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R         Brinkerhoff-Faris Trust & Savings Company.

1077                Letter, 1911.

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This is a “Special Offer” form letter, dated 8 May 1911, from the Brinkerhoff-Faris Trust & Savings Company at Clinton in Henry County, Missouri, “To our many customers.”  Signed by Secretary and Treasurer H. P. Faris, the letter offered investments in deed of trust loans at a favor­able rate of interest.

 

According to the firm’s letterhead, the Brinkerhoff-Faris Trust & Savings Company was established in 1867 and incorporated in 1887, although there is no record of the firm on the Mis­souri Secretary of State’s website.  One of the firm’s namesake founders was probably William E. Brinkerhoff (See WHMC-Rolla collection R019), who later removed to Carthage, Missouri.  A collection of papers from the Brinkerhoff and Vial (later Brinkerhoff and Smith) Land Agency, 1867-1878, of Clinton has been cataloged as WHMC-Columbia collection C0055).

 

This “Special Offer” form letter offered investments in deed of trust loans returning 5½ % net income, through 10 July 1911.  Officers of the firm were John H. Lucas (President), Miss L. A. Demeritte (Vice-President), H. P. Faris (Secretary and Treasurer), and J. R. Winters (Assistant Secretary and Assistant Treasurer).  H. P. Faris was Herman P. Faris, one of Clinton’s leading citi­zens, and by 1919 “Judge” John H. Lucas was living in Kansas City.  According to a later chro­nology of Henry County, the Brinkerhoff-Faris Trust & Savings Bank closed its doors on 23 No­vember 1932, but managed to pay off the last of its depositors in February 1939.

 

 

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