XVIII. The Sale of the State Stock

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Preface 5
3. Contents 11
4. Part I. The Period Before 1830
5. I. Economic Conditions in Early Missouri 17
6. II. National Conditions Affecting Early Missouri Banking 30
7. III. Early and Unfortunate Ventures in Banking and Currency 47
8. IV. Some Early Experiences in Sound Banking 82
9. Part II. The Period of Monopoly
10. V. The Demand for a State Bank 103
11. VI. The Passage of the Bank Bill 124
12. VII. The Charter 134
13. VIII. How the Charter was Made 145
14. IX. The Organization of the Bank 161
15. X. The State Bank and the Panic of 1837 169
16. XI. The Fight Against Unsound Money 179
17. XII. The Career of the Bank, 1843–1857 188
18. XIII. An Economic and Statistical Study of the Accounts of the Bank 200
19. Part III. The Break-Down of Banking Monopoly
20. XIV. Private Banking and Business Development 227
21. XV. The Demand for Additional Banking Capital 241
22. XVI. The Legislation of 1857 and Banking Progress;until the Outbreak of the Civil War 249
23. XVII. Missouri Banking During the Civil War 269
24. XVIII. The Sale of the State Stock 283
25. Part IV. The Final Period
26. XIX. The National Bank of the State of Missouri 295
27. XX. The Failure of the Bank 300
28. Bibliography 314
29. Appendix 321