, Dies. New York Times, Oct. 10, 1966.) John Hay Whitney was President of the Society of New York Hospital when he was elected to its board of governors. (National City's Chairman Joins N.Y. Hospital Board. New York Times, Jun. 21, 1950.) He was elected to the National Council of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States the next year. (Named to Church Post. New York Times, Dec. 6, 1951.) Mrs. William Gage Brady Jr. and Mrs. F. Huntington Babcock became the first women elected to the board of managers of St. Luke's Hospital. Eben W. Pyne was also elected; his great-grandfather, Percy R. Pyne, his great-uncle, Moses Taylor Pyne, and cousin Percy R. Pyne 2d, were all members of the board. (Tradition Broken At St. Luke's. New York Times, Jan. 13, 1951.) Fundamental Investors Inc. held 21,000 shares of of American Tobacco Co. (market value $1.3 million), 20,000 P. Lorillard Co. ($510,000), and 16,000 "B" shares of R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. Fellow directors were Hugh W. Long, Thomas F. Chalker, William H. Lough, Julian K. Roosevelt, Solwin W. Smith, T. Kennedy Stevenson, and Roger Tuckerman. (Display Ad 144. New York Times, May 9, 1954.)

The National City Bank of New York, 1952

Directors: William Gage Brady Jr., Chairman; W. Randolph Burgess, Chairman, Executive Committee; Howard C. Sheperd, President; Stanley C. Allyn, President, The National Cash Register Company; Sosthenes Behn, Chairman, International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation; Curtis E. Calder, Chairman, Electric Bond and Share Company; Cleveland E. Dodge, Vice President, Phelps-Dodge Corporation; L.M. Giannini, President, Bank of America National Trust and Savings Association; Roy H. Glover, Vice President and General Counsel, Anaconda Copper Company; Joseph P. Grace Jr., President, W.R. Grace & Co.; Harry C. Hagerty, Financial Vice President, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company; Amory Houghton, Chairman, Corning Glass Works; Keith S. McHugh, President, New York Telephone Company; Roger Milliken, President, Deering, Milliken & Co. Inc.; Frederick B. Rentschler, Chairman, United Aircraft Corporation; Gerard Swope, Honorary President, General Electric Company; Reginald B. Taylor, Williamsville, N.Y.; Robert Winthrop, Robert Winthrop & Co.; and Boykin C. Wright, Shearman & Sterling & Wright. (Display Ad 39. New York Times, Jul. 3, 1952 p. 33.)

Harry C. Hagerty

Harry C. Hagerty was vice chairman and chief financial officer of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. "He joined Metropolitan Life in 1917 as a statistician, became assistant treasurer in 1931, treasurer in 1936, financial vice president in 1951, and vice chairman in 1960. He retired in 1964." He was on the board of W.R. Grace & Company, the First National City Bank, the Radio Corporation of America, the National Broadcasting Company, the Amerada-Hess Corporation, the Long Island Lighting Company, Brinks Inc., the East River Savings Bank, the Rochester Gas & Electric Corporation and the Commercial Solvents Corporation. He was a trustee of the University of Notre Dame, Fordham University, Holy Cross College and Manhattanville College. He was a board member of Catholic Charities, and a member of the Cardinal's Committee of the Laity. He was appointed a Papal Chamberlain in 1957 by Pope Pius XII, and was a Knight of the Order of Malta and a Knight of the Holy Sepulchre. (Harry C. Hagerty, Retired Executive. By George Dugan. New York Times, Sep. 25, 1977.) He resigned from the board of the Metropolitan Life in 1965. Fellow directors who also resigned that year included Jeremiah Milbank of Milbank & Co., a director since 1927, and Robert W. Woodruff, chairman of Coca-Cola. New directors included Albert L. Nickerson, Chairman of Socony Mobil Oil. (Five Directors Are Named to the Board of Metropolitan Life Insurance. New York Times, Apr. 16, 1965.) His son, married Harry Coleman Hagerty Jr., married the daughter of John A. Coleman, who was a director of Tobacco & Allied Stocks, and also a Knight of the Order of Malta. (Mary Ann Coleman Is Married Here. New York Times, Sep. 20, 1959.)

The National City Bank of New York, 1953-55

Directors: Howard C. Sheperd, chairman; James S. Rockefeller, president; Stanley C. Allyn, President, The National Cash Register Company; Sosthenes Behn, Chairman, International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation; Curtis E. Calder, Chairman of the Executive Committee, Electric Bond and Share Company; Cleveland E. Dodge, Vice President, Phelps-Dodge Corporation; Ralph Gwin Follis, Chairman, Standard Oil Company of California; Roy H. Glover, Vice President and General Counsel, Anaconda Copper Company; Joseph P. Grace Jr., President, W.R. Grace & Co.; Harry C. Hagerty, Financial Vice President, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company; Amory Houghton, Chairman, Corning Glass Works; Keith S. McHugh, President, New York Telephone Company; Roger Milliken, President, Deering, Milliken & Co. Inc.; Richard S. Perkins, President, City Bank Farmers Trust Company; Frederick B. Rentschler, Chairman, United Aircraft Corporation; Reginald B. Taylor, Williamsville, N.Y.; Robert Winthrop, Robert Winthrop & Co.; and Boykin C. Wright, Shearman & Sterling & Wright. (Display Ad 36. New York Times, Jan. 6, 1953 p. 35.). In 1954, Richard S. Perkins became vice-chairman of the board; and Nathan C. Lenfestey, executive vice president and cashier, joined the board of directors. (Display Ad 38. New York Times, Jan. 5, 1954 p. 35.) In 1955, De Witt A. Forward, senior vice president, replaced Lenfestey on the board, and Charles C. Parlin of Shearman & Sterling & Wright replaced Wright. (Display Ad 33. New York Times, Jan. 4, 1955 p. 31.) The National City Bank held the longest annual meeting in its 140-year history, at two hours and twenty minutes, when Lewis Gilbert and another minority stockholder offered three resolutions for stockholder review its proposed profit-sharing and pension plans. W. Randolph Burgess, who recently resigned to become Secretary of the Treasury, assured the meeting that "I'll still be working for you people." (National City Has a Lengthy Meeting. New York Times, Jan. 14, 1953.)

