Metropolitan Trust Company

[2][a] Along with Hillhouse, Walter J. Brittin, formerly Cashier and Chief Clerk of the Sub-Treasury, joined the Trust Company as Secretary, and Frederick D. Tappen, president of the Gallatin National Bank joined as Vice President.

[9] Pratt's tenure was short-lived, however, as he resigned on September 1, 1921 but stayed on as acting president until his successor was elected.

[10] In 1921, Harold B. Thorne, vice president of the Trust Company, announced that Metropolitan was moving from their current office at 60 Wall Street, had taken over the office space of the Liberty branch of the New York Trust Company in the Equitable Building with a fourteen year lease beginning on January 1, 1922.

McRoberts, an attorney who had served as general manager of Armour and Company, president of the Illinois Tunnel Company and vice president of the National City Bank of New York was well known for his contributions to the Allies during World War I in the United States Army Ordnance Department.

[16][17] In March 1925, $250,000,000 worth of securities were "moved in four armored cars, guarded by machine guns, from the vaults of the old Metropolitan Trust Company, in the Equitable Building at 120 Broadway, to the Chatham and Phenix National Bank in the Singer Building, at 149 Broadway.