Word: wiggins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Much of its success has been due to Albert Henry ("Al") Wiggin, President 1911-17, Chairman of the Board 1918-21, holder of both jobs since 1921. Son of a smalltown, Massachusetts preacher, he could not afford to go to college. So, at 17, he got a clerk's job in a Boston bank; became an assistant national bank examiner at 23 and soon married Jessie Duncan Hayden of Boston. The panic of 1907 gave him his great opportunity. He had come to Manhattan shortly before. During the crisis J. P. Horgan found two young men upon whom he could...
...Wiggin is a financial giant; his counsel is eagerly sought. He is director and officer in about 30 financial, railroad and industrial organizations, member of a score of clubs, trustee of many philanthropic activities. All through he has kept his reputation of being "tremendously loyal. . . . generous to a fault ... of unlimited courage," of being a hard worker and player, "big, jovial, wholesome." Called by his first name more than any other Wall Street potentate, he is occasionally spoken of as "the man of a million friends...
...friends is Gates W. McGarrah, Chairman of the Board of the Mechanics & Metals, who will become Chairman of the Executive Committee of the new bank. (Mr. Wiggin will be Chairman of the combined Board.) He too started banking early, at 18; came to Manhattan and has remained active in banking there more than 40 years. In 1902 he was made President of the old Leather Manufacturers' Bank and, when the Mechanics & Metals absorbed it, became President of the combination in 1904; Chairman of the Board in 1922. He is a director of the German Reichsbank, being on its General Board...
Died. George C. Riggs, second husband of the late Kate Douglas Wiggin (famed novelist); at Saranac Lake...
Three of the five gunmen who held up C. H. Wiggin 2G.B. and A. F. Head 1G.B. on Oxford Street last Saturday night have been caught and are now being held until they are positively identified by the students as their assailants. They are believed by the police to be part of a gang of bandits that are responsible for many recent daring robberies in this vicinity. Three others are now in custody and are being held for the murder of a policeman Sunday in Hyde Park, and also for holding up the Mt. Auburn Garage. They were traced because...