Thursday, May 15, 2025

Chicago Board of Trade Companies: McRea & Waters and Waters, Patterson & Company

WATERS, PATTERSON & CO.
SUCCESSORS TO
JUN 14 1899
M'CREA & WATERS
CHICAGO.

Wiley B. Waters, CBOT Member #1680, traded with M'Crea & Waters until 1899, and then reorganized with someone named Patterson in that year.  However, he was reported by The Grain Dealers Journal of April 10, 1900 to have declared bankruptcy.  Following the bankruptcy, neither Waters nor Patterson were ever included in the CBOT membership lists after its organization in 1899.  

from The Economist, May 20, 1899


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