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472:, with fraud, claiming that the Portland Savings Bank had been looted and hundreds made destitute. The bank, he said, had inflated its assets and made risky commercial loans with savings deposits. The bank had reopened in May 1894 but closed in October. According to MacColl, "Bowerman accused Thompson of reopening the bank just long enough for Thompson to bail out his favored creditors... ".
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298:, as well as Dekum and Thompson.) He was at various times president of Columbia Investment Company, Oregon Land and Investment Company, Columbia Fire and Marine Insurance Company, Portland and Vancouver Railway Company, Trinidad Asphalt & Paving Company, and the Portland Exposition Company. In 1885, Dekum was one of 15 men named to the
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the banker who suffered the heaviest loss was Frank Dekum, who died in 1894, partially from the strain of the depression. With David P. Thompson's help, he had managed to salvage enough out of the wreckage of the
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