Among the far-seeing, promising young men in the Claremont field of finance, whose advice is often sought, and whose influence is felt in both commercial and industrial circles, is Harry T. Belcher, the popular cashier of the First National Bank. He was born at San Francisco on March 19, 1884, the son of Robert T. Belcher, the college professor who married Miss Minnie Tresilian, natives of Bandon, Ireland. Robert T. Belcher was a graduate of Queens University, Dublin, Ireland, coming to Claremont in 1907, where he has since been one of the professors in Pomona College. Of their family of four children, Harry is the eldest.
Harry T. Belcher studied at the Mt. Tamalpais Military Academy, from which he was graduated in 1894; and then, for eight years, engaged with the Matsons Bank of Montreal in Canada. Returning to the United States and to California in 1906, he accepted a post with the Western National Bank of San Francisco and then with the Citizens National Bank of Los Angeles, in which institutions, working according to American methods, he had a good chance to show what he could do.
Since 1913 Mr. Belcher has been cashier of the leading institution with which he is at present connected; he has also become a member of its board of directors and has naturally grown to be active in the Claremont Board of Trade. He is a Republican in national politics, but works for the advancement of good local movements regardless of party calls. During the late war he was naturally very active in the different war drives and served as chairman of the Claremont Victory Loan Committee.
At Claremont, on September 5, 1916, Mr. Belcher was married to Miss Nellie M. Parsons, the daughter of C. M. Parsons and Mary G. Parsons of Claremont, Cal. They are members of the Congregational Church and Mr. Belcher is secretary of the Men's Union; he is also a Mason. Claremont is fortunate in numbering such young men among its advance guard.
History of Pomona Valley, California, with Biographical Sketches
of The Leading Men and Women of the Valley Who Have Been
Identified With Its Growth and Development from the Early Days
to the Present
Published in Los Angeles, Cal., by the Historic Record Company
1920
Transcribed by Linda Jackson 1/07/09, Pages 751-752
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