Chester County and its people .. . fessor of OrganicScience in Bucknell University at Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. Hetakes an interest in public affairs, has been coroner of his countyand assistant surgeou in the Pennsylvania State National Guard, AND ITS PEOPLE. 711 He lias been a member of the State Board of Health since lS8fi,and of the State Board of Agriculture since 1889, and is now(1898) president of the State Board of Health. He is a memberof the State Medical Council, and of the State Dental is autiior of a series of school physiologies and of numerouspapers and pamphlets on hy
Chester County and its people .. . fessor of OrganicScience in Bucknell University at Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. Hetakes an interest in public affairs, has been coroner of his countyand assistant surgeou in the Pennsylvania State National Guard, AND ITS PEOPLE. 711 He lias been a member of the State Board of Health since lS8fi,and of the State Board of Agriculture since 1889, and is now(1898) president of the State Board of Health. He is a memberof the State Medical Council, and of the State Dental is autiior of a series of school physiologies and of numerouspapers and pamphlets on hygiene and sanitary science. The Chester County Homeopathic Medical Society was or-ganized in West Chester, July 21, 1898, the following officers:President, Dr. H. E. Williams, of Coatesville; Vice-president, Graham, of Kennett Square; Secretary, Dr. Charles , of West Chester; Treasurer, Dr. S. A. Mulliu, of WestChester, and Board of Censors, Drs. Hoopes, Taylor and new society meets CHAPTER XVII. BANKING AND INSURANCE. CHAPTER XVII. BANKING AND INSURANCE NATIONAL BANK OF CHESTER COUNTY—THE UNITED STATES BANK THE BANKING LAW OF 1814 COMMISSIONERS CHARTERS STOCKHOLDERS—FORM OF NOTES—BUILDINGS CAPITAL AND LOANS—OFFICERS—EARLY liANKlNG METHODS—SKETCHESOF THE VARIOUS BANKS, NATIONAL AND PRIVATE, THROUGH-OUT THE COUNTY INSURANCE — COMPANIES— OFFICERS RISKS LOSSES, ETC. The National Bank of Chester County has a history of unusualinterest. At the session of the Legislature of 1812-13 a movementwas made to establish twenty-flve new banks in the State. Thereason for this movement lay in the fact that the United StatesBank in Philadelphia, the fate of which had been decided by thecasting vote of Vice-President Clinton in the Senate of the UnitedStates, was about to wind up its affairs. The bill authorizing theestablishment of these twenty-five new banks was passed by theHouse of Representatives of Pennsylvania by a vote of
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