Lowry National Bank of Atlanta stock certificate 1912 (Georgia)

Uncommon GA banking piece!  Classic vignette of an American Bald Eagle with wings spread on rocky outcrop.  Issued and perf cancelled. Dated 1912. Approximately 10.5 x 7 inches.

The Lowry National Bank was organized and chartered (5318) in 1900.

Absorbed by Lowry Bank & Trust Co. of Georgia, Atlanta. In 1924, the Lowry Bank and Trust merged with the Atlanta National Bank to become the Atlanta and Lowry National Bank. This bank later became part of the First National Bank of Atlanta, which was the successor to the original Atlanta National Bank.

The history of the Lowry National Bank began in 1861 in the produce store of Colonel Robert J. Lowry. He came to Atlanta from Greenville, Tennessee, when it was just an ordinary, but growing town. Colonel Lowry would sell the produce shipped by his father, W.M. Lowry, from Tennessee. The first Lowry bank established in Atlanta was located on Decatur Street, at the northwest corner of Pryor, the site later occupied by the Moore-Marsh building. At the time, Decatur Street was the center not only of business and commercial Atlanta, but of social and home life.

Colonel Lowry continued in that business until after the war when he was joined by his father and they went into the wholesale grocery and banking business on Alabama Street. Shortly after this they purchased a building on the southwest corner of Alabama and Central Avenue, then Lloyd Street, and in the early 1870s gradually eliminated the wholesale grocery business, and did only a banking business under the name of W.M. & R.J. Lowry, Bankers. About 1875, Joseph T. Orme, then a youth, became associated with the institution. They continued as private bankers until 1887 when a state charter was secured and the business was incorporated as the Lowry Banking Company.

In August 1892, the Lowry Banking Company moved from its Alabama Street location to its new quarters in the Equitable Building, the first large fireproof office building constructed in the south. It was considered the finest and most up-to-date banking office south of Washington. Thomas D. Meador, then of the firm of Oglesby & Meador, wholesale grocers, began as active vice president. In 1900 the state charter was replaced with a national charter and the capital increased to $500,000 and the name changed to the Lowry National Bank.

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