General John Floyd was US Secretary of War in the 1850s during the Utah Expedition Mormon War. He renounced his offices in 1861 to go with the South on the start of the Civil War but left under a cloud as he was under investigation for embezzlement of huge sums of money from War Department contracts made by the government to supply western Army posts during the Mormon War. An Original pair of St Louis Missouri Bank items 1) An Original Letter from The Merchants Bank of St. Louis, dated June 16, 1863 Chief Cashier Richard F Barry to Attorney CP Goodrich in Boston re a report of an affiliated Savings Bank, he sends "Copies of the Floyd Acceptances " some belonging to this bank and to the Liberty Branch of the Farmers Bank of Missouri. 2pp 8 x 5" ptd/ink. minor edge wear, Overall VG. Comes with an Original large 18 x 11" Broadside on blue paper with black lettering, "Articles of Association of the North Saint Louis Savings Association detailing the formation of the Bank at St Louis Missouri. Minor edge wear, Overall Exc Condition. The Pony Express went bankrupt in 1861, along with investors of t affiliated Missouri banks, due to the refusal of the War Department to honor War Dept Contracts fraudulently issued by Floyd, who escaped justice by joining the Confederacy. These items came from a group of Floyd Contract items. In 1863 the Missouri banks were still embroiled in suits against the defunct Russell, Majors and Waddell Overland (Pony) Express Company. The pair of banking items.
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