The First National City Bank of New York, 1956

Directors: Stanley C. Allyn, President, The National Cash Register Company; George F. Baker Jr., Trustee, George F. Baker Trust; Sosthenes Behn, Chairman, International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation; Percy Chubb 2d, Partner, Chubb & Son; Cleveland E. Dodge, Vice President, Phelps-Dodge Corporation; Ralph Gwin Follis, Chairman, Standard Oil Company of California; De Witt A. Forward, Senior Vice President; Roy H. Glover, Chairman, Anaconda Copper Company; Joseph P. Grace Jr., President, W.R. Grace & Co.; George A. Guerdan, Vice President and Cashier; Harry C. Hagerty, Financial Vice President, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company; Amory Houghton, Chairman, Corning Glass Works; Keith S. McHugh, President, New York Telephone Company; Roger Milliken, President, Deering, Milliken & Co. Inc.; Edward S. Moore, Jr., Executive Vice President, National Biscuit Company; Charles G. Mortimer, Chairman, General Foods Corporation; Alexander C. Nagle, Chairman of the Executive Committee; Charles C. Parlin, Shearman & Sterling & Wright; Richard S. Perkins, Vice-Chairman of the Board; Frederick B. Rentschler, Chairman, United Aircraft Corporation; James S. Rockefeller, President; Howard C. Sheperd, Chairman of the Board; William C. Stolk, President, American Can Company; Reginald B. Taylor, Williamsville, N.Y.; and Robert Winthrop, Robert Winthrop & Co. (Display Ad 136. New York Times, Jan. 4, 1956 p. 33.)

George F. Baker Jr.

George F. Baker Jr. (the third one, ~1915-1977) was a director of the City Bank Farmers Trust and the National City Bank from 1956 to at least 1971. Baker was found shot to death with a shotgun on his plantation near Tallahassee, Fla., an apparent suicide at age 62. His younger brother, Grenville, was accidentally shot to death there in 1949. He joined the First National Bank in 1939, a few months after graduating from Harvard. He was made a director in 1949, and continued as a director after the merger with the National City Bank. He was treasurer of the Fund for Medical Progress of the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center. His first wife was Frances Drexel Munn and his second was the former Kim Kendall. (George F. Baker Jr., New York Socialite, Found Fatally Shot. New York Times, Dec. 12, 1977.) John Hay Whitney was big donor to the Fund for Medical Progress.

His father, George F. Baker Jr. (~1878-1937) was the son of George F. Baker, one of the founders of the First National Bank of New York in 1863. He married Edith Brevoort Kane, daughter of the Grenville Kanes. George Woolsey was best man. S. Walker, brother-in-law of the bride; William Goadby Loew, his brother-in-law; W. Prentice; and C.S. Lee were ushers. (Miss Edith Kane Bride at Tuxedo. New York Times, Oct. 15, 1911.) Mr. and Mrs. Baker raised funds for the American Society for the Control of Cancer. (Cancer Society's Benefit. New York Times, Dec. 14, 1926; Peacock Point Fete Attracts Throngs. New York Times, Sep. 13, 1927.) "The First National Bank leads in the percentage of representation on the A.T. & T. board. George F. Baker, chairman, and George F. Baker Jr., vice chairman of the First National, are directors of A.T. & T., while First National directors who are also on the A.T. & T. board include Myron C. Taylor and Walter S. Gifford. The Guaranty Trust may be said to be represented on the A.T. & T. board by James S. Alexander, John W. Davis, Charles P. Cooper and David F. Houston. Other directors of A.T. & T. who are connected with banking institutions include Thomas Nelson Perkins, a director of the State Street Trust Company of Boston; Edward E. Loomis, a trustee of the New York Trust Company; E.V.R. Thayer, chairman of the executive committee of the Central Trust Company of Illinois, and Daniel Willard, a director of the First National Bank of Chicago." Winthrop W. Aldrich, president of the Chase National Bank, was newly elected. (A.T. & T.'s Banking Directorate. New York Times, Aug. 24, 1930.) George F. Baker Sr. and Jr. contributed $2 million in 1920 to rebuild Lying-In Hospital. George F. Baker 3d is the fourth generation of the family to serve on the board of governors of New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center. (Medical Center Gets $1.5 Million Whitney Gift. By Kathleen Teltsch. New York Times, Oct. 24, 1982.) George F. Baker Jr. was elected a governor of the Society of the New York Hospital after his father died. (G.F. Baker Jr. in Hospital Post. New York Times, June 3, 1931.) He was the chairman of the First National Bank, and died of peritonitis on his yacht in Honolulu Harbor. (George F. Baker, 59, Dies of Peritonitis on Yacht in Hawaii. New York Times, May 31, 1937.)

George F. Baker Jr.'s (~1915-1977) sister, Florence T. Baker, married T. Suffern Tailer Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Sidney S. Whelan were among the guests. (Florence T. Baker Weds T.S. Tailer Jr. New York Times, June 19, 1932.) His daughter, Edith B. Baker, married John M. Schiff, the grandson of Jacob H. Schiff of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. Paul F. Warburg was best man, and the bride's brother, George F. Baker, was an usher. (Edith Baker Wed to John M. Schiff. New York Times, May 4, 1934.) Georgette Whelan was a bridesmaid for both sisters. She was the daughter of Sidney Smith Whelan, an executive of the United Cigar Stores company and president of Philip Morris International Corporation in 1922. He was a stepson of George J. Whelan. He retired from the tobacco business in 1931, but remained a director of the Powhatan Brass and Iron Works of Ranson, W.V. (Sidney S. Whelan, 71, Tobacco Executive. New York Times, Nov. 6, 1959.) The Baker sisters were attendants for Georgette when she got married. Angier Biddle Duke was an usher. (Georgette Whelan Wed to G.G. Rutherfurd; Twelve Attendants in Bridal Procession. New York Times, Sep. 9, 1938.) George F. Baker Jr.'s (~1878-1937) granddaughter, Priscilla St. George, married Angier Biddle Duke Jr., the grandson of Benjamin N. Duke. Barbara Filed was a bridesmaid, and Marshall Field Jr. [4th] was an usher. (Priscilla St. George Is Married To Angier B. Duke in Tuxedo Park. New York Times, Jan. 3, 1937.)

