Union Trust Company (New York, NY)

Episode Information

Episode UID
1019171294
Episode Type
Run โ†’ Suspension โ†’ Closure
Bank Type
private
Bank ID
101917 routing
Routing Number
1-0191
Start Date
October 24, 1907
Location
New York, New York (40.714, -74.006)

Metadata

Model
gpt-5-mini (chosen from majority vote of a three-model LLM ensemble)
Short Digest
a262ee721d930607

Response Measures

None

Description

Articles show a run and closure/suspension with a receiver named, but reporting is slightly inconsistent about temporary vs. permanent closure.

Events (3)

1. October 24, 1907 Run
Cause
Macro News
Cause Details
Part of the broader Panic of 1907 with runs on multiple trust companies and general financial storm.
Measures
Support agreement among trust company presidents to pool/deposit stock and provide support; additional gold engaged by correspondents.
Newspaper Excerpt
RUN ON UNION TRUST CO.
Source
newspapers
2. October 25, 1907 Suspension
Cause
Macro News
Cause Details
Suspension followed heavy withdrawals and the wider trust company crisis during October 1907.
Newspaper Excerpt
the Providence and the Union Trust closed their doors this morning
Source
newspapers
3. October 26, 1907 Receivership
Newspaper Excerpt
suspended payment temporarily. C. S. Sweetland was appointed receiver.
Source
newspapers

Newspaper Articles (4)

Article from The News-Democrat, October 24, 1907

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NEW YORK SITUATION BRIGHTER, BUT THREE MORE BANKS SHUT TO THE PEOPLE:-There is no doubt that the Providence Banking Institutions are sound, ably conducted Small Institutions, the Hamilton, nd have ample resources. DON'T BE FRIGHTENED ! Empire City Savings and 12th Ward Banks, Suspend Payments. More Money Deposited in Trust RUN ON UNION TRUST CO. GARDNER TELLS Company of America Than Taken Out-"Things Look Pretty Good BY SMALL DEPOSITORS Now," Says Sec'y Cortelyou. WHY HONEST MEN


Article from Seward Weekly Gateway, October 26, 1907

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SEVERAL BANKS QUIT BUSINESS Suspensions of Financial Houses in New York Coming Every Day Now. By Cable to The Daily Gateway. New York, Oct 25 - The Exchange bank, the Bronx Borough bank, the Providence and the Union Trust closed their doors this morning,


Article from The Ocala Evening Star, October 26, 1907

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We Have Just Received a Lot of Italian Hand-Painted China OCALA MUSIC CO. THE RECEDING WAVES by the Union Trust Company, on which a run was made, that it had the Financial Storm Wreck a Few suspended payment temporarily. C. S. Sweetland was appointed receiver. Small Institutions. The institution has individual deposits New York, Oct. 26.-Notwithstandexceeding $25,000,000. the opinion of leading financiers, Runs on the Lincoln Trust Co. and the worst of the financial flurry the Trust Company of North Amerover, four bank suspensions OCica and other local institutions conrred yesterday. tinued, but the worst is over. The Pittsburg stock exchange is The United States Exchange Bank, still closed. Harlem institution, did not open for


Article from Bismarck Daily Tribune, November 7, 1907

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New York, N. Y., Nov. 6.-General conditions in the financial situation were favorable today. Runs on trust companies had practically ceased under the encouraging support of the trust compact. Gold engagements were further increased and the stock market rose buoyantly. The announcement by Mr. King, president of the Union Trust Co., early in the morning that aa agreement had been reached by which the Trust Company of American and Lincoln Trust company were to deposit their stock with a committee of trust company presidents and in consideration of this, were to receive all the support required, cleared the trust company situation. Now that this danger is removed, it is believed the situation will gradually simmer down with the continuous arrival of gold, until the stringency is converted into a plethora of reserve money in the banks, which usually follows a crisis. Additional gold engaged was announced today of $1,000,000 on account of Lazard Freres and $500,000 for Montreal. This brings the total gold engagements for America to $37,500,000, which would make a legal reserve against deposits of $150,000,000. The gold which arrived yesterday was deposited today and that brought by the Lusitania will soon be in the vaults. While there is still some apprehension regarding the possible effort of