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North Main Street, Victoria (c. I9oo) . Courtesy Hauschild Collection.
and Trust in 191o and Victoria Bank and Trust in 1923. The Farmers and
Merchants' Bank was chartered in 1894. First National Bank organized in
1899 and merged immediately with the John M. Brownson and Eugene
Sibley banking interests, a business dating back to 1882. First National
Bank became First Victoria National Bank shortly before it took over the
Farmers and Merchants' Bank in 1914. At about the same time, First
Victoria National Bank moved to the new Welder Building, which now
occupied one of the city's most historic sites the corner of Main and
Constitution streets.'4
Better transportation and general economic expansion attracted people
of many talents and training. Physicians and attorneys were well represented
among early community leaders, and by the late nineteenth century Vic-
toria's doctors and lawyers served a wide area along the central Gulf coast,
thus focusing still more attention on the city. They, like the numerous
craftsmen (many of whom were European immigrants), made Victoria
an unusually cosmopolitan city by 1900. 5
14Theora H. Whitaker (comp.), Victoria (Victoria, 1941), 18-24; Mooney, 75 Years,
8-g; [Rose], History of Victoria, 83; Victoria Advocate, "88th Number," 74.
15Physicians and attorneys are found in Morris, Pictorial History, 12; Grimes (ed),
300 Years, 360; Victoria Advocate, "88th Number," 98-99. Victoria's cosmospolitanism
is referred to in D. W. Meinig, Imperial Texas: An Interpretive Essay in Cultural Geog-
raphy (Austin, Ig69), 25, 44, 52, 6o, 65, 96, I12; [Rose], History of Victoria, 85 86.
Much more needs to be done on Victoria's numerous ethnic groups, but Sidney R.
Weisiger's four articles on the Jewish community provide an admirable beginning. Victoria
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