The First National City Bank of New York, 1957-59

Directors: Stanley C. Allyn, President, The National Cash Register Company; George F. Baker Jr., Trustee, George F. Baker Trust; Percy Chubb 2d, Partner, Chubb & Son; Cleveland E. Dodge, Vice President, Phelps-Dodge Corporation; Ralph Gwin Follis, Chairman, Standard Oil Company of California; De Witt A. Forward, Senior Vice President; Roy H. Glover, Chairman, The Anaconda Company; Joseph P. Grace Jr., President, W.R. Grace & Co.; Harry C. Hagerty, Financial Vice President, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company; H. Mansfield Horner, Chairman, United Aircraft Corporation; Amory Houghton, Chairman, Corning Glass Works; Keith S. McHugh, President, New York Telephone Company; Roger Milliken, President, Deering, Milliken & Co. Inc.; Edward S. Moore, Jr., Executive Vice President, National Biscuit Company; Charles G. Mortimer, President, General Foods Corporation; Alexander C. Nagle, 20 Exchange Place; Charles C. Parlin, Shearman & Sterling & Wright; Richard S. Perkins, Vice-Chairman of the Board; James S. Rockefeller, President; Howard C. Sheperd, Chairman of the Board; William C. Stolk, President, American Can Company; Reginald B. Taylor, Williamsville, N.Y.; Alan H. Temple, Executive Vice President; Leo D. Welch, Vice President, Standard Oil Company (New Jersey); and Robert Winthrop, Robert Winthrop & Co. (Display Ad 212. New York Times, Jan. 3, 1957 p. 82.) In 1958, Houghton left, and Joseph A. Grazier, President, American Radiator & Standard Sanitary Corporation, joined the board. (Display Ad 36. New York Times, Jan. 3, 1958 p. 33.) Charles M. Brinckerhoff, President, the Anaconda Company, replaced Glover. (Display Ad 48. New York Times, Jan. 6, 1959 p. 45.)

The First National City Bank of New York, 1960

Directors: Stanley C. Allyn, Chairman, The National Cash Register Company; George F. Baker Jr., Trustee, George F. Baker Trust; Charles M. Brinckerhoff, President, The Anaconda Company; Percy Chubb 2d, President, Chubb & Son Inc.; Carl W. Desch, Cashier; Cleveland E. Dodge, Vice President, Phelps-Dodge Corporation; R. Gwin Follis, Chairman, Standard Oil Company of California; J. Peter Grace, President, W.R. Grace & Co.; Joseph A. Grazier, President, American Radiator & Standard Sanitary Corporation; George A. Guerdan, Vice President Operations; Harry C. Hagerty, Vice Chairman, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company; H. Mansfield Horner, Chairman, United Aircraft Corporation; Roger Milliken, President, Deering, Milliken & Co. Inc.; George S. Moore, President; Charles G. Mortimer, Chairman, General Foods Corporation; Alexander C. Nagle, 20 Exchange Place; Charles C. Parlin, Shearman & Sterling & Wright; Richard S. Perkins, Chairman of the Executive Committee; Clifton W. Phalen, President, New York Telephone Company; James S. Rockefeller, Chairman; William C. Stolk, President, American Can Company; Reginald B. Taylor, Williamsville, N.Y.; Alan H. Temple, Vice Chairman; Leo D. Welch, Executive Vice President, Standard Oil Company (New Jersey); and Robert Winthrop, Robert Winthrop & Co. (Display Ad 41. New York Times, Jan. 5, 1960 p. 41.)

First National City Bank of New York, 1961

Directors: Stanley C. Allyn, Chairman, The National Cash Register Company; George F. Baker Jr., Trustee, George F. Baker Trust; John E. Bierwirth, Chairman, National Distillers and Chemical Corporation; Charles M. Brinckerhoff, President, The Anaconda Company; Percy Chubb 2d, President, Chubb & Son Inc.; R. Gwin Follis, Chairman, Standard Oil Company of California; J. Peter Grace, President, W.R. Grace & Co.; Joseph A. Grazier, President, American Radiator & Standard Sanitary Corporation; George A. Guerdan, Vice President Operations; Harry C. Hagerty, Vice Chairman, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company; H. Mansfield Horner, Chairman, United Aircraft Corporation; John R. Kimberly, Chairman, Kimberly-Clark Corporation; Roger Milliken, President Deering-Milliken, Inc.; George S. Moore, President; Charles G. Mortimer, Chairman, General Foods Corporation; Alexander C. Nagle, 20 Exchange Place; Charles C. Parlin, Shearman & Sterling & Wright; Richard S. Perkins, Chairman of the Executive Committee; Clifton W. Phalen, President, New York Telephone Company; James S. Rockefeller, Chairman; William C. Stolk, Chairman of the Board, American Can Company; Reginald B. Taylor, Williamsville, N.Y.; Alan H. Temple, Vice-Chairman; Leo D. Welch, Chairman of the Board, Standard Oil Company (New Jersey); and Robert Winthrop, Robert Winthrop & Co. (Display Ad 40. New York Times, Jan. 5, 1961 p. 41.)

