[1] On January 19, 1898, Colonel William L. Trenholm was elected president of the North American Trust Company.
Both groups unanimously voted to merge the two organizations under the new name the North American Trust Company.
[2] On May 22, 1900, the Senate adopted a resolution brought by Jones of Arkansas directing the Secretary of War to investigate the North American Trust Company's operations in Havana, and its relation to the United States government.
Thorne, then president of the North American Trust Company, was announced as the architect of the merger.
[4] To facilitate the merger, Thorne employed a corporation to hold a majority of the stocks, with the Times writing that "Wall Street had never seen the idea applied to the control of banking institutions."
[4] Stock in all three companies was also placed under the control of a committee, consisting of Charles T. Barney, George R. Sheldon, Hosmer B. Parsons, Emerson McMillin, Oakleigh Thorne, and William H.
[4] On January 19, 1898, Colonel William L. Trenholm was elected president of the North American Trust Company, succeeding Samuel M. Jarvis.
[1] At the same election, the elected members of the executive committee included Wiliam A. Wheelock, Henry H. Cook, Thomas F. Ryan, James A. Hayden, Marcellus Hartley, John C. Bullitt, John J. McCook, Elihu Root, and W. B.
[6] In 1899, William Lee Trenholm desired to be "free of business cares" and retire, and an election was held for a new president at 100 Broadway.
They included president Oakleigh Thorne of the International, as well as Benjamin F. Tracy, H. B. Hollins, Edward W. Scott, Jone Hone, John C. Tomlinson, and Ernst Thalmann.