New inventions were sweeping the nation in 1887, including the induction motor, Edison’s Kinetoscope, celluloid film, and the gasoline automobile. Across the country, assets of the nation’s 6,170 banks were fiscally sound, totaling $5.2 billion. That same year, a small bank in the newly established Ohio Western Reserve first opened its doors. After a tavern keeper, barber, schoolmaster, two tailors and a housewife deposited a total of $1

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