First National City Bank, 1962

Directors and Trust Advisory Board: Stanley C. Allyn, Chairman, The National Cash Register Company; *George F. Baker Jr., Trustee, George F. Baker Trust; John E. Bierwirth, Chairman, National Distillers and Chemical Corporation; Charles M. Brinckerhoff, President, The Anaconda Company; Percy Chubb 2d, President, Chubb & Son Inc.; †William Rogers Coe, Trustee, The Coe Foundation; †Freeman J. Daniels, Perkins, Daniels, McCormack & Collins; †Hunt T. Dickinson, 405 Lexington Avenue; †Robert W. Dowling, President, City Investment Company; †Samuel Sloan Duryee, Parker, Duryee, Benjamin, Zunino & Malone; †Frederick M. Eaton, Shearman & Sterling; R. Gwin Follis, Chairman, Standard Oil Company of California; J. Peter Grace, President, W.R. Grace & Co.; Joseph A. Grazier, President, American Radiator & Standard Sanitary Corporation; George A. Guerdan, Senior Vice President; Harry C. Hagerty, Vice Chairman, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company; H. Mansfield Horner, Chairman, United Aircraft Corporation; Amory Houghton, Chairman of the Executive Committee, Corning Glass Works; John R. Kimberly, Chairman, Kimberly-Clark Corporation; Roger Milliken, President Deering-Milliken, Inc.; *George S. Moore, President; Charles G. Mortimer, Chairman, General Foods Corporation; Alexander C. Nagle, 399 Park Avenue; †William F. Oliver, President, The American Sugar Refining Company; Charles C. Parlin, Shearman & Sterling; *Richard S. Perkins, Chairman of the Executive Committee; Clifton W. Phalen, President, New York Telephone Company; †Eben W. Pyne, Senior Vice President; James S. Rockefeller, Chairman; †Howard C. Sheperd, 399 Park Avenue; William C. Stolk, Chairman of the Board, American Can Company; †Henry C. Taylor, Taylor, Pinkham & Co., Inc.; *Reginald B. Taylor, Williamsville, N.Y.; †Earle S. Thompson, Chairman, Allegheny Power System, Inc.; †J. Ed. Warren, President, Cities Service Company; Leo D. Welch, Chairman of the Board, Standard Oil Company (New Jersey); and *Robert Winthrop, Robert Winthrop & Co. (* Director and Member Trust Advisory Board; † Member Trust Advisory Board.) (Display Ad 174. New York Times, Jan. 4, 1962 p. 59.) Daniels was the counsel of the P. Lorillard Tobacco Company.

First National City Bank, 1963-65

Directors and Trust Board: *George F. Baker Jr., Trustee, George F. Baker Trust; †Dana T. Bartholomew, Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Aluminium Ltd.; William M. Batten, President, J.C. Penney Company Inc.; John E. Bierwirth, Chairman, National Distillers and Chemical Corporation; Charles M. Brinckerhoff, President, The Anaconda Company; Percy Chubb 2d, President, Chubb & Son Inc.; †William Rogers Coe, Trustee, The Coe Foundation; †Freeman J. Daniels, Perkins, Daniels, McCormack & Collins; †Hunt T. Dickinson, 405 Lexington Avenue; †Robert W. Dowling, President, City Investment Company; †Samuel Sloan Duryee, Parker, Duryee, Benjamin, Zunino & Malone; †Frederick M. Eaton, Shearman & Sterling; R. Gwin Follis, Chairman, Standard Oil Company of California; J. Peter Grace, President, W.R. Grace & Co.; Joseph A. Grazier, President, American Radiator & Standard Sanitary Corporation; Harry C. Hagerty, Director, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company; Michael L. Haider, President, Standard Oil Company (New Jersey); H. Mansfield Horner, Chairman, United Aircraft Corporation; Amory Houghton, Chairman of the Executive Committee, Corning Glass Works; †Amory Houghton Jr., President, Corning Glass Works; John R. Kimberly, Chairman, Kimberly-Clark Corporation; Roger Milliken, President Deering-Milliken, Inc.; George S. Moore, President; Charles G. Mortimer, Chairman, General Foods Corporation; †James M. Nicely, Vice President and Treasurer, The Ford Foundation; Robert S. Oelman, Chairman and President, The National Cash Register Company; †William F. Oliver, President, The American Sugar Refining Company; Charles C. Parlin, Shearman & Sterling; Richard S. Perkins, Chairman of the Executive Committee; Clifton W. Phalen, President, New York Telephone Company; James S. Rockefeller, Chairman; †Howard C. Sheperd, 399 Park Avenue; William C. Stolk, Chairman of the Board, American Can Company; †Henry C. Taylor, Taylor, Pinkham & Co., Inc.; *Reginald B. Taylor, Williamsville, N.Y.; †Earle S. Thompson, Chairman, Allegheny Power System, Inc.; †J. Ed. Warren, President, Cities Service Company; Leo D. Welch, Chairman, Communications Satellite Corporation; and *Robert Winthrop, Wood, Struthers & Winthrop. (* Director and Member Trust Advisory Board; † Member Trust Advisory Board.) (Display Ad 192. New York Times, Jul. 3, 1963 p. 37.) In 1963, Alan H. Temple, 399 Park Avenue, rejoined as a director and member of the Trust Advisory Board; and Hulbert W. Tripp, Financial Vice President of the University of Rochester, joined as a member of the Trust Advisory Board. (Display Ad 30. New York Times, Jan. 10, 1964 p. 33.) Coe, Nicely and Thompson left; Hagerty was replaced by George P. Jenkins, Financial Vice President of the Metropolitan Life; C. Sterling Bunnell, Chairman Credit Policy Committee, joined as a director, and Howard C. Harder, President Corn Products Company, joined as a director. (Display Ad 49. New York Times, Jul. 13, 1965 p. 47.)

Amory Houghton Jr.

Mrs. Amory (Ruth) Houghton Jr. of Corning, N.Y. was a delegate-at-large of the American Cancer Society's House of Delegates since 1971; also Past Secretary, Member of the Board and Executive Committee of the ACS New York State Division. (1975 House of Delegates and Board of Directors. American Cancer Society Inc.)

