Wapello County IA Archives Biographies.....Epperson, Frank 1876 - 
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Author: S. J. Clarke, Publisher

FRANK EPPERSON.

Frank Epperson, of Eddyville, is not only an important factor in local financial
circles as vice president and director of the Manning & Epperson State Bank, but
as president of the Iowa Bankers Association occupies a position which brings
him into contact with the banking interests of the state and nation.

Mr. Epperson was born in Eddyville, June 13, 1876, and is a son of F. M. and
Louise Epperson. He attended the public schools of his native city, laying aside
his text-books on May 20, 1894, in order to accept a position as a clerk in the
banking and general merchandise firm of Manning & Epperson. He has since made
continuous progress along this line, specializing today entirely in banking, and
is vice president of the Manning & Epperson State Bank. He is considered one of
the best judges of local conditions, and his advice is frequently sought in
regard to financial questions. While he is a man of more than ordinary executive
ability, he has a great capacity for detail and is thoroughly aware of the great
value of system. While Mr. Epperson is most progressive in promoting new
commercial and industrial enterprises by extending credit, he is cautious and
conservative in regard to the investments of the bank, his first consideration
always being the safety of his depositors. He is a man of unerring accuracy and
possesses in an extraordinary degree that sixth sense of the banker—intuition as
to character, rapid analysis of method, "what there is in a proposition"—in
short he knows whom and what to trust. During the panic of 1907 he was appointed
special state bank examiner and was elected vice president of the Iowa Bankers
Association in 1913, succeeding to the presidency in March, 1914, upon the death
of President D. L. Heimsheimer. Mr. Epperson was chairman of the state-wide
committee which appeared before the Reserve Bank Organization Committee in
Chicago in January, 1914, urging the alignment of the entire state of Iowa with
the Federal Reserve Bank to be located in Chicago.

Mr. Epperson is a progressive republican but yet a republican, sincere in his
adherence to that party. He has never desired public office, although he is ever
ready to promote public enterprise. Fraternally he is one of the oldest members
of Elks Lodge, No. 340, of Oskaloosa, Iowa, and he also belongs to the Hamilton
Club of Chicago.

On September 14, 1904, Frank Epperson married at Eddyville, Iowa, Louise, a
daughter of John and Katherine Jager, who was born on a farm near Eddyville and
was graduated from the Eddyville public school in 1902. She is a member of
Chapter DG, P. E. O. Mr. and Mrs. Epperson have a little daughter, Lynette, born
November 11, 1911.


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HISTORY OF WAPELLO COUNTY IOWA
ILLUSTRATED
VOLUME II
CHICAGO
THE S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY 1914


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