. A modern history of New London County, Connecticut;. wifeof Charles F. Spooner, of New Bedford, Massachu-setts. Mr. Gibbs was a young man of nineteen when heentered the banking field of business activity and hehas never quitted it, but has gone from promotionto promotion until reaching his present position,that of cashier and director of the Thames NationalBank, leading financial institution of the city ofNorwich. His banking connection covers a periodof years, and all but about five of theseyears have been spent with the Thames NationalBank. He is a pleasing, effective speaker an
. A modern history of New London County, Connecticut;. wifeof Charles F. Spooner, of New Bedford, Massachu-setts. Mr. Gibbs was a young man of nineteen when heentered the banking field of business activity and hehas never quitted it, but has gone from promotionto promotion until reaching his present position,that of cashier and director of the Thames NationalBank, leading financial institution of the city ofNorwich. His banking connection covers a periodof years, and all but about five of theseyears have been spent with the Thames NationalBank. He is a pleasing, effective speaker and astrong writer on financial subjects, the chapter onbanks in the 1922 History of New London Countybeing from his pen largely. Nathan A. Gibbs was born in East Wareham,Massachusetts, May 21, 1857. He is a graduate ofWareham High School and Comers CommercialCollege of Boston, and at one period of his schoollife he attended Pierce Academy in Middleboro,Massachusetts, being a schoolmate of General Leon-ard Wood. On November 21, 1876, he entered the em-. cyUc6L>^.^^-4-<iM^ BIOGRAPHICAL 19 ploy of the Norwich Savings Society, Norwich, Con-necticut, an institution now approaching its centennialand there spent nearly five years as a clerk and book-keeper. On September l, 1881, he transferred hisallegiance to tlie Thames National Bank of Nor-wich, and continued there in a clerical position andas assistant teller until 1892, when he was madeteller. Ten years were spent at the tellers window,a period which expired on Octoebr i, 1902, when hewas made assistant cashier, a position lie filled years. On November 30, 1918, he was ap-pointed cashier, a post of great responsibility in theThames National, which he has most ably filled untilthe present (1922). Since August 15, 1914, he hasbeen a member of the board of directors of theThames National Bank and for thirty years he hasbeen a member of the board of trustees of the Nor-wich Savings Society, the institution in whi
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