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Summary

Business 1960 to Present

F&M Bank - Maple Avenue 1975

See "100 Years of Memories" Pages 99 - 100

From Brunswick: 100 Years of Memories (1990) THE PEOPLE’S NATIONAL BANK The People’s National Bank of Brunswick was organized in the early part of 1906 by some of Brunswick’s leading citizens. It opened for business in June of that year with the following persons composing its Board of Directors: Hamilton W. Shafer, G. H. Hogan, Christian Smith, Howard M. Jones, Thomas Fitzgerald, Peter S. Hemp, C. R. Gregory, L.E. McBride, John T. Martin, Samuel W. George, William F. Stonebraker and H. S. Hedges. The bank prospered from the very beginning and all during the money panic that started in the fall of 1907 and continued for over a year. The bank not only held its own in meeting all demands of ready currency, but increased its business during that trying period. People’s National Bank merged with Farmers and Mechanics Bank of Frederick, Maryland, in 1963, and has continued banking operations at 115 West Potomac Street in Brunswick. A branch office at North Maple Avenue and Souder Road was opened June 9,• 1975, to accommodate the increased population and the housing developments that were expanding throughout the entire Wenner’s Hill area.