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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bank vice-presidency in East St. Louis, Ill., was his stepping-stone to Chicago. There banker James B. Forgan took him into his First Trust & Savings Bank and with that potent backing and his own brilliant acumen he rose like a rocket to the presidency of the First National Bank of Chicago which he holds today...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Charter Men | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

...Austin Bard, partner in Bard & Co., President of C. I. C., was a three-letter man (Baseball, Basketball, Football) at Princeton (class of 1906). His club list includes Chicago, University, Attic, Industrial, Commonwealth, Exmoor, Monterey Peninsula Country (California), Mountain Lake (Florida). Other C. I. C. men include James B. Forgan Jr., of the famed Scotch banking family, vice president of Chicago's First National; Alfred Ernest Hamill, of Hathaway & Co. (commercial paper), also of Scotch-Irish banking ancestry; William H. Mitchell of Mitchell, Hutchins & Co. (brokers) ; Dudley Gates, vice president of Marsh & McLennan, Inc. (insurance) ; Henry L. Hanley, executive vice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Chicago Buyers | 9/16/1929 | See Source »

David Robertson Forgan, "Dean of Chicago Bankers" (Vice Chairman of National Bank of the Republic) last week addressed the Rotary Club of St. Andrews, Scotland, where he was born 67 years ago. In accents from which 40 years in the Midwest have not yet rasped the St. Andrews burr,* he said: "If England went to war tomorrow, she could borrow as much money as she wanted. France could not raise a dollar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jul. 29, 1929 | 7/29/1929 | See Source »

...Seven years ago, while he was still founder-president of the since-merged National City Bank of Chicago, Scot Forgan was approached by two young men about to start a new business. They wanted him to buy some of their stock at $25 the share. Looking down his straight strong nose, Banker Forgan declared he could buy no stock. Said he: "I'm just a poor mon and I wor-rk for a sollery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jul. 29, 1929 | 7/29/1929 | See Source »

...president of Marshall Field & Co. since 1923, to be director of the New York Central R. R.; to fill directorate left by the late Chauncey M. Depew, who died two months ago (TIME, April 16). Only one other Chicagoan has sat on this board-the late James Berwick Forgan, president of the First National Bank of Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jun. 25, 1928 | 6/25/1928 | See Source »

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