The story
The bank was formed in 1892 as First National Bank of Amarillo, located at 4th Avenue and Polk Street. Local cattleman Benjamin Taliaferro (B.T.) Ware, one of the earliest settlers in the area, became vice president of First National Bank in 1895 until moving to Fort Worth, Texas in 1899. Ware returned in 1900 and bought the bank. He operated it until 1906, when he sold his stock and organized the Western Bank and Trust Company. In 1909, Ware repurchased the Amarillo bank and merged it with Western Bank and Trust, forming Amarillo National Bank. Members of the Ware family have owned and operated the bank ever since.
In 1986, ANB purchased Borger's Bank in Borger, Texas. The acquisitions of Lubbock National Bank and Commerce National Bank were announced in October 2018 and finalized in March 2019.
From Wikipedia’s article on Amarillo National Bank, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.5
