In the small town of Girard, Kansas, where Eugene V. Debs delivered a major 1908 presidential campaign speech from the courthouse steps, a different kind of legacy that has quietly taken root. GNBank is one of America’s enduring family-owned financial institutions, serving rural communities across Kansas and eastern Colorado for over a century. What began as Farmer’s and Miner’s State Bank in 1918, founded by local farmers and miners, has evolved into a 15-location operation that has weathered the Great Depression, multiple agricultural D FAMILY BANK RN RURAL AMERICA ELATIONSHIPS AND AGRICULTURAL EXPERTISE 128 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 12, ISSUE 10
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