First National City Bank, 1967

Directors and Trust Board: *George F. Baker Jr., Trustee, George F. Baker Trust; *Dana T. Bartholomew, Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Alcan Aluminium Ltd.; William M. Batten, President, J.C. Penney Company Inc.; John E. Bierwirth, Chairman, National Distillers and Chemical Corporation; Charles M. Brinckerhoff, Chairman, The Anaconda Company; *William M. Chisholm, President, Oxford Paper Company; Percy Chubb 2d, Chairman, Chubb & Son Inc.; *Freeman J. Daniels, Perkins, Daniels & McCormack; *Hunt T. Dickinson, 405 Lexington Avenue; *Robert W. Dowling, President, City Investment Company; Frederick M. Eaton, Shearman & Sterling; R. Gwin Follis, Chairman, Standard Oil Company of California; J. Peter Grace, President, W.R. Grace & Co.; Gordon Grand, President, Olin Mathieson Chemical Corporation; Joseph A. Grazier, Chairman, American Radiator & Standard Sanitary Corporation; Michael L. Haider, Chairman, Standard Oil Company (New Jersey); *Howard C. Harder, President Corn Products Company; H. Mansfield Horner, Chairman, United Aircraft Corporation; Amory Houghton, Honorary Chairman, Corning Glass Works; *Amory Houghton Jr., Chairman, Corning Glass Works; George P. Jenkins, Chairman Finance Committee, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company; John R. Kimberly, President, Kimberly-Clark Corporation; *J. Howard Laeri, Vice Chairman; Roger Milliken, President Deering-Milliken, Inc.; George S. Moore, President; Charles G. Mortimer, Chairman of the Executive Committee, General Foods Corporation; Robert S. Oelman, Chairman The National Cash Register Company; *William F. Oliver, President, American Sugar Company; Richard S. Perkins, Chairman of the Executive Committee; Clifton W. Phalen, Chairman of the Executive Committee, New York Telephone Company; James S. Rockefeller, Chairman; Charles H. Sommer, President, Monsanto Company; William C. Stolk, Director, American Can Company; *Alan H. Temple, 399 Park Avenue; *Hulbert W. Tripp, Senior Vice President; *J. Ed. Warren, Consultant, 1271 Avenue of the Americas; Leo D. Welch, former Chairman of Standard Oil Company (New Jersey) and Communications Satellite Corporation; Albert L. Williams, Chairman of the Executive Committee, International Business Machines Corporation; Joseph C. Wilson, Chairman and CEO, Xerox Corporation; *Robert Winthrop, Wood, Struthers & Winthrop; and Howard C. Sheperd, Chairman Emeritus. (* Member Trust Board.) (Display Ad 326. New York Times, Jan. 12, 1967 p. 57.)

First National City Bank, 1968

Directors and Trust Board: *George F. Baker Jr., Trustee, George F. Baker Trust; *Frank S. Barnett, Chairman of the Executive Committee, Union Pacific Railroad Company; *Dana T. Bartholomew, Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Alcan Aluminium Ltd.; William M. Batten, Chairman, J.C. Penney Company Inc.; Charles M. Brinckerhoff, Chairman, The Anaconda Company; *William H. Chisholm, Executive Vice President, Ethyl Corporation; Percy Chubb 2d, Chairman, The Chubb Corporation; *Freeman J. Daniels, Perkins, Daniels & McCormack; John D. DeButts, Vice Chairman, American Telephone and Telegraph Company; Frederick M. Eaton, Shearman & Sterling; J. Peter Grace, President, W.R. Grace & Co.; Gordon Grand, President, Olin Mathieson Chemical Corporation; Joseph A. Grazier, Chairman, American Standard Inc.; Michael L. Haider, Chairman, Standard Oil Company (New Jersey); *Howard C. Harder, President Corn Products Company; *Robert L. Hoguet, Executive Vice President; H. Mansfield Horner, Chairman, United Aircraft Corporation; Amory Houghton, Honorary Chairman, Corning Glass Works; *Amory Houghton Jr., Chairman, Corning Glass Works; George P. Jenkins, Chairman Finance Committee, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company; John R. Kimberly, Chairman, Kimberly-Clark Corporation; *J. Howard Laeri, Vice Chairman; Gordon M. Metcalf, Chairman, Sears Roebuck & Co.; Roger Milliken, President Deering-Milliken, Inc.; George S. Moore, Chairman; Charles G. Mortimer, Chairman of the Executive Committee, General Foods Corporation; Robert S. Oelman, Chairman The National Cash Register Company; *William F. Oliver, President, American Sugar Company; Richard S. Perkins, Chairman of the Executive Committee; James S. Rockefeller, former Chairman; *Charles H. Sommer, President, Monsanto Company; William C. Stolk, Director, American Can Company; *Alan H. Temple, 399 Park Avenue; *Hulbert W. Tripp, Senior Vice President; *J. Ed. Warren, Consultant, 1271 Avenue of the Americas; Leo D. Welch, former Chairman of Standard Oil Company (New Jersey) and Communications Satellite Corporation; *Thomas R. Wilcox, Vice Chairman; Albert L. Williams, Chairman of the Executive Committee, International Business Machines Corporation; Joseph C. Wilson, Chairman and CEO, Xerox Corporation; *Robert Winthrop, Wood, Struthers & Winthrop; Walter B. Wriston, President. Howard C. Sheperd, Chairman Emeritus. (* Member Trust Board.) (Display Ad. New York Times, Jan. 12, 1968 p. 43.)

Thomas R. Wilcox

"THOMAS R. WILCOX New York City, ACS Director-at-Large (1959-60). Exec. Vice Pres., First National City Bank of New York, Trustee, Mutual Life Insurance Co. of New York; East River Savings Bank. Chm.: Visiting Nurse Service of New York; Special Gifts Comm., Princeton Univ. campaign." (Know Your Board of Directors, 1961. American Cancer Society.)

