Photo courtesy Mike Slate
• With a $600 loan from American National Bank, Purity Dairies was born.
” Nashville-Since the 1920s – Don H. Doyle”
• American National Bank absorbed Fourth and First during banking collapse of 1930.
” Nashville-Since the 1920s – Don H. Doyle”
• In 1950 the name was changed to First American, a distinction derived from the merger with Fourth and First.
” Nashville-Since the 1920s – Don H. Doyle”
Old Hickory, Tn had a branch
American National Bank building on Donelson Avenue was built in 1918 and employed 60 clerks to handle the payroll load at the height of the powder plant days.
-from www.dupontalumni.org






