- NORDAHL BRUNE SOLNER. N. B. SOLNER has been identified with
the banking interests
- of Nome since the early spring of 1900. He is the manager
of the Bank of Cape Nome, one of the leading banks of Alaska,
transacting a very large business in the Nome country. He came
to Nome in June, 1900, supervised the construction of the bank
building, and has since had the management of this financial
institution, which is doing its share to promote the welfare
of Seward Peninsula and develop the mineral resources of this
country.
- Mr. SOLNER is a native of Janesville, Wisconsin, and was
born January 10, 1864. In 1880 he
- entered the First National Bank of Moorehead, Minnesota,
and in 1884 was cashier of the Tobacco Exchange Bank of Edgerton,
Wisconsin. In 1886 he went to California on account of ill health.
Two years later he visited Seattle, where he obtained employment
as paying teller of the First National Bank of that city. He
has held other positions of responsibility and trust in banks,
and has had a most thorough training in all departments of the
banking business.
- Subsequent to the establishment of the Bank of Cape Nome
he was elected vice-president of that
- institution. In November, 1903, with James D. HOGE and other
representative citizens of Seattle, he organized the Union Savings
and Trust Co., of Seattle, and was selected as cashier of that
institution. This is one of the most successful banks ever organized
in the city of Seattle. In the brief period of its existence
it has accumulated more than $1,200,000 in deposits.
- Mr. SOLNER fills both positions—that of manager of the
Bank of Cape Nome, and cashier of
- the Union Savings and Trust Co., of Seattle. He visits Nome
during the summer seasons, and exercises a general supervision
over the Nome bank. The principal business of banks in Nome is
the purchase of gold dust, and the Bank of Cape Nome handles
annually $1,500,000 of the product of the mines of Seward Peninsula.
- Mr. SOLNER, by virtue of his training and natural aptitude
for the business, is a successful
- banker; he is a courteous and genial gentleman, exact in
business methods, punctilious in his work and the discharge of
the duties devolving upon him, and possessing an unusual clarity
of perception of the ways and means of building the business
to which he has devoted the years of his life since early manhood.
He has many friends in Nome who esteem him for his moral worth
and for the sterling qualities of his character.
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- [Taken from "Nome and Seward Peninsula" by E.
S. Harrison; (c)1912 The Metropolitan Press, Seattle; pp. 203-204]
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