The United Bank - An Update

Published in the December 2023 Penny Bank Post | Written by By Bob & Dee Vicic

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Our first article on the United Bank, Moore #1100, was published in the April, 2001 issue of the Penny Bank Post.

Pictured to the left and below are the side and front, respectively, of this cast iron bank.

This updated article provides more information about the history of the bank in Cleveland, the master wood carvings used in the creation of the cast iron bank, and other updates.

The historical information on the banking institutions for this article was taken from the book On The Grow With Cleveland by Rose Marie Jolly. It is a brief history of Cleveland and the Central National Bank of Cleveland, Ohio on the occasion of the bank’s seventy-fifth anniversary, 1890–1965.

It should be noted that in 1929, Central National Bank and United Bank merged and the following information provides names and dates of . . .