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Gloucester City Trust Company, Gloucester City, NJ: failed June 3, 1939

Gloucester City Trust Company in Gloucester City, New Jersey, failed on June 3, 1939. It held $1.2 million in deposits.

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The FDIC's record

Closed
June 3, 1939
Type
Failure
How it was resolved
Purchase and assumption: another bank took over the deposits
Total deposits
$1,160,000
Charter
State nonmember bank (FDIC)
Insurance fund
FDIC

The FDIC record

Other bank failures in New Jersey, 1937 to 1941

BankCityClosedAssetsDepositsEstimated costAcquirer
The Westfield Trust CompanyWestfieldJune 22, 1940$4.7 million
First State Bank of Scotch PlainsScotch PlainsJune 22, 1940$612,000
The Swedesboro National BankSwedesboroMarch 16, 1940$680,000
Woodcliff Trust CompanyNorth BergenFebruary 3, 1940$1.5 million
Bankers Trust CompanyAtlantic CityFebruary 1, 1940$2.1 million$986,000
The Tuckerton BankTuckertonDecember 27, 1939$735,000$624,000
The Egg Harbor Commercial BankEgg Harbor CityOctober 7, 1939$865,000
Kearny National BankKearnyJune 30, 1939$3.1 million

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Read from the FDIC's failures data (BankFind), last updated 2026-10-24. Assets and deposits are as of the last report before failure; the estimated cost is the FDIC's latest estimate of the loss to its insurance fund and changes as the receivership winds down. Free to reuse with credit to SpecStream under CC BY 4.0.