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ARTHUR C. TRUMBO
One of the best known bankers and financiers of the State of
Oklahoma is Arthur C. Trumbo, vice president and cashier of the
Muskogee National Bank. He was born on a farm in Allen County, Ohio,
August 6, 1866. He received his early education in the rural schools,
and at the age of seventeen became a teacher and soon principal of
the Columbus Grove High School in his native state. Thereafter
continuing his education, he pursued studies in the normal school at
Ada, Ohio; the Tri-State Normal at Angola, Indiana; Wooster
University, at Wooster, Ohio; and Leland Stanford University in
California. From the last-named famous institution he took his
bachelor's degree in literary and scientific subjects in the year
1894. He then entered the law school of Northwestern University, in
Chicago, and in 1896 was made a Bachelor of Law. In the Illinois
metropolis he began his legal career, practicing there until 1901.
In the last-named year, Mr. Trumbo located at Muskogee, where, in
connection with A. W. Patterson, he established the Bank of Muskogee,
which in 1908 became the Muskogee National Bank. As vice president
and cashier, he has been the active officer in building up this
financial institution, which ranks among the leading banks in
Oklahoma. Mr. Trumbo's legal education has contributed signally to
his success as a safe and able financier, while his inherent business
sagacity and executive ability have insured the success of the bank
which has grown so extensively and solidly during his identification
with it.
The general building up of Muskogee has been scarcely second to his
interest in the bank with which he is connected. He was one of the
organizers of the Muskogee Commercial Club and became the third
president of that organization. He has also served as president of
the Muskogee Clearing House Association and in many and various ways
has contributed materially to the growth and development of this
adopted city. In 1912, after serving in many other capacities and
giving considerable attention to western affairs, he became president
of the Trans-Mississippi Commercial Congress, an institution that has
done a great deal of good in the development of the western states.
Mr. Trumbo is a republican in politics, but has never been an ardent
partisan, and, in fact, has taken so very little interest in politics
that many do not know to which party he belongs.
While in college he belonged to the Delta Tau Delta fraternity and
has also enjoyed the social advantages of the Masonic fraternity and
is a life member of the Elks.
The Trumbo home on West Broadway is one of the fine homes of the
city and both financially and socially the Trumbo family occupies a
very high place in the State of Oklahoma.
THE IOWA BUILDING
MUSKOGEE SECURITY NATIONAL BANK
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