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But Also Good Business: Texas Commerce Banks and the Financing of Houston and Texas, 1886-1986, For more than a century the Houston area has grown steadily and at times spectacularly. The lifeblood of the region's development has been the flow of credit; its heart, the banks that have pumped investment dollars through the economy, and particularly T, But Also Good Business: Texas Commerce Banks and the Financing of Houston and Texas, 1886-1986

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But Also Good Business: Texas Commerce Banks and the Financing of Houston and Texas, 1886-1986
Written by author Walter L. Buenger
Published by Texas A&M University Press, June 2000
For more than a century the Houston area has grown steadily and at times spectacularly. The lifeblood of the region's development has been the flow of credit; its heart, the banks that have pumped investment dollars through the economy, and particularly T
For more than a century the Houston area has grown steadily and at times spectacularly. The lifeblood of the region's development has been the flow of credit; its heart, the banks that have pumped investment dollars through the economy, and particularly T

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Preface xiii
Chapter 1. Introduction: A Century of Growth by a Bank and Its Region 3
Chapter 2. The Rise of Houston and Its Banks, 1886-1914 12
Chapter 3. Creating a New Banking Order, 1905-14 40
Chapter 4. Jazz Banking in Boomtown, 1914-29 64
Chapter 5. Avoiding Disaster, 1929-33 90
Chapter 6. King Cotton and Its Banks Dethroned, 1929-45 109
Chapter 7. Creating Stability, 1933-45 132
Chapter 8. Responding to a World of Opportunities, 1945-56 146
Chapter 9. Merging for Size and Management Succession 177
Chapter 10. Financing a Maturing Region, 1956-71 210
Chapter 11. Industrial Management Comes to Texas Commerce 239
Chapter 12. From Bank to Bancshares, 1971-85 262
Chapter 13. Banking Amid Boom and Bust 303
Chapter 14. Conclusion: Banking and Regional Development 336
Appendices
A. Bank Directors 347
B. Bank Executive Officers: Biographical Sketches 371
C. Page One, Commerce National Bank Directors' Minutes 387
Notes 389
Bibliography 423
Index 435
Historical Highlights
Houston Banks and the Financing of the Ship Channel, 1911 23
William Bartlett Chew 28
James Everett McAshan 33
Jonas Shearn Rice and William Marsh Rice, Jr. 51
William Thomas Carter 54
Jesse Holman Jones 75
The Gulf Building 80
James Addison Baker 82
Roy Montgomery Farrar 99
Gainer B. Jones and Memories of the Bank Salvage Effort 105
Albert Dee Simpson 128
E. O. Buck and the Emergence of Modern Oil Lending 149
John E. Whitmore and the Formative Years of Real Estate Lending at NBC 161
A Journey to the East 170
An Epidemic of Management Succession Problems 179
Robert Pace Doherty 182
Tunneling Under the Unit Banking Law 194
The ABCs of Oil Production Payments 213
Producing Dollars from Concrete 227
The Brief Reign of Chairman Mecom 247
All in the Family 250
Ben Love and the Coming of Industrial Management 255
Oil Prices 307
The Texas Commerce Tower 325

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	Preface	xiii
Chapter 1.	Introduction: A Century of Growth by a Bank and Its Region	3
Chapter 2.	The Rise of Houston and Its Banks, 1886-1914	12
Chapter 3.	Creating a New Banking Order, 1905-14	40
Chapter 4.	Jazz Banking in Boomtown, 1914-29	64
Chapter 5.	Avoiding Disaster, 1929-33	90
Chapter 6.	King Cotton and Its Banks Dethroned, 1929-45	109
Chapter 7.	Creating Stability, 1933-45	132
Chapter 8.	Responding to a World of Opportunities, 1945-56	146
Chapter 9.	Merging for Size and Management Succession	177
Chapter 10.	Financing a Maturing Region, 1956-71	210
Chapter 11.	Industrial Management Comes to Texas Commerce	239
Chapter 12.	From Bank to Bancshares, 1971-85	262
Chapter 13.	Banking Amid Boom and Bust	303
Chapter 14.	Conclusion: Banking and Regional Development	336
	Appendices
A.	Bank Directors	347
B.	Bank Executive Officers: Biographical Sketches	371
C.	Page One, Commerce National Bank Directors' Minutes	387
	Notes	389
	Bibliography	423
	Index	435
	Historical Highlights
	Houston Banks and the Financing of the Ship Channel, 1911	23
	William Bartlett Chew	28
	James Everett McAshan	33
	Jonas Shearn Rice and William Marsh Rice, Jr.	51
	William Thomas Carter	54
	Jesse Holman Jones	75
	The Gulf Building	80
	James Addison Baker	82
	Roy Montgomery Farrar	99
	Gainer B. Jones and Memories of the Bank Salvage Effort	105
	Albert Dee Simpson	128
	E. O. Buck and the Emergence of Modern Oil Lending	149
	John E. Whitmore and the Formative Years of Real Estate Lending at NBC	161
	A Journey to the East	170
	An Epidemic of Management Succession Problems	179
	Robert Pace Doherty	182
	Tunneling Under the Unit Banking Law	194
	The ABCs of Oil Production Payments	213
	Producing Dollars from Concrete	227
	The Brief Reign of Chairman Mecom	247
	All in the Family	250
	Ben Love and the Coming of Industrial Management	255
	Oil Prices	307
	The Texas Commerce Tower	325