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Sikeston is the headquarters for Montgomery Bank which is the largest privately owned, family-operated bank in Missouri. The bank began in 1903 as the T. L. Wright Private Bank in Doniphan, Missouri. In 1955, Tom Baker of Sikeston purchased the charter and established Planters Bank. [18] In 1957, Joel Montgomery acquired controlling interest in ...
Mercantile Bancorporation was the largest bank holding company in Missouri when it was acquired by Firstar Corporation in 1999. The Mercantile Bank of St. Louis was founded in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1850. In 1996, its chief executive Thomas H. Jacobsen began a series of acquisitions, increasing its assets from $15.9 billion to $35.8 billion.
July 1940 mugshot of Cleo Wright. Cleo Wright was a 26-year-old African-American cotton mill worker who was lynched in Sikeston, Missouri during the afternoon of January 25, 1942. Earlier, he was accused of attacking a white woman with a knife and attempting to sexually assault her, and subsequently resisted arrest by stabbing a police officer ...
The Cape Girardeau–Jackson Metropolitan Statistical Area, as defined by the United States Census Bureau, is an area consisting of two counties in southeastern Missouri and one in southern Illinois with its core in both states. [1] Its largest cities are the cities of Cape Girardeau and Jackson. It was upgraded from a Micropolitan Statistical ...
Killing. On May 3, 2020, a 28-year-old black transgender woman named Nina Pop was found dead with multiple stab wounds after being stabbed with a knife inside her own apartment on South New Madrid Street in Sikeston, Missouri. [ 5][ 7][ 3][ 8][ 9]
Scott County is a county located in the southeastern portion of the U.S. state of Missouri. As of the 2020 census, the population was 38,059. [1] Its county seat is Benton. [2] The county was organized in 1821 and named for U.S. Representative John Scott, the first federal representative from Missouri.
UMB Financial Corporation is an American financial services holding company founded in 1913 as City Center Bank and based in Kansas City, Missouri.It offers a number of financial services from checking and savings accounts, credit services including home mortgages, auto loans, business loans and credit cards, to investing and wealth management, all are offered to individuals, companies and ...
Marshall Hotel. / 36.87583°N 89.58861°W / 36.87583; -89.58861. Marshall Hotel, also known as the Dunn Hotel, is a historic American hotel building located at Sikeston, Scott County, Missouri. It was built in 1910, and is a three-story, red brick commercial building with a shed roof. It measures 70 feet by 120 feet and features a cast ...