The Farmers and Merchants Bank is a family owned, chartered institution with
branch locations in eleven communities in Southeast Nebraska, and one hundred thirty employees.
Country Bank Shares, Inc., the holding company, was formed in 1989 with the
purpose of consolidating some of the independent banks that the Dunlap family
owned.
Country Bank Shares, Inc., got its start when M.W. Dunlap purchased the Farmers
State Bank in Douglas, NE, in 1921. From that small bank in that small town,
four of Maynard and Helen Dunlap’s sons began banking careers that have
grown far beyond most people’s expectations. The eldest son, G. Alan Dunlap,
worked with his father at Douglas, attended Harvard, worked at one of the large
Lincoln banks and then, when the Dunlap family purchased the Farmers and Merchants
Bank in Milford, took over the management of this, their first acquisition.
From that point the family continued to purchase banks including:
- Home State Bank, Beaver Crossing, in 1959
- Bank of Palmyra in 1956
- Cooperative Bank in Cordova in 1984
- Bank of Panama (purchased as a branch of Farmers State Bank, Douglas)
in 1985
- Nebraska State Bank, Weeping Water in 1990
- State Bank of Firth in 1992
- Bank of Wilber in 1995; and most recently
- Security National Bank of Superior in 1998 with offices also in Lawrence,
and Jansen, Nebraska.
- Kearney State Bank and Trust in 2007
Farmers and Merchants Bank takes pride in being large enough to offer a wide
variety of services and products, but being small enough to serve our smaller,
rural communities in southeast Nebraska. We offer friendly, personal service
in your community.
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