ST AGRICULTURAL ON WORKING IN EED IT MOST BUILDING TRUST ON A SIMPLE PRINCIPLE: LOCAL DEPOSITS SHOULD FUEL LOCAL ECONOMIES, NOT DISAPPEAR INTO DISTANT BALANCE SHEETS. InIn the rolling farmland of northeast Kansas, where towns dot the landscape, Leonard Wolfe has spent 44 years building a different kind of banking institution. When Gold Banc decided to sell some locations in 2003, Wolfe raised the capital to purchase them, founding United Bank & Trust in 2004. Today, the Marysville-based institution has $875 million in assets and is the largest agricultural bank in Kansas, operating in a region where the bank’s roots stretch back to the 1870s. His leadership earned him the 128 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 12, ISSUE 11
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