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Bank Officer Name: W. A. Chess
Banker Full Name: William Albert Chess
Gender:
Bank Note Signer?:
Home Bank:
First National Bank
Monrovia, CA
Los Angeles County
Banker ID: 37391
 
Birth:
June 9, 1853
Brownsville, Cass Co., MI
Death:
May 18, 1932
home at Highland Place (buried Monrovia)
 
Bio Links: BNHWiki • Other Bio • FindAGrave
 
Comments:
Bus. and commercial Law in Clinton, IA
worked in Cassopolis, MI; 1887 came to
Monrovia, CA; 1890 bookkeeper in FNB;
retired in 1925; 2 term city treasurer

Banker served in these Banks

  1. First National Bank, Monrovia, CA
    (Cashier 1895-1923; Asst Cashier 1894) NB 3743
W. A. Chess (Source: Financial California, 1916)

Officer Name Variations

  1. W. A. Chess

 

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