Nutmeg Nationals

The First National Bank of New Haven was the second National Bank to receive their charter along with the first grouping of 5 in 1863 and its low charter number has made it a desired bank among Nationals collectors.

This is one of a few banks which liquidated, reorganized under a different charter, and then recovered their original charter number. In May of 1882, The First National Bank liquidated and was succeeded by Charter 2682 under the same title. The bank regained its original Charter 2 in March of 1909 and kept the FNB title until it changed for good in 1928 to The First National Bank and Trust Company.

The First National Bank assumed the Yale National Bank (796) through consolidation in 1917 and further absorbed The Merchants National Bank (1128) in 1932.

Trowbridge had begun his career with FNB when he was 16 as a messenger for the bank. He had worked his way through the ranks and at one time had been the bank’s Vice President in 1921.

Crawford was also the president of the Connecticut Bankers Association in 1933, and Steele in 1939.

Invitation to the renovation of the new headquarters at 1 Church Street