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Author: Author: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company

History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea,  Volume II, 
Pages 205-206

	Dr. C. B. Alexander, president of the American Security Bank of 
Vancouver, has gained wide recognition as a man of distinctive business 
ability, and his wise and judicious management of the bank’s affairs has 
gained for him an enviable place in banking circles of Washington, as well as 
in the confidence and esteem of the public.  The American Security Bank was 
established in July, 1918, by C. F. Wright, of the Bellows-Wright Company of 
Portland, Oregon, F. E. Bowman, Henry Cross, an attorney at Vancouver, D. E. 
Crandall and W. J. Knapp of Vancouver and others.  The capital stock was fifty 
thousand dollars and the bank has always been at its present location.  The 
first president was F. E. Bowman, who was succeeded by E. E. Sleret, after 
whom came Dr. Alexander.  The first cashier was D. E. Crandall, who was 
followed in order by W. E. Smith, Earl Ziegler and J. G. Raley.  The present 
officers and directors are as follows:  Dr. C. B. Alexander, president; J. H. 
Coffin and E. E. Sleret, vice president; J. G. Raley, cashier; J. N. Latham, 
F. J. Cotterall and Dr. R. W. Armstrong.  The bank has commercial and savings 
departments and has enjoyed a very prosperous career, being numbered among the 
strong and influential financial institutions of the Columbia River Valley.  
Its capital is fifty thousand dollars; it has a surplus of sixteen thousand 
dollars and total resources of about four hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
	Dr. Alexander was born and reared in Kentucky, in the public schools 
of which state he received his early educational training.  He then turned his 
attention to mercantile affairs, conducting a grocery and general store there 
for several years.  He determined to enter the medical profession and to that 
end matriculated in the Barnes Medical College at St. Louis, Missouri, from 
which he was graduated with the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1907.  He then 
located in Yakima, Washington, where he practiced his profession for six 
years, and during that period he organized the First National Bank of Mabton, 
Yakima county.  In 1913 the Doctor went to Alhambra, California, where he 
continued his medical practice and established the Alhambra Hospital.  There 
he was eminently successful, building up a large and lucrative practice, and 
while living in that state he also became identified with the banking 
business, organizing the Monterey Park Bank at Monterey Park.  In 1926 Doctor 
Alexander returned to Washington, locating at Vancouver, and soon afterward 
bought a controlling interest in the American Security Bank, of which he has 
since served as president.
	In 1900 Dr. Alexander married Miss Kate Desmond and to them have been 
born two children, Thelma and Reginald, both of whom are now attending school 
in California.  The Doctor is a member of the Masonic fraternity in which he 
has received the degrees of both the York and Scottish Rites; and is also 
connected with the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, the Kiwanis Club, the 
Chamber of Commerce, the Washington State Bankers Association and the American 
Banking Association.  The Doctor still gives some attention to the medical 
profession, particularly in surgery, but the greater part of his time is 
devoted to his banking interests.  He is alert and progressive in his ideas, 
thoroughly in sympathy with the spirit of the community, to the progress of 
which he gives of his influence and effort, and he is numbered among the 
representative men of the Columbia River Valley, being held in the highest 
regard by all who know him.


Additional Comments:
History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea, Volume II, 
Chicago, The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1928


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