Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 August 1897 — BANKERS AT DETROIT. [ARTICLE]

BANKERS AT DETROIT.

Leading Financiers of the CountryMeet in Convention. The spacious opera house at Detroit was filled to overflowing Tuesday morning at the opening of the twenty-third annual convention of the American Bankers’ Association. The retiring president, Robert J. Lowry, president of the Lowry Banking Company of Atlanta, Ga., called the gathering to order promptly at 10 o’clock. In its representative character the convention was even more influential than last year’s gathering at St. Louis, every section of the country being largely represented by the presidents, cashiers or other officers of national and State banks. Prayer having been offered by Rev. Henry A. Shopman of the Society of Jesuits, president of Detroit College, the roll of delegations was called and welcoming addresses were in order. Gov. Pingree spoke felicitously for the State, Mayor Maybury for the city and E. H. Butler, chairman of the Detroit clearing house, for the bankers of the city and State.