JOHN T. McDONALD.

JOHN T. McDONALD.
John T. McDonald has been a resident of Torrington since 1905, arriving here when a youth of nineteen years. He is now active in its business circles as vice president of the First National Bank. Iowa numbers him among her native sons, his birth having occurred in Creston, that state, on the 4th of March, 1886, his parents being James and Elizabeth (McMahon) McDonald. The parents are also residents of Torrington and are widely and prominently known in the community. John T. McDonald acquired a public and high school education in Iowa and thus became well qualified for life's practical and responsible duties. Following his arrival in Wyoming in 1905 he took up his abode in the city which has since been his home and entered upon his business career here in a clerical capacity with the banking house of Snow & Clark. Ambitious, however, to engage in business on his own account, he organized the Torrington State Bank in 1906 and became its cashier. In 1908 he organized the First National Bank, with which he has since been identified, and the success of the institution is largely attributable to his efforts. He has had long experience in the banking business, with which he is thoroughly familiar in principle and detail, and in his present position he is bending his efforts to constructive work, to administrative direction and executive control. He is a courteous and obliging official and has done much to further the interests of the institution which he is now directing. On the 11th of June, 1907, in Cheyenne, Mr. McDonald was united in marriage to Miss Anna Lane and they are parents of two sons and three daughters, namely: Dorothy Elizabeth, Catherine Louise, Marjorie Ann, John T., Jr. and Donald James. In his political views Mr. McDonald is a republican and is filling the office of United States commissioner. His religious faith is that of the Catholic church and he is a third degree member of the Knights of Columbus, which organization draws its membership only from those of Catholic faith. He is much interested in the state and its development and cooperates heartily with all well defined plans and movements for the upbuilding of his city and of the commonwealth.

John T. McDonald has been a resident of Torrington since 1905, arriving here when a youth of nineteen years. He is now active in its business circles as vice president of the First National Bank. Iowa numbers him among her native sons, his birth having occurred in Creston, that state, on the 4th of March, 1886, his parents being James and Elizabeth (McMahon) McDonald. The parents are also residents of Torrington and are widely and prominently known in the community.
John T. McDonald acquired a public and high school education in Iowa and thus became well qualified for life's practical and responsible duties. Following his arrival in Wyoming in 1905 he took up his abode in the city which has since been his home and entered upon his business career here in a clerical capacity with the banking house of Snow & Clark. Ambitious, however, to engage in business on his own account, he organized the Torrington State Bank in 1906 and became its cashier. In 1908 he organized the First National Bank, with which he has since been identified, and the success of the institution is largely attributable to his efforts. He has had long experience in the banking business, with which he is thoroughly familiar in principle and detail, and in his present position he is bending his efforts to constructive work, to administrative direction and executive control. He is a courteous and obliging official and has done much to further the interests of the institution which he is now directing.
On the 11th of June, 1907, in Cheyenne, Mr. McDonald was united in marriage to Miss Anna Lane and they are parents of two sons and three daughters, namely: Dorothy Elizabeth, Catherine Louise, Marjorie Ann, John T., Jr. and Donald James.
In his political views Mr. McDonald is a republican and is filling the office of United States commissioner. His religious faith is that of the Catholic church and he is a third degree member of the Knights of Columbus, which organization draws its membership only from those of Catholic faith. He is much interested in the state and its development and cooperates heartily with all well defined plans and movements for the upbuilding of his city and of the commonwealth.