Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1895-06-12
ESBORO Il. & Y. co.
Retirement Of +. A. Shipley as Cashier
New Officers,

'HS ioiio"inS uHHntu BeHlleIleD were
elected directors for the ensuing year:
j. D. Cox, A. S. N. Dobson, w. G.
Mathes, E. III. Bachman, l. E. Reeves,
s. j. Kirkpatrick, A. P. Mathcs, NJ. S.
Elsea, w. A. Crookshanks, c. H. Diehl
and E. A. Shipley.
A directors meeting was held, but
was adjourned over until Saturday,
June 8, at which meeting the following
named gentlemen were elected as Of
ficers for the ensuing year:
j. d. Cox, President; T. ]. Peoples,
Cashier; H. II. Kirkpatrick, Assistant
Cashier; s. j. Kirkpatrick. Attorney.
By the foregoing it will be seen that
Mr.. Shipley has retired from official
connection with the bank, and in view
OF this fact the following sketch of his
business career since coming to Jones.
boro is entirely appropriate, and will
interest his many friends in Jonesboro
as we'll as elsewhere: Mr.. Shipley fret
came to Jonesboro permanently in
1870, and engaged actively as a mer.
chant and followed this pursuit until
1875, when he entered the Circuit Court
Clerks office as deputy in charge and
attended these duties until 1878, and
was then elected County Court Clerk,
serving one term of four years; was
reelected to same office in 1882 and
served until 1886, when he voluntarily
retired. Soon after this was elected
Chairman of the County Court, and
while holding this position was elected
Cashier of the Jonesboro Banking and
Trust Co., retiring at his own will from
the Chairman's Office in 1891. Was
six times elected cashier of the bank,
serving six years, retiring at his own
instance in this month. During all
these periods of public service Mr.. Ship.
ley has had in charge various estates,
&C., of complicated character, and
has in no instance betrayed any trust
confded. His public services in the
various capacities named has covered
very near consecutively a period of
twenty years. His only reasons for re-
firing from the bank is because of over
work and accumulation of private bust
ness.
Mr.. Shipley has been one of our most
successful, conservative business men,
and after so many years of official la
Dor has earned a rest, but those who
know him, and his capacity for bust
ness are well aware that he will always
be found in active participation in all
enterprises that may be inaugurated
here, and had we more men of equal
public spirit it would be better for the
community. We heartily wish him a
peaceful and successful future.
In the selection of T. j. Peoples as
successor to Mr.. Shipley in the office of
cashier the directors done the proper
thing. Mr.. Peoples has been associated
with Mr.. Shipley as Assistant Cashier
for five years, and has cultivated q
natural business inclination that has
made him entirely familiar with the
business of banking in its many fea-
lures, and he is therefore peculiarly
well fitted for the position. To his
many friends this is, perhaps, unnec.
cessary to say, but it is due him as a
business man, and it affords us great
pleasure to speak this of one of our
we'll known citizens.
In the election of H. H. kirkpatrick
as Assistant Cashier, the directors made
no mistake nor or they trying an ex-
pertinent. Mr.. kirkpatrick is no novice
in banking business, he having had
some four years training as assistant
cashier and book keeper in our local
banks; aside from which he was con-
nected in a business way with the En-
breville Iron Co. Hugh, as his many
friends call him, will be pleased to
learn of his preferment and we are sure
will unite with us in congratulations.
In another column will be found the
Eighteenth Semi-Annual Statement of
the bank, and it should be a source of
satisfaction to the many friends of this
institution 10 read the evidences of
prosperity therein shown.