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The Brewster State Bank, Brewster, KS: failed December 7, 1936

The Brewster State Bank in Brewster, Kansas, failed on December 7, 1936. It held $75,000 in deposits.

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The FDIC's record

Closed
December 7, 1936
Type
Failure
How it was resolved
Purchase and assumption: another bank took over the deposits
Total deposits
$75,000
Charter
State nonmember bank (FDIC)
Insurance fund
FDIC

The FDIC record

Other bank failures in Kansas, 1934 to 1938

BankCityClosedAssetsDepositsEstimated costAcquirer
Farmers State BankDensmoreJuly 10, 1936$80,000$55,000
The Farmers State BankRileyMarch 24, 1936$71,000
First State Bank of AgraAgraMay 3, 1935$129,000$96,000
The State Bank of MilfordMilfordApril 10, 1935$118,000$87,000

All bank failures in 1936 · All bank failures in Kansas · The full failed bank list

Read from the FDIC's failures data (BankFind), last updated 2026-10-23. 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.