George C. Fullinweider Biography


	This biography appears on pages 509-510 in "History of Dakota Territory" 
	by George W. Kingsbury, Vol. IV (1915) and was scanned, 
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				GEORGE C. FULLINWEIDER

	During the entire period of his active life George C. 
Fullinweider has been connected with the banking business and in this 
field has risen to a place of prominence and importance, being today 
connected through official service with some of the leading banks of 
South Dakota. Since 1897 he has been identified with financial 
interests of Huron as an officer in the National Bank of Huron, an 
institution of which he is now president. Mr. Fullinweider understands 
the banking business in principle and detail and has built an unusual 
degree of success upon experience and knowledge. He was born in 
Crawford county, Indiana, November 11, 1872, and is a son of Clay and 
Amina Fullinweider, the former of whom passed away in 1872. In the 
following year the mother removed to Decorah, Iowa.

	George C. Fullinweider was reared in Iowa and supplemented a 
public-school education by a course in Breckenridge Institute. After he 
laid aside his textbooks he secured a position as bookkeeper in a bank 
at Estherville and was retained in this connection for seven years, 
after which he removed to Huron, South Dakota, where he has since 
resided. He has been connected with the National Bank of Huron for many 
years, serving in an efficient and capable manner as cashier for some 
time. Since January, 1911, he has been president of the institution and 
is recognized in financial circles as a man of executive ability, 
energy and power. The other officers are as follows: W. N. Farmer, vice 
president; H. C. Shober, vice president; and Camden Rayburn, cashier. 
The board of directors is composed of these officers and of the 
following additional members: B. E. Beach, A. A. Chamberlain, Neil 
McKay and F. R. Brumwell. The National Bank of Huron has a capital 
stock of fifty thousand dollars and the surplus and undivided profits 
amount to about fifteen thousand dollars. This institution was made a 
national bank in 1907, succeeding the Standard Savings Bank, a state 
institution, which was organized in 1896, following the discontinuance 
of the National Bank of Dakota. This in turn had been an outgrowth of 
the Traders Bank, a private institution. All of these banks have 
occupied the same building at the corner of Dakota and Second streets, 
in Huron, and Mr. Fullinweider was connected with the Standard Savings 
Bank as cashier and vice president. The National Bank of Huron is 
conducted along modern lines and its policy of progressiveness is 
tempered by a safe conservatism, which has made it one of the solid and 
substantial moneyed institutions of the state. Mr. Fullinweider gives a 
great deal of his time to the affairs of this bank but his connection 
with it does not form by any means his only business affiliation, for 
his interests have extended over a wide territory and he is now well 
known in banking circles of the state. He was the organizer and is now 
vice president of the First National Bank at Miller and is president of 
the Hitchcock State Bank, another institution which he founded. The 
First State Bank of Cavour also owes its foundation to his initiative 
and enterprise and he has been president of that institution since it 
was established. 

	In 1894 Mr. Fullinweider married Miss Ruth Ballard, of 
Estherville, Iowa, and both are well known in social circles of Huron. 
Mr. Fullinweider is a member of the Masonic blue lodge, chapter and 
commandery and belongs to the Modern Woodmen of America the Elks and 
the Knights of Pythias. He is a member of the Presbyterian church and 
gives his political allegiance to the republican party. For many years 
he has taken a prominent and active part in public affairs, serving in 
various positions of public trust and responsibility, acceptably 
filling the offices of alderman, school treasurer and city treasurer. 
All who have had business, official or social relations with him accord 
him their unqualified respect and esteem, while in financial circles he 
occupies a position of precedence, won through many years of capable 
and intelligent effort along this line.