Tour of First National Bank of Fort Collins

Found this great historical archive of photos of the bank where my paternal great-granduncle, William Clifford LeMASTER, was cashier back in the early 1910s.  This is an online reproduction of the original 1908 brochure.  It is a great view of what the bank looked like at the time.


There is even a photograph that may show W.C. LeMASTER at work.  It is the photograph of the "Cashier's Room."


I found it interesting that the bank featured a "Ladies' Waiting Room", complete with amenities to appeal to female customers.


Here is the bank's listing in the United States Congressional serial set of 1907 listing the bank and W.C. LeMaster as cashier on Google books:

A Bit About Starling Medical College

My paternal great-granduncle, Ord Otterbein LeMASTER, graduated from Starling Medical College in Columbus, Ohio in 1902.  Searching the net for more information about the school, I discovered the following website, which gave a bit of information about Starling and medicinal practices of the early 20th century.

Starling was the first medical teaching college in the United States. Most aspiring physicians just a few years earlier had “read medicine” under the tutelage of a respected physician, much as future lawyers then “read the law.”

Makes you wonder how anyone survived being treated by earlier physicians, doesn't it?  

Will of William Clifford LeMaster (1871-1922)

Record of the Last Will and Testament of W.C. LeMaster, Deceased


Victor, Colorado, July 10, 1922


I, W.C. LeMaster being of sound mind declare this my last will;


I give to my sons Ralph M. and W.C. LeMaster Jr. and my daughter Lella E. LeMaster the sum of one dollar each.


To my wife Pannel Brown LeMaster I will 25 shares of New Isis Theatre stock and M.W. Kersey notes of 600 - interest one half of stock in Foster Oil Co., and one half in J.W. Carruthers Oil stock.


To my daughter Gladys A. Moser all stocks, bonds & property of every description not mentioned above, including Chevrolet car - and, I request all funeral expenses, be paid jointly by my wife and daughter Gladys - as well as hospital bill, first exhausting any money I may have in bank toward same -


I ask the Court to appoint my wife Pannel B. LeMaster & daughter Gladys A. Moser joint executrixs without bond.


Witness my hand & seal this 10 day of July, 1922


W.C. LeMaster


Witnesses: Robert E. Roberts, Chris Larsen


Presented for filing and probate by Pannel B. LeMaster this fifth day of September, A.D. 1922


K.C. Gustin, clerk


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This transcription is of the last will and testament of my paternal great-granduncle, William Clifford LeMASTER (1871-1922).  There is much of interest in this will, not the least of which is that he remarried after divorcing his first wife, Lella Edith LEWIS.


In the 1920 census of Victor, Teller County, Colorado, William and his son Ralph were living in the household of Francis Hall, the proprietor of a restaurant.  William's occupation was listed as the proprietor of a theatre.  Also living in the household was 34 year old Pannill W. BROWN, born in Texas, an organist in the theatre.  

Sometime between 1920 and 1922, William and Pannill must have married.  I wrote to the clerk's office in Teller County, but was unsuccessful in obtaining a record.