ALBERT GRANGER IVES
STARTS 60th YEAR AS BANKER
APRIL 1, 1940
(from Scranton newspapers)
Sixty years is a long time to work in any establishment or for one employer. It covers the average span of life, shows ability and attention to duty on the one hand and consideration and appreciation on the other. Albert G. Ives, vice president of the First National Bank, began work as a messenger boy with that institution sixty years ago today. There may be some other men in Scranton who have a record of longer continuous employment with the same institution but they are mighty few.
Mr. Ives has served under five of the six presidents of the First National. He was given his job by James A. Linen, Sr., then cashier and later president. It is related that on April 1, 1880, Mr. Ives, then a boy of fourteen, was a member of Mr. Linen's Sunday School Class in the Second Presbyterian Church. He was the first one around that morning. Mr. Linen also came early. The two talked. Mr. Linen asked the boy how he would like to become a banker. Albert responded affirmatively and was given a job as messenger in the bank. He started at $15 a month.
The First National, located on Lackawanna Avenue at the intersection of Wyoming, had seven employees and had been in existence since 1863. Today the First National employs 250. Joseph Albright, whose family was later to give the city the Albright building for public library purposes, was president. At that time the bank had deposits of about $700,000. Today its assets are in excess of $70,000,000.
Mr. Ives in his sixty years with the First National had held many positions. For forty years he was in a teller's cage and has handled hundreds of millions of dollars. Today he is vice president in charge of the currency department. Needless to say he had witnessed great changes in Scranton and in the banking business, yet for all his long years of service, is today a vigorous, erect man, held in esteem by officers and employees of the bank.
STARTS 60th YEAR AS BANKER
APRIL 1, 1940
(from Scranton newspapers)
Sixty years is a long time to work in any establishment or for one employer. It covers the average span of life, shows ability and attention to duty on the one hand and consideration and appreciation on the other. Albert G. Ives, vice president of the First National Bank, began work as a messenger boy with that institution sixty years ago today. There may be some other men in Scranton who have a record of longer continuous employment with the same institution but they are mighty few.
Mr. Ives has served under five of the six presidents of the First National. He was given his job by James A. Linen, Sr., then cashier and later president. It is related that on April 1, 1880, Mr. Ives, then a boy of fourteen, was a member of Mr. Linen's Sunday School Class in the Second Presbyterian Church. He was the first one around that morning. Mr. Linen also came early. The two talked. Mr. Linen asked the boy how he would like to become a banker. Albert responded affirmatively and was given a job as messenger in the bank. He started at $15 a month.
The First National, located on Lackawanna Avenue at the intersection of Wyoming, had seven employees and had been in existence since 1863. Today the First National employs 250. Joseph Albright, whose family was later to give the city the Albright building for public library purposes, was president. At that time the bank had deposits of about $700,000. Today its assets are in excess of $70,000,000.
Mr. Ives in his sixty years with the First National had held many positions. For forty years he was in a teller's cage and has handled hundreds of millions of dollars. Today he is vice president in charge of the currency department. Needless to say he had witnessed great changes in Scranton and in the banking business, yet for all his long years of service, is today a vigorous, erect man, held in esteem by officers and employees of the bank.
ALBERT GRANGER IVES
STARTS 60th YEAR AS BANKER
APRIL 1, 1940
(from Scranton newspapers)
Sixty years is a long time to work in any establishment or for one employer. It covers the average span of life, shows ability and attention to duty on the one hand and consideration and appreciation on the other. Albert G. Ives, vice president of the First National Bank, began work as a messenger boy with that institution sixty years ago today. There may be some other men in Scranton who have a record of longer continuous employment with the same institution but they are mighty few.
Mr. Ives has served under five of the six presidents of the First National. He was given his job by James A. Linen, Sr., then cashier and later president. It is related that on April 1, 1880, Mr. Ives, then a boy of fourteen, was a member of Mr. Linen's Sunday School Class in the Second Presbyterian Church. He was the first one around that morning. Mr. Linen also came early. The two talked. Mr. Linen asked the boy how he would like to become a banker. Albert responded affirmatively and was given a job as messenger in the bank. He started at $15 a month.
The First National, located on Lackawanna Avenue at the intersection of Wyoming, had seven employees and had been in existence since 1863. Today the First National employs 250. Joseph Albright, whose family was later to give the city the Albright building for public library purposes, was president. At that time the bank had deposits of about $700,000. Today its assets are in excess of $70,000,000.
Mr. Ives in his sixty years with the First National had held many positions. For forty years he was in a teller's cage and has handled hundreds of millions of dollars. Today he is vice president in charge of the currency department. Needless to say he had witnessed great changes in Scranton and in the banking business, yet for all his long years of service, is today a vigorous, erect man, held in esteem by officers and employees of the bank.
STARTS 60th YEAR AS BANKER
APRIL 1, 1940
(from Scranton newspapers)
Sixty years is a long time to work in any establishment or for one employer. It covers the average span of life, shows ability and attention to duty on the one hand and consideration and appreciation on the other. Albert G. Ives, vice president of the First National Bank, began work as a messenger boy with that institution sixty years ago today. There may be some other men in Scranton who have a record of longer continuous employment with the same institution but they are mighty few.
Mr. Ives has served under five of the six presidents of the First National. He was given his job by James A. Linen, Sr., then cashier and later president. It is related that on April 1, 1880, Mr. Ives, then a boy of fourteen, was a member of Mr. Linen's Sunday School Class in the Second Presbyterian Church. He was the first one around that morning. Mr. Linen also came early. The two talked. Mr. Linen asked the boy how he would like to become a banker. Albert responded affirmatively and was given a job as messenger in the bank. He started at $15 a month.
The First National, located on Lackawanna Avenue at the intersection of Wyoming, had seven employees and had been in existence since 1863. Today the First National employs 250. Joseph Albright, whose family was later to give the city the Albright building for public library purposes, was president. At that time the bank had deposits of about $700,000. Today its assets are in excess of $70,000,000.
Mr. Ives in his sixty years with the First National had held many positions. For forty years he was in a teller's cage and has handled hundreds of millions of dollars. Today he is vice president in charge of the currency department. Needless to say he had witnessed great changes in Scranton and in the banking business, yet for all his long years of service, is today a vigorous, erect man, held in esteem by officers and employees of the bank.
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