Henry T. Wynn First National Bank of Trafford
Henry T. Wynn (1870-1931) was president of the First National Bank of Trafford. His signature appears on this $20 bill that is currently being sold on eBay. Wynn’s bio appears in the "Old and New Westmoreland," Vol. 3, published in 1918.
It reads in part that Wynn was head of the well-known firm of Wynn & Starr Company, also president of the Trafford Oil and Gas Company and other concerns. His father, Isaac Wynn (1837-1909), was one of the early settlers of Blairsville, PA, and a successful brick manufacturer in the region. Henry T. Wynn was born in Blairsville, Indiana County, Pennsylvania, on November 13, 1870. In August 1903, he took up his residence in Trafford, since which time he has been most active in well-nigh every aspect of the town's affairs and has identified himself prominently with many important business concerns here. He became connected with the Wynn & Starr Company in 1905, (which is now 1918) a very important industrial concern and manufactures bricks on a large scale, operating two plants, one at Trafford, manufacturing both smooth and rough texture face brick that are shipped as far East as Boston, Massachusetts, and as far West as Minneapolis, Minnesota; the other plant is at Mars, Pennsylvania, which at present only makes common brick, but which is being equipped to make face brick. The main office is at Trafford, where they have a well-stocked builders' supply yard, selling coal, sewer pipe and all other material in the builders' supply line. In conjunction with the brick plants the company owns and operates gas wells at each place for the burning of brick. Mr. Wynn is president of this concern and is also president of the Trafford Oil and Gas Company, and president of the First National Bank of Trafford, his connection with that important financial institution dating from the year 1903.
He is also first vice-president of the Trafford Board of Trade, in which capacity he has done much to stimulate and encourage the commercial and industrial growth of the place. He is the owner of considerable valuable property in the town, and one of the most active and public-spirited of its citizens. He is affiliated with many important organizations here, and is particularly active in the Masonic order, having taken the thirty-second degree in Free Masonry. He is a member of Acacia Lodge, No. 355, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, of Blairsville, and of Syria Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He is also a charter member of the local lodge, No. 1106, of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and is a conspicuous figure in the social life of the place.
Another of Mr. Wynn's interests is agriculture, and the Wynn & Starr Company is operating an excellent farm of twenty-two acres as a war garden, upon which they have grown a very successful crop. He has devoted his attention, particularly to buckwheat, cabbage, beans, and beets, and has met with very gratifying success in every case.
Henry T. Wynn was united in marriage, June 11, 1911, with Helen K. Baldridge, a daughter of John Baldridge, a prominent coal operator of Braddock, Pennsylvania, and of Lydia (Cory) Baldridge, of Port Perry, Pennsylvania. Wynn is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church of Trafford, serving as president of the board of trustees and active in all that pertains to the management and welfare of the church.
