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G. W. Davidson Banking Company was organized. It was a brick
building on the south side of Main Street. |
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Within a few years they moved the business to 101 East Main
Street. On the top of this building was a stone slab engraved with the following:
G. W. Davidson & Co. Bankers. The engraved stone deteriorated over the following years
and was removed for safety reasons. It crumbled on removing. The premises of G. W. Davidson
at 101 East Main Street became the operation center of the merged Auburn Banking Company
in 1929. |
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G. W. Davidson was the first president. |
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Aaron McCarley was the second president. |
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Thomas Hamlin was the third president. |
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| 1900: |
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G. W. Davidson Banking Company reorganized from a private
company to a stock company. |
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| 1919: |
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G. W. Davidson died. |
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| 1927 |
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On Aug 8th Mr. Finis Wilson took up a position with G. W.
Davidson Banking having previously work in Greensburg. |
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| 1929: |
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G. W. Davidson Banking Company merged with the Bank of Auburn
on March 20, 1929 forming the Auburn Banking Company. |
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| Bank of Auburn |
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1929: |
Bank of Auburn was organized by a
stock company. Located in a store building near Aull & Co. drug store. It later
moved to a better location on the north corner, diagonally across from the Auburn Banking
Co. |
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1st President:
Dr. T. O. Helm |
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2nd President:
W.W. Walters |
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3rd President:
H. P. McCormick |
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4th President:
S.R. Stokes |
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| Auburn Banking Company |
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| 1929: |
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On March 20, 1929 the G. W.
Davidson Banking Company merged with the Bank of Auburn to form the Auburn Banking
Company. |
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| 1929- |
1938 |
1st President:
James Guthrie
Coke. |
| 1938- |
1958 |
2nd President: James
H. Bumpus. |
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3rd President;
Claude D. Pottinger |
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4th President:
Glenn Tinsley |
| 1995- |
2000 |
5th President:
Kenny Coleman. |
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2002 |
6th President
Robert Strickland |
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7th President
John Sheffield |
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| 1929: |
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The Auburn Banking Company
operated from the premises originally owned by the G. W. Davidson Banking Company at 101
East Main Street. The property was sold to Neal Insurance when the Bank moved to 102-104
West Main Street. The property was subsequently sold to Logan Telephone Coop who are the
present (1997) owners. |
| 1969: |
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The Auburn Banking Company moved
to its new custom built premises at 218 West Main Street. |
| 1995: |
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Auburn Banking Company announced
the proposed acquisition of its stock by the First Community Bancorp, Inc., a
Hopkinsville, Kentucky based holding company. Having received regulatory approval Auburn
Banking Company sold its stock to First Community Bancorp, Inc. on December 20, 1993. |
M. C. Neal - New
Director of Auburn Banking Co.
News-Democrat March 11, 1965
At a recent stockholders
meeting of the Auburn Banking Company, M. C. Neal, executive vice-president, was voted a
director of the bank.
Other directors are C. D.
Pottinger, G. B. Robbins, H. O. Finney, Archie Simmons, and J. H. Bumpus, honorary.
