E. Virgil Neal & Co. (private bank)
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E. Virgil Neal & Co. was a New York-based private bank, managed by E. Virgil Neal, its namesake, along with Anton Masterson, C. W. Robbins, and Lila M. Wilson. According to Neal, in a 1903 interview with The Sun newspaper, the bank had "upwards of twenty" stockholders and deposits totalling "about $35,000."
Press Coverage
- "WORRIED ABOUT NEAL & CO.: DEPOSITORS, YOU SEE, DON'T LIKE HYPNOTISM IN BANKING. Not Exactly Run on the What-Dy'e-Call-It Bank, but Some of the Folks With Money in It Wanted to Know, You Know — So Mr. Neal Explains Again.", The Sun (New York, NY): 6, 4 Mar. 1903, https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/207218254/ — in which it is revealed that Neal's banking enterprise was housed in the same building, 1931 Broadway, on the same floor, the fourth, as his other concern, the Columbia Scientific Academy