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Active head of the new bank will be Clyde Edward Brenton, 61. The Brentons are an old Iowa banking family, with homestead at Dallas Center, 24 miles west of Des Moines. The late William Henry Brenton founded a private bank at Dallas Center, and extended it into a chain. He also acquired Iowa farm land. When he died his sons inherited the banks and 10,000 acres of land. Clyde Brenton has no children of his own, so he adopted Harold, his nephew, who, now 30, married and father of two children, is the sole heir to the Brenton fortune. Harold's hobby is the Iowa Young Men's Christian Association. He is to be vice president of the new bank, his father the president.
* Notable: Armand's Powder, Chamberlain Medicine, Hawkeye Portland Cement, Rollins Hosiery, Green Colonial Furnace, Falcon Milling, Sheuerman Woolen Mills. Old Golden Coffee & Spices, Standard Biscuit, Waterbury Chemical.