Chatham Phenix National Bank and Trust Company of New York
[2] The New York Times wrote that the Chatham Phenix National Bank and Trust Company was helped to be started by "J. Pierpont Morgan, the renowned American financier.
[4] In January 1915, there were negotiations for Chatham and Phenix National to buy and liquidate the Mutual Alliance Trust Company in its entirety.
[18] In January 1921, the Times reported that the Chatham and Phenix Nation Bank was "one of the few institutions in New York which enjoyed an increase in deposits during the year just ended."
"[19] On November 7, 1921, Chatham and Phenix announced it had purchased New York County National Bank, to become a twelfth branch of the larger company.
[20] Chatham and Phenix National Bank was one of 12 to support the Woodrow Wilson Foundation in January 1922, by accepting donations to establish an annual prize for "meritorious public service.
[25][26][note 1] In 1929, Kaufman was made chairman of the Chatham Phenix Allied Corporation, an "investment concern of $50,000,000 capital.
[27] On March 21, 1934, Chatham-Phenix National Bank served as a trustee in the receivership of the American Fuel and Power Company.
The others at the time included Harden L. Crawford, Desmond Dunne, Ellis P. Earle, O. G. Fessenden, John H. Hansen, Horace E. Andrews, Frank J. Heaney, Parmely W. Herrick, Richard H. Higgins, H. Stuart Hotchkiss, William A.
Law, Frank R. Lawrence, Waldo H. Marshall, Henry F. Shoemaker, Charles A. Starbuck, Sanford H. Steele, Albert A. Tilney, John D. Vermeule, and Samuel Weil.
[29] By 1916, the Chatham and Phenix National Bank had been headquartered at Broadway and John Street for close to fifty years.
At the end of December 1916, the bank moved into the Singer Building, a floor-space increase of 20,000 to 26,000 square feet (1,900 to 2,400 m2).
[16] In 1917, the theater at 205 East 57th Street in Manhattan was remodeled by Chatham and Phenix National Bank and joined to the Third Avenue building.
The building was turned back into a theater in 1933, after Chatham and Phenix Bank was acquired by the Manufacturers Trust Company the year prior.