Wilcox's parents were immigrants from Ireland. He began as a page at the First National City Bank in 1934. He received a degree in economics from Princeton in 1940, and served in the Navy during World War II. He was executive vice president from 1957 to 1967 and then vice chairman until resigning in 1971. In 1974, he became chairman and chief executive of the Crocker National Bank in San Francisco. The Midland Bank Ltd. of the U.K. acquired a majority share of Crocker in 1981, and Wilcox retired that year. Midland sold Crocker to Wells Fargo & Co. in 1986. His family said he died of cancer. One of his surviving brothers was George L. Wilcox of Ligonier, Penn. (Thomas R. Wilcox, 76, a Banker Who Rose From Page to Chairman. By Wolfgang Saxon. New York Times, Jul. 21, 1993.) In 1971, he was also a director of the Boeing Company, Colgate-Palmolive, National Cash Register, and National Distillers and Chemical Corporation, and a trustee of the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York. He lived on Shelter Island and commuted by float plane. (Vice Chairman Leaving First National City Corp. By H. Erich Heinemann. New York Times, Aug. 3, 1971.) In 1967, he was a member of a special commission appointed by New York Mayor John V. Lindsay to recommend that the city's hospitals and health services be run by a public corporation appointed by the mayor. Gerard Piel, publisher of Scientific American, headed the commission, and the other members included Benjamin J. Buttenwieser and William T. Golden. (New Setup Urged for City Hospitals. By Martin Tolchin. New York Times, Dec. 16, 1967.) He joined Eastman Dillon as a vice chairman. (Loeb, Rhoades Promotes Two As It Drops Michel. By Terry Robards. New York Times, Nov. 23, 1971.) In 1975, when the U.S. Justice Department sued under the Clayton Act over interlocking directorships, Wilcox was also a director of the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York, Colgate-Palmolive Company, Hilton Hotels Corporation, Schweppes (USA) Ltd., and United Merchants and Manufacturers, Inc. Fellow Crocker director Otto N. Miller was also a director of the Equitable and Weyerhaeuser; Crocker's executive committee chairman Emmett G. Solomon was also a director of the Metropolitan Life, Pacific Telephone and Telegraph, Pacific Gas and Electric, Clorox, and Union Sugar. (Banks and Insurers Sued Over Dual Directorships. New York Times, Oct. 7, 1975.)

His father-in-law, Maurice Collette, was vice president and a director of Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborne. He joined the George Batten Company in 1917. He handled the account of E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. since 1930. (Mary Jane Collette Married in Princeton to Lieut. Thomas Robert Wilcox of Navy. New York Times, Mar. 29, 1943; Maurice Collette, An Ad Executive, 70. New York Times, Apr. 4, 1956.) His brother, George L. Wilcox, was vice chairman of Westinghouse Electric. He graduated from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn with a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering in 1939. (Polytechnic Gives Degrees Tonight. New York Times, June 14, 1939.) He was elected vice president and a director of Westinghouse Electric International Company in 1953. (Vice President, Director of Westinghouse Unit. New York Times, Apr. 1, 1953.) He was elected an executive vice president of the Westinghouse Electric Corp. in 1963, responsible for the atomic, space, and defense group, the electric utility and marine group, electronic components and specialty products, and relations with Canadian Westinghouse Company Ltd., as well as Westinghouse Electric International. (Westinghouse Picks 2 Executive Vice Presidents. New York Times, Aug. 2, 1963.) He became a director two years later. (Westinghouse Elects Two Directors. New York Times, Oct. 29, 1965.)

First National City Bank, 1969-70

Directors and Trust Board: *George F. Baker Jr., Trustee, George F. Baker Trust; *Frank S. Barnett, Chairman of the Executive Committee, Union Pacific Railroad Company; *Dana T. Bartholomew, Executive Vice President, Finance, Alcan Aluminium Ltd.; William M. Batten, Chairman, J.C. Penney Company Inc.; Charles M. Brinckerhoff, Chairman Executive Committee, The Anaconda Company; *William H. Chisholm, Executive Vice President, Ethyl Corporation; Percy Chubb 2d, Chairman, The Chubb Corporation; *Freeman J. Daniels, Perkins, Daniels & McCormack; John D. DeButts, Vice Chairman, American Telephone and Telegraph Company; Frederick M. Eaton, Shearman & Sterling; *Richard M. Furlaud, President, Squibb-Beech-Nut Inc.; *Hon. Louis P. Gelinas, Consultant, Geoffrion, Robert & Gelinas, Inc.; J. Peter Grace, President, W.R. Grace & Co.; Gordon Grand, President, Olin Mathieson Chemical Corporation; Joseph A. Grazier, Chairman Executive and Finance Committee, American Standard Inc.; *William C. Greenough, Chairman & CEO, Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America and College Retirement Equities Fund; William P. Gwinn, Chairman, United Aircraft Corporation; Michael L. Haider, Chairman, Standard Oil Company (New Jersey); *Howard C. Harder, President Corn Products Company; *Robert L. Hoguet, Executive Vice President; Amory Houghton, Honorary Chairman, Corning Glass Works; *Amory Houghton Jr., Chairman, Corning Glass Works; George P. Jenkins, Chairman Finance Committee, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company; John R. Kimberly, Chairman, Kimberly-Clark Corporation; *J. Howard Laeri, Vice Chairman; Charles B. McCoy, President, E.I. duPont de Nemours & Co.; Gordon M. Metcalf, Chairman, Sears Roebuck & Co.; Roger Milliken, President Deering-Milliken, Inc.; †George S. Moore, Chairman; Charles G. Mortimer, Chairman of the Executive Committee, General Foods Corporation; Robert S. Oelman, Chairman The National Cash Register Company; *William F. Oliver, President, American Sugar Company; †Richard S. Perkins, Chairman of the Executive Committee; James S. Rockefeller, former Chairman; *Charles H. Sommer, Chairman, Monsanto Company; *Hulbert W. Tripp, Trustee and Chairman of the Investment Committee, The University of Rochester; *Thomas R. Wilcox, Vice Chairman; Albert L. Williams, Chairman of the Executive Committee, International Business Machines Corporation; Joseph C. Wilson, Chairman and CEO, Xerox Corporation; *Robert Winthrop, Wood, Struthers & Winthrop; †Walter B. Wriston, President. Howard C. Sheperd, Chairman Emeritus. (*Member Trust Board. †Director and Member Trust Board.) (Display Ad. New York Times, Jan. 14, 1969 p. 61.) In 1970, Harder and Hoguet left; Carl W. Desch, Senior Vice President and Cashier, and *M. Cabell Woodward Jr., President ITT Continental Baking Company, Inc. joined. (Display Ad 336. New York Times, Jan. 23, 1970 p. 43.)

