William Lynch contributed the images on this page. He recently purchased the $5 banknote, and then researched the bank and the two signers of the note, W. Wesley Whiteker and Albert John Scheurer.

First National Bank of Morrow Ohio Banknote, 8709, Series 1929

Cashier, W. W. Whiteker (1920-1935)
President A. J. Scheurer (1928-1935)

Hazel Spencer Phillips, Banking in Warren County, Ohio (N.p.: The Oxford Press, 1960).
Photo: page 69.
History: pages 44-47 from which the following is excerpted.
First established just before the Civil War by James Couden and operated as a private bank until 1907 when it was chartered as the Morrow National Bank. A second bank, the First National Bank of Morrow was established in 1907. Both banks operated in Morrow across the street from each other until 1935 when they merged under the name First National Bank of Morrow. The bank was damaged by floods in 1913, 1937 and 1959.

2017 photos by William Lynch

1st National Bank
541 Pike Street, Morrow, OH

Courtesy of Google Street View (15 May 2017)

RITES WEDNESDAY" FOR A. J. Scheurer
Was Morrow Bank President Many Years, Headed Cannery

Source:
"Rites Wednesday for A. J. Scheurer," obituary, Western Star (Lebanon, Ohio), Thursday, April 21, 1949
Copy from the Obituary Collection at the Warren County Genealogical Society,

Albert John Scheurer
see photo of gravestone at Morrow Cemetery

Cathy Nolte, "Few Knew About Area's Secret Benefactor," Western Star (Lebanon, Ohio), Wednesday, April 7, 1976.
[lengthy article includes a 1940s vintage photo capioned "Lawrence Smith, his wife Carrie, and her brother Albert Scheurer outside the family home adjacent to Scheurer's General Store."]

W. W. WHITKER Succumbs at 81.

W. Wesley Whiteker 81 former president of the Morrow Bank died at his residence in Morrow. He had retired from his position in January 1952.
Mr. Whiteker was a former elder of the Morrow Presbyterian Church; a member of the Morrow Masonic Lodge and of the Morrow Chapter F. and A. M. the Morrow Lions Club and was active in Boy Scout week.
He is survived by his wife Laura; a son Elgin Cincinnati; two brothers Eureka and Deshaboth of Cynthiana Ky.; and four grandchildren Linda and Geoffrey Overley both of Mariemont and Stewart and Stephen Whitaker both of Wilmington.
Funeral services were conducted Saturday at the Vale Funeral Home with burial in Spring Valley Cemetery.

Source:
"W. W. Whiteker Succumbs at 87," obituary, unnamed 1958 newspaper
Copy from the Obituary Collection at the Warren County Genealogical Society,

1913 photo of W. W. Whiteker and wife
Spring Valley, Ohio

M. A. Broadstone, Editor-in-Chief, History of Greene County Ohio: Its People, Industries and Institutions, Vol. II (Indianapolis, Indiana: B. F. Bowen & Company, Inc, 1918), pages 576-578; digital images, https://archive.org, (: accessed 15 May 2017)

WILLIAM WESLET WHITEKER BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
Photo caption: William W. Whiteker and Family

see pdf file for pages 576-578

• "W. Wesley Whiteker," obituary, Wilmington (Ohio) News Journal, Thursday, May 1, 1958 - see https://www.newspapers.com for image of article [$]
• "Mrs. Laura Whiteker," obituary, Wilmington (Ohio) News Journal, Thursday, September 3, 1959- see https://www.newspapers.com for image of article [$]
• Find A Grave Memorial # 27382526
  gravestone for Laura A. Whiteker (1879-1959) and W. Wesley Whiteker (1877-1958)
  Spring Valley Cemetery, Spring Valley, Greene County, Ohio
• Life Events
  • Married Laura Clark Alexander (September 30, 1912)
  • Associated with Spring Valley Fuel Oil (1916)
  • Listed as Cashier for Spring Valley Bank (1917)
  • Detailed Biography (1918)
  • Listed in advertisement as Clerk, Farm Bureau Spring Valley Township, Xenia Evening Gazette March 4, 1920 p 10
  • Listed as Cashier for FNB Morrow (1925)
  • Listed as Cashier for FNB Morrow (1929)
  • Renamed as Cashier (WNJ January 27, 1936)
  • Listed as member of the Executive Committee of the Ohio Banker’s Association (Cincinnati Enquirer October 17, 1941)
  • Listed as both President, First National Bank of Morrow and President of the Warren County Bankers’ Association (Cincinnati Enquirer December 23, 1947)
  • Listed as admitted to Clinton Memorial Hospital (Wilmington News-Journal December 7, 1955)
  • Listed as dismissed from Clinton Memorial Hospital (WNJ December 12, 1955)