History of the great Northwest and its men of progress : a select list of biographical sketches and portraits of the leaders in business, professional and official life . following the election of Iresident Cleveland, known in history as thepanic of 1893, when over three hundredbanks failed or suspended, and almost in-numerable factories, industrial and commer-cial establishments were ruined, the SecurityBank became involved, but never closed itsdoors until every obligation was paid in fulland the institution went into voluntary liquidation in November, 1895. The bank wasenabled to secure this
History of the great Northwest and its men of progress : a select list of biographical sketches and portraits of the leaders in business, professional and official life . following the election of Iresident Cleveland, known in history as thepanic of 1893, when over three hundredbanks failed or suspended, and almost in-numerable factories, industrial and commer-cial establishments were ruined, the SecurityBank became involved, but never closed itsdoors until every obligation was paid in fulland the institution went into voluntary liquidation in November, 1895. The bank wasenabled to secure this honorable record byMr. Websters sacrifice of his private fortune,even to the very home in which he Webster has always been a staunch Re-publican, as were his progenitors. In 1888he was chairman of the first county Kepub-lican committee organized in Cascade coun-ty, Mont. In 1S89 he was a member of thestate constitutional convention, where hisscholarship and legal training were of spe-cial value. From 1889 to 1891 he was presi-dent of the Great Falls city council. From1891 to 1892 school trusts. 1892-9:{ mayorof the city and again from 189o-97. In 1S9(;. rirAULES M. WECSTKI?. lit- was nominated for state treasurer on theIJe[iubli(an ticket, but failed of an election,although he ran 7,000 votes ahead of hisassociates on the ticket. In 1897-fl)01 hewas United States collector of internal reve-nue for Montana. Idaho and Utah. In 1900he was made chairman of the state Kepubli-can committee, which position he still June, 1901, he resigned the collector-ship of internal revenue, to accept the cus-toms coUectorship for Montana and Idaho,with headquarters at Great Falls. was married in May, 1892, to MissHelen Eloise Pettitt, daughter of S. I. Pet-titt. of Faribault, Minn. They have two chil-dren, a daughter of seven, and a son of tluiMyears of age. FULLERTON, Samuel , so wellknown in connection with the Game and FishCommission of the state of Min
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