Thom's Irish Who's Who/Bayne, Samuel Gamble

BAYNE, Samuel Gamble, Banker; b. Ulster, Ireland, Nov. 11th, 1844; son of Peter and Margaret Bayne. Educ. Royal Acad. Institution and Queen's College, Belfast; m. 1874, Emily Kelsey, of New York; started business in office of Sir James Hamilton, Belfast; later linen manufacturer in Belfast until March, 1869; came to U.S.; went to oil regions, 1870; drilled many wells there; went around the world, 1874-5; started in banking business in Bradford, Pa., organised first Nat. Bank and became its first President; afterwards organised Nat. Banks in Tex., Kan., Miss., Minn., and Ohio; organised Seaboard Nat. Rank, 1883, now its President; Treasurer Produce Exchange Deposit Vaults; President Atlas Improvement Co., Riverside Drive Property Association. Club: New York Athletic. Author: Pith of Astronomy, 1896; On an Irish Jaunting Car; Through Donegal and Connemara, 1902. Fantasy of Mediterranean Travel, 1909. Res.: White Plains, New York, and Riverside Driven and 108th Street. Office: 18 Broadway, New York.