Bestor, Norman

Scope and Contents note Records the first 500 shares of Riggs Bank stock sold publicly. For every stock sold, there is a receipt. For most of these stocks a canceled certificate is attached. Each certificate is printed with an emblem of the old headquarters and Riggs Bank centered at header. The certificate is numbered, shows the shareholder, the amount of stock purchased and includes the signatures of Riggs president Charles Glover and Riggs cashier Arthur Brice. On the reverse side, the stock holder indicates to...

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See pages 44 for Bestor and Berliner, 772-775 for Secretary of State, 966 for Wormley.

Scope and Contents note From the Series: Consists of a full run of Riggs & Co. individual deposit ledgers. Many of the ledgers have corresponding indexes. Please note that deposit ledgers without indexes will require significant research time to review for specific patron names because Riggs & Co. did not record patron records alphabetically within each letter. For instance, Brenner is followed by Blake then Boyle, then Barnes, then Berry, then Brown, etc. See flat boxes 58 and 99 for African American depositors identified...

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See pages 98-102 for Bestor, 624 for Grant, 842 for Hyde, 845 for Corcoran.

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Stored with corresponding ledger.