First National Bank of Cameron stock certificate 1894 (Missouri)

Early Cameron Missouri banking piece!  Elaborate company name with flourishes as the vignette.  Issued and pen cancelled at the center. Glue stains to the left outside of the border. Dated 1894. Approximately 11 x 8 inches.

First National Bank of Cameron (charter 4259) established in 1890 and liquidated in 1947. It was a small community bank that serviced Cameron and surrounding counties. The national bank charter status allowed the bank to issue currency.

Cameron is a city in Clinton, DeKalb, and Caldwell counties in the U.S. state of Missouri. The population was 8,513 at the 2020 census. The Clinton and Caldwell counties portion of Cameron are part of the Kansas City Metropolitan Area, while the DeKalb County portion is part of the St. Joseph, Missouri Metropolitan Area. The city is a part of the Kansas City-Overland Park-Kansas City Combined Statistical Area.

In 1854, Samuel McCorkle platted the town of Somerville. When the Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad proposed coming through the area, the line claimed the area around Somerville was too steep for the rail, so he platted a new community 1.5 miles to the west in what is now downtown Cameron just one year after the founding of Sommerville in 1855. McCorkle had Judge Stokes and his son Edmund D. Stokes move all the buildings from Sommerville to the new town of Cameron that was named for the maiden name of his wife, Malinda Cameron.

Cameron was a college town from 1883 until 1930. Founded as the Cameron Institute, it became Missouri Wesleyan College, operated by the Methodist Church until 1930. A building on the campus would become Cameron High School until being torn down in the 1960s, when a new high school was built on a site a few blocks south.

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