First National City Bank, 1971

Directors: William M. Batten, Chairman, J.C. Penney Company Inc.; Milo M. Brisco, President, Standard Oil Company (New Jersey); Percy Chubb 2d, Chairman Executive Committee, The Chubb Corporation; John D. DeButts, Vice Chairman, American Telephone and Telegraph Company; Frederick M. Eaton, Shearman & Sterling; Dr. Louis K. Eilers, Chairman & CEO, Eastman Kodak Company; Dr. Lawrence E. Fouraker, Dean of the Faculty of Business Administration, Harvard Business School; J. Peter Grace, President, W.R. Grace & Co.; Gordon Grand, President, Olin Corporation; William P. Gwinn, Chairman, United Aircraft Corporation; John G. Hall, President, The Anaconda Company; Amory Houghton Jr., Chairman, Corning Glass Works; George P. Jenkins, Vice Chairman of the Board and Chairman of the Finance Committee, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company; John R. Kimberly, Director, Kimberly-Clark Corporation; Charles B. McCoy, President, E.I. duPont de Nemours & Co.; Gordon M. Metcalf, Chairman, Sears Roebuck & Co.; Roger Milliken, President Deering-Milliken, Inc.; Charles G. Mortimer, Chairman of the Executive Committee, General Foods Corporation; Robert S. Oelman, Chairman The National Cash Register Company; *Edward L. Palmer, Chairman of the Executive Committee; *William I. Spencer, President; Franklin A. Thomas, President, Bedford-Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation; Albert L. Williams, Chairman of the Executive Committee, International Business Machines Corporation; Joseph C. Wilson, Chairman, Xerox Corporation; Walter B. Wriston, Chairman. (* Also Member Trust Board.)

Trust Board: George F. Baker Jr., Trustee, George F. Baker Trust; Frank S. Barnett, Chairman of the Board and CEO, Union Pacific Corporation and Union Pacific Railroad Company; William H. Chisholm, Executive Vice President, Ethyl Corporation; Paul J. Collins, Senior Vice President; Freeman J. Daniels, Perkins, Daniels & McCormack; Richard M. Furlaud, President, Squibb-Beech-Nut Inc.; Hon. Louis P. Gélinas, Consultant, Geoffrion, Robert & Gélinas, Inc.; William C. Greenough, Chairman & CEO, Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America and College Retirement Equities Fund; Amory Houghton, Honorary Chairman, Corning Glass Works; J. Howard Laeri, Vice Chairman; William F. Oliver, President, Amstar Corporation; Richard S. Smith, Vice President-Administration, National Steel Corporation; Charles H. Sommer, Chairman, Monsanto Company; Thomas C. Theobald, Executive Vice President; Hulbert W. Tripp, Trustee and Chairman of the Investment Committee, The University of Rochester; Thomas R. Wilcox, Vice Chairman; Robert Winthrop, Honorary Chairman, Wood, Struthers & Winthrop Inc.; and M. Cabell Woodward Jr., President ITT Continental Baking Company, Inc. (Display Ad 30. New York Times, Jan. 22, 1971 p. 31.)

First National City Corporation and First National City Bank, 1974

Directors of First National City Corporation and First National City Bank: *Lord Aldington, Chairman, National and Grindlays Bank Ltd.; *Frank S. Barnett, Chairman of the Board and CEO, Union Pacific Corporation and Union Pacific Railroad Company; William M. Batten, Chairman, J.C. Penney Company Inc.; *Arthur G. Cohen, Chairman of the Board & CEO, Arlen Realty and Development Corporation; *G.A. Costanzo, Vice Chairman; John D. DeButts, Vice Chairman, American Telephone and Telegraph Company; Frederick M. Eaton, Shearman & Sterling; Dr. Louis K. Eilers, Director, Eastman Kodak Company; Dr. Lawrence E. Fouraker, Dean of the Faculty of Business Administration, Harvard Business School; Clifton C. Garvin Jr., President, Exxon Corporation; J. Peter Grace, Chairman & CEO, W.R. Grace & Co.; Harry J. Gray, Chairman, President & CEO, United Aircraft Corporation; Robert S. Hatfield, Chairman of the Board and CEO, Continental Can Company Inc.; H.J. Haynes, President, Standard Oil Company of California; Amory Houghton Jr., Chairman of the Board, Corning Glass Works; †George P. Jenkins, Chairman of the Board, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company; C. Peter McColough, Chairman & CEO, Xerox Corporation; Charles B. McCoy, Chairman Finance Committee, E.I. duPont de Nemours & Co.; Roger Milliken, President Deering-Milliken, Inc.; Robert S. Oelman, Chairman The National Cash Register Company; Edward L. Palmer, Chairman of the Executive Committee; †Charles M. Piggott, President, PACCAR Inc.; †William M. Rees, Chairman and President, The Chubb Corporation; Dr. Eleanor H.B. Sheldon, President, Social Science Research Council; Darwin E. Smith, Chairman of the Board and CEO, Kimberly-Clark Corporation; William I. Spencer, President; Franklin A. Thomas, President, Bedford-Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation; Albert L. Williams, Chairman of the Executive Committee, International Business Machines Corporation; and Walter B. Wriston, Chairman. (* Director of First National City Corporation only; † Director of National City Bank only.) (Display Ad 88. New York Times, Jan. 25, 1974 p. 49.)

