History
In 1965, Jack Crowley, a former banker; Ted George, owner of Mississippi Engineering; Elmer Ellingsen, manager of Iowa Electric, DeWitt; Rex Peters, owner of Peters Real Estate and Insurance; and Everett Rogers, a Welton farmer, applied for a state bank charter after determining the need for a second bank in DeWitt. Shortly after, Peter McGinn, a local farmer; Dr. Frank Benson, a local dentist; and Andrew Hartmann, another local farmer, were contacted and invited to join the group. They purchased a facility at the bank's present location and selected the name, First Central State Bank.