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The Little Ferry National Bank, Little Ferry, NJ: failed October 22, 1937
The Little Ferry National Bank in Little Ferry, New Jersey, failed on October 22, 1937. It held $744,000 in deposits.
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The FDIC's record
- Closed
- October 22, 1937
- Type
- Failure
- How it was resolved
- Purchase and assumption: another bank took over the deposits
- Total deposits
- $744,000
- Charter
- National bank (supervised by the OCC)
- Insurance fund
- FDIC
Other bank failures in New Jersey, 1935 to 1939
| Bank | City | Closed | Assets | Deposits | Estimated cost | Acquirer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Tuckerton Bank | Tuckerton | December 27, 1939 | $735,000 | $624,000 | ||
| The Egg Harbor Commercial Bank | Egg Harbor City | October 7, 1939 | $865,000 | |||
| Kearny National Bank | Kearny | June 30, 1939 | $3.1 million | |||
| West Hudson County Trust Company | Harrison | June 30, 1939 | $5.8 million | |||
| Pleasantville Trust Company | Pleasantville | June 30, 1939 | $1.1 million | $936,000 | ||
| The Hamilton Trust Company of Paterson | Paterson | June 17, 1939 | $3.7 million | $2.9 million | ||
| Merchants Trust Company | Union City | June 3, 1939 | $5.6 million | |||
| Commonwealth Trust Company | Union City | June 3, 1939 | $5.8 million |
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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.