Citibank and anti-smoking

Irvine H. Dearnley and Christopher C. York, Vice Presidents of Citibank, participated in Work Group 4, "Smoking Control in the Workplace," of the National Conference on Smoking OR Health, Developing a Blueprint for Action, Nov. 18-20, 1981. Other participants included Group Leader Robert Beck, Director of Personnel Benefits and Services of IBM Corp.; Lloyd C. Arnold, director of the Johnson & Johnson Company's Live for Life; Gilbert H. Collings Jr. and Loring Wood of the New York Telephone Company; Willis Goldbeck, Ann Kiefhaber, and Leon J. Warshaw of the Washington Business Group on Health; Marvin M. Kristein of the American Health Foundation; Stanley M. Little of the Boeing Co.; Rebecca S. Parkinson of AT&T; and A. Judson Wells, Special Assistant of the American Lung Association and later ghost author (concealed behind illegal pass-through contracts) of the EPA ETS report.

Christopher C. York

"After four years’ active duty as a Captain with the U.S. Air Force JAG 1970, Professor York served as Secretary of Citibank’s Board of Directors; Associate General Counsel of Citicorp; Vice President of Planning & Marketing of AmBase Corporation, and EVP—Management and COO of Project HOPE, the international medical education NGO. He earned an AB degree at Colgate University, an MA degree at the East-West Center at the University of Hawaii and a JD degree at Emory University Law School. His current research interests are ethical business practices and self regulating work teams. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and of the Bars of the U.S. Supreme Court; the 5th and 11th Federal District Courts, and the Supreme Court of the State of Georgia." (Christopher C. York, JD. Clinical Assistant Professor of Management, Institute on Contemporary Issues in Global Management, Sacred Heart.)

In 1988, he was on the editorial board of "Business & Health" magazine, a publication of the Washington Business Group on Health.

"...For the past decade he has operated his own international consultancy, specializing in strategic marketing planning. He served on the Board of Keyport Benefit Life Insurance Company and as a Trustee of NASA’s Center for Technology Commercialization, He has served on a number of academic, federal and state advisory councils regarding health policy and financial regulation, and has published articles in professional journals. He is a Fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine, a member of The Pilgrims Society and the Phi Beta Kappa. He holds an AB from Colgate University, an MA from the East-West Center of the University of Hawaii, and a JD from the Emory University Law School. His academic specialties are Russian and Asian studies, Overseas Business and International Law. He served four years active duty as a Captain in the U.S. Air Force. He is a founding partner of Academica Associates." (Academic Leadership, Feb 22, 2007.)

In 1993, American Express under Sanford Weill acquired The Travelers, and Salomon Brothers, whose biggest shareholder was Warren Buffett, in 1997. In 1998, The Travelers acquired Citibank and became Citigroup [CIK 0000831001], and in 2000 Weill kicked Reed out.

"In news on the muni front, Salomon Smith Barney was named the lead senior manager for the first two tobacco securitization plans (the transformation of revenue from the large tobacco settlement into bonds) in the summer of 1999" by New York City and Nassau County, NY.

Citicorp 1994

Directors: D. Wayne Calloway, Chairman & CEO, Pepsico Inc., director since 1988; Colby H. Chandler, former Chairman & CEO, Eastman Kodak Co., director since 1984; Pei-Yuan Chia, Vice Chairman, Citicorp and Citibank N.A., director since 1993; Paul J. Collins, Vice Chairman, Senior Corporate Officer for Europe and the Middle East, director since 1985; Kenneth T. Derr, Chairman & CEO, Chevron Corp., director since 1987; H.J. Haynes, Director & senior counselor, Bechtel Group Inc., director since 1972; John S. Reed, Chairman, Citicorp and Citibank N.A., director since 1982, also a director of Philip Morris Companies Inc.; William R. Rhodes, Vice Chairman, Citicorp and Citibank N.A., director since 1991, other activities - New York Hospital; Rozanne L. Ridgway, Co-Chair, The Atlantic Council of the U.S., director since 1990; H. Onno Ruding, Vice Chairman, Citicorp and Citibank N.A., director since 1990; Frank A. Shrontz, Chairman & CEO, The Boeing Company, director since 1986; Mario H. Simonsen, Vice Chairman, Brazilian Institute of Economics, The Getulio Vargas Foundation, director since 1979; Roger B. Smith, former Chairman & CEO, General Motors Corp. [conceived the General Motors Cancer Research Prizes in 1978], director since 1987, also a director of Johnson & Johnson; Christopher J. Steffen, Senior Executive Vice President, Citicorp and Citibank N.A., director since 1993, was an officer of Honeywell Inc. from 1989 to 1993; Franklin A. Thomas, President, The Ford Foundation, director since 1970, also a director of American Telephone & Telegraph Company, CBS Inc. and Cummins Engine Company, Inc.; Edgar S. Woolard Jr., Chairman & CEO, E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., director since 1987, also a director of International Business Machines Corp. Directors Lawrence E. Fouraker and Donald V. Seibert retired. The current directors and executive officers of Citicorp as a group beneficially owned approximately 1.98% of Citicorp's outstanding shares. Fidelity Management & Research Company, a subsidiary of FMR Corp. of Boston, owned approximately 7.22% of Citicorp's outstanding common stock. His Royal Highness Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Al Saud held shares of non-voting Convertible Preferred Stock, Series 12, which were convertible into common stock representing approximately 9.68% of Citicorp's common stock outstanding.

"Bank commits millions in fight against cancer." Citibank press release, Nov 15, 2000. "Citibank USA has introduced two new credit cards that directly contribute to the fight against cancer [sic], America's number one personal health concern. Through a relationship with the American Cancer Society, the nation's leading voluntary health organization, Citibank has also committed to boost the organization's mission reach through Citibank's employees and customers..." It is expected to generate $15 million over a period of five years.

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