Note: WorldConnect family trees will be removed from RootsWeb on April 15, 2023 and will be migrated to Ancestry later in 2023. (More info)

Individual Page


Family
Marriage: Children:
  1. Charles A Zitnik: Birth: 1916. Death: 9 JAN 1943

  2. Leonard Charles Zitnik: Birth: 28 MAY 1921. Death: 7 JUL 2006 in St Petersburg, Pinellas, Florida, USA

  3. Edwin James Zitnik: Birth: 17 NOV 1922. Death: 30 DEC 2000

  4. Person Not Viewable

  5. Person Not Viewable


Notes
a. Note:   AMERICAN STATE BANK. Berwyn.
  The American State Bank of Berwyn was organized as the Twenty-second
 Street State Bank in September, 1922, by Frank C. Topinka with a capital of
 fifty thousand dollars and surplus of twelve thousand 'five hundred dollars
 and was opened for business on the 18th of November following. Its officers
 were : Frank C. Topinka, president ; Joseph Z. Klenha, vice president ; Albert
 Novotny, cashier; and Charles E. Zitnik, assistant cashier. In January, 1923,
 Albert Novotny was made active vice president and Charles E. Zitnik the
 cashier.
  In October, 1925, the Twenty-second Street State Bank increased its surplus
 to twenty thousand dollars. At the time its name was changed to the American
 State Bank of Berwyn, the capital was increased to one hundred thousand
 dollars and the surplus to sixty thousand dollars. When the institution opened
 its doors for business there were no other buildings within a mile. Deposits,
 which were twenty-nine thousand dollars on the opening day, have grown to
 more than five hundred thousand dollars despite the fact that only about one
  214 FINANCING AN EMPIRE
  hundred and fifty dollars per year has been expended for advertising. The
 American State Bank has been housed from the beginning in a modern bank
 building which it erected at No. 6721 West Twenty-second street in Berwyn.
 Its business is derived principally from the Chicago following of Mr. Topinka.
 The directors of the institution are as follows : Frank C. Topinka, Albert
 Novotny, Charles E. Zitnik, Joseph Z. Klenha, Albert Hlavka, Albert Krch,
 Frank A. Mazanec, M. E. Holpuch, A. J. Razim, James J. Hejna and Charles
 H. Lang. The new building of the American State Bank on the southwest
 corner of Oak Park boulevard and Twenty-second street in Berwyn will cost
 approximately one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars and is rapidly
 nearing completion.
  PRANK C. TOPINKA.
  Frank C. Topinka, president of the American State Bank of Berwyn, which he
 organized as the Twenty-second Street State Bank in September, 1922, is also at
 the head of the Oakwyn State Bank of Berwyn, which he organized in July, 1924.
 He is a native of Bohemia, born on the 4th of April, 1885, and arrived in Chicago
 about the year 1897, when a youth of twelve. In the acquirement of an education
 he attended the public schools and also an evening college of the city. His initial
 experience in the business world was gained as a bookkeeper in the employ of Frank
 Kirchman, a Chicago realtor, with whom he remained until 19 03. In that year
 he resigned his position to enter what is now the Lawndale National Bank, then
 conducted as a private bank by Frank G. Hajicek, having charge of the institution
 as cashier for eleven years. During this period he handled funds to the amount
 of eight hundred thousand dollars and was never under bond. In 1912 Mr. Topinka
 turned his attention to the real estate and building business, operating in Chicago.
 Cicero and Berwyn and handling more than six hundred real estate loans during
 the succeeding ten years. On the expiration of that period, in September, 1922,
 he organized the Twenty-second Street State Bank, now the American State Bank
 of Berwyn, and has since remained at the head of this sound moneyed institution.
 He is also the organizer and president of the Oakwyn State Bank at the corner
 of Roosevelt road and Oak Park boulevard.
  On the 20th of August, 1904, Mr. Topinka was united in marriage to Anna
 Krch, daughter of Albert S. Krch, a native of Iowa. They are the parents of one
 daughter, Viola A., who is nineteen years of age and is attending St. Mary's Col-
 lege in Knoxville, Illinois. Mr. and Mrs. Topkina make their home in Berwyn.
 The former is identified with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and with the
 Masons, belonging to the blue lodge, chapter, council and Eastern Star. Mr. To-
 pinka is a man of broad vision and progressive ideas, with a nature to which all
 pretense is foreign, and has adopted as the guide-posts of his life those principles
 which never fail to command admiration and respect.



RootsWeb.com is NOT responsible for the content of the GEDCOMs uploaded through the WorldConnect Program. The creator of each GEDCOM is solely responsible for its content.