Personal 'lawyer' check, 8.25 x 3.5, filled out and signed by Calvin Coolidge as a Massachusetts senator, payable to the Nonotuck Savings Bank for $900, July 20, 1912. In fine condition.
Per the website American Bankers Association, Banking Journal: ‘At about the time that Calvin Coolidge entered the practice of law in Northampton, Mass., a new mutual savings bank was established. Mr. Coolidge established his offices in the same building and adjoining those of the Nonotuck Savings Bank. It was only natural that the treasurer of the savings bank should call upon Mr. Coolidge to tend to the legal work of the bank. The bank grew very rapidly and must have kept Mr. Coolidge rather busy searching titles for the real estate mortgages and giving legal advice to the officers.
Until public service required Mr. Coolidge to spend a larger part of his time in Boston, he visited the bank almost daily. The bank commenced business in April 1899, and at the first meeting of the corporators, Mr. Coolidge’s name was added to the list of the corporators. At the next annual meeting, he filled a vacancy on the board of trustees...
In 1902 he was elected a vice president of the bank. During his term as Lieutenant-Governor of Massachusetts, the office of the president of the bank was vacated, and Mr. Coolidge was elected to this position, which he filled until 1921, when he tended his resignation, as his duties in Washington did not permit attendance to the duties incumbent upon the office. As far as we know, the Nonotuck Savings Bank is the only bank in which Mr. Coolidge has ever held office.’
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