Bio of JAFFRAY, Clive Talbot (b.1865), Hennepin Co., MN
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EXTRACTED FROM: History of Minneapolis, Gateway to the Northwest; 
Chicago-Minneapolis, The S J Clarke Publishing Co, 1923; Edited by: Rev. 
Marion Daniel Shutter, D.D., LL.D.; Volume I - Shutter (Historical); 
volume II - Biographical; volume III - Biographical
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Vol II, pg 277
CLIVE TALBOT JAFFRAY
Clive Talbot Jaffray, who since 1917 has been president of the First National
Bank of Minneapolis and thus occupies a prominent position in the front ranks of
the leading financiers of the Northwest, is a Canadian by birth, the place of
his nativity being Berlin, Ontario, and the date July 1, 1865. He is a son of W.
and Agnes S. Jaffray and his youthful days were largely spent in the acquirement
of a public school education in his native city. He has practically devoted his
entire life to the banking business, receiving his initial training in this
connection as an employe in the Merchants' Bank of Canada at Berlin. He spent
five years in that institution, receiving thorough and comprehensive training
and applying himself assiduously to the mastery of every phase of the banking
business that came under his direction in the various positions which he filled.
In 1887 he came to Minneapolis and accepted a clerical position in the
Northwestern National Bank. Again his fidelity, earnestness of purpose and
capability won him promotion and after two years he was made bookkeeper, while
in 1890 he was assigned to the position of assistant cashier, there remaining
until 1895, when he was offered the cashiership of the First National Bank of
Minneapolis, which was already one of the leading financial institutions of the
city. He has contributed to its further growth and development and has been
active in directing its course and shaping its policy in official positions for
more than twenty-seven years. He retired from the cashiership on being elected
to the vice presidency and in 1917 he was elected to the presidency of this
bank, of which he is now the chief executive official. His thorough and
comprehensive training has been an essential feature in the continued
development of the bank under his direction and his judgment is regarded as most
sound and his sagacity keen, while his broad vision has compassed many of the
aspects of banking problems in their widest and most complex phases. Mr. Jaffray
is also identified with the First National Bank of Sleepy Eye, Minnesota, as one
of its directors, and is a well known figure in insurance circles, being
interested in the Northwestern Life Insurance Company and the Northwestern Fire
and Marine Insurance Company, while of the Minneapolis Trust Company he is the
vice president.
Mr. Jaffray's social qualities make for personal popularity and he is a highly
esteemed member of the Minneapolis and Minikahda clubs. Aside from hunting he
finds his chief recreation on the links, being a devotee of the game of golf. He
allows nothing, however, to interfere with the faithful performance of his
duties as a bank official and has ever held to the highest ideals concerning the
safeguarding of the interests entrusted to his care.