Central Bank and Trust (Atlanta) explained

The Central Bank and Trust Corp. was a bank founded in 1906 by Coca-Cola co-founder Asa Griggs Candler. It had its headquarters in the Candler Building in Downtown Atlanta.^[1] In 1922 it was merged into Citizens & Southern National Bank,^[2] the present successor entity to which is the Bank of America. One of its past directors was Col. Ira Yale Sage.^[3]

Notes and References

1. http://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/atlanta/can.htm "Candler Building", National Register of Historic Places Travel Itinerary: Atlanta"
2. https://archive.today/20120713080419/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/ajc_historic/access/520471982.html?dids=520471982:520471982&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&date=Sep+17,+1922&author=&pub=The+Atlanta+Constitution&desc=CITIZENS+AND+SOUTHERN+BANK+HEADS+ANNOUNCE+MERGER+OF+CENTRAL+BANK+AND+TRUST+COMPANY&pqatl=google "CITIZENS AND SOUTHERN BANK HEADS ANNOUNCE MERGER OF CENTRAL BANK AND TRUST COMPANY" Atlanta Constitution, September 7, 1922
3. A. B. Caldwell (1912). Men of Mark in Georgia, Edwards & Broughton Printing Company, Raleigh, N. C., Vol. 5, p. 194-198