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Charles S. Jobes, the president of the American
National Bank, was reared in Northeastern Ohio, from where he moved
south in 1871, at the age of seventeen, and engaged in civil
engineering, railroad, and levee construction in the States of Texas
and Mississippi.
Later he engaged in banking, and in 1886
located in Southern Kansas, where he continued in banking until 1897,
when he was appointed National Bank Examiner, and was thus employed
until October 8, 1901, when he resigned as Bank Examiner to accept the
presidency of the American National Bank of Kansas City, Mo.
During his term of service as National Bank Examiner his territory
covered all of the States of Kansas, Missouri, south of the Platte
River in Nebraska and the Indian Territory, and included over two
hundred and fifty National Banks. His work as Bank Examiner also
gave him high standing with the Comptroller of the Currency, and he
was made receiver of three National Banks during his period of
service.
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