El Banco de Campeche

Adolfo G. Gual seems to have come from Mérida, Yucatán, where he worked for the Singer Sewing Machine Company.

He signed the balance sheets from at least 31 August 1904 until the bank converted.

He then went back to Mérida. In 1911 he established a water purification plant called the Compañía Electropura de Mérida^{Diario Oficial, Yucatán, Año XV, Núm. 4330, 1 January 1912} but had died by November 1912 ^{Diario Oficial, Yucatán, Año XV, Núm. 4606, 20 November 1912}.

Joaquín Lanz Trueba was born in Campeche on 15 April 1868, the son of Joaquín Lanz y Biempica and Teodosia Trueba y de Regil.

He administered his hacienda Chumpich, for some time had an important post in the Banco de México and was representative and administrator for several different firms and individuals. Nonetheless, he dedicated a lot of his time to historical studies and published several articles on Campeche.

He died on 30 April 1942.

Fernando Berrón Barret

Fernando Berrón Barret was a friend and business partner of José Castellot, sharing with him a business called “La Montaña”.
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José García Gual

Gual was Gobernador Interino of Campeche from 9 August 1910 until 25 May 1911.

José María Castellot Batalla was a landowner, lawyer, banker and politician who benefited from the patronage of Joaquín Casasús and Porfirio Díaz.

Carleton Beals ^{Carleton Beals, Porfirio Díaz, Dictator of Mexico, Philadelphia, 1932, p. 379} writes "José R. Castellot, also a Casasús client, a voracious, unscrupulous business man with a mattress beard, was installed Governor in representation of the ruling clan, Pablo García and his son Luis García Mezquita. They had promoted a separatist movement of the region from Yucatán in 1857 and controlled the state directly or indirectly for about seventy-five years.
In 1903 Castellot Brothers, of which José was absolute owner, went bankrupt. Through Casasús, Castellot was named Governor to save himself. Authorized by Limantour he formed the Campeche Bank with watered capital, mostly bad paper and stock of the bankrupt company. The bank was represented in Mexico by Casasús and protected by Fernando Pimentel y Fagoaga, the Científico manager of the Central Bank. Castellot’s own brother was made governor inspector. Shortly, Castellot arrived in Mexico, his baggage stuffed with Campeche Bank bills. A 200,000 peso bond issue was authorized, half of which went into the pockets of Castellot and friends for organizing the bank and graft for securing the concession. Nearly 400,000 pesos were loaned out to bankrupt debtors to repay Castellot. The bank held the sack, like other Científico institutions served for personal enrichment rather than promotion of industry.
By 1908 Castellot owed the bank 853,000 pesos in addition to 400,000 paid him previously. Limantour then liquidated the bank so well that Castellot took out another 100,000. In March 1910 minority stockholders brought criminal action. The Central Bank accepted Castellot’s payments in properties worth less than 200,000 for the full amount of his and stool-pigeons’ debts of 1,300,000."

Castellot was born in Campeche in 1856. He was cofounder of the Banco Central Mexicano, Banco de Michoacán, Banco de Hidalgo, Banco de Campeche and Banco Agrícola é Hipotecario de México, partner in Hermanos Castellot, cofounder of the Almacenes Generales de Depósito de México y Veracruz, and cofounder of the Cía. Bancaria de Fomento y Bienes Raíces.

He was federal deputy from Hidalgo (1898 – 1902), senator from Chiapas (1902 – 1904, 1908 – 1912) and senator from Yucatán (1912 – 1916). He was governor of Campeche for short periods in 1902 and 1903.

After the fall of Díaz, he laid low and concentrated on business before becoming President Huerta’s representative in New York and then a conduit between Huerta’s successor Carvajal and the US government. When that failed he moved into exile in New York. He died on 7 April 1938.

Fernando Pimentel y Fagoaga was a businessman, banker and politician, a member of the Científicos and closely aligned to French interests.

Fernando was a member of Limantour’s Comisión Monetaria that developed the Ley General de Instituciones de Crédito of 1897. He was the first vice-president of the Banco Central Mexicano, later becoming president, and held positions on the boards of the Banco del Estado de México, Banco Peninsular Mexicano, Banco de Guanajuato, Banco de Michoacán and Banco de Morelos.

He was also president of the Compañía Bancaria de Obras y Bienes Raíces^{organised in 1905 as Compañía Bancaria de Obras y Bienes Raíces, with change of name to Compañía Bancaria de Fomento y Bienes Raíces in 1909}, president of the Mortgage and Credit Foncier Bank of Mexico, vicepresident of the Almacenes Generales de Depósito de México y Veracruz and director of the Caja de Préstamos as well as on the board of insurance companies, industries (the Compañía Fundidora de Fierro y Acero of Monterrey, the Compañía Industrial de Atlixco, the Compañía de las Fábricas de Papel de San Rafael y Anexas,  the Compañía Mexicana de Cigarros), and mining, power (the Compañía Hidroeléctrica de Chapala and the Compañía Mexicana de Petróleo El Aguila) and streetcar companies, among others.,

He was presidente municipal of Mexico City from January 1904 until 21 November 1911, a city council that by then was losing government capacity and that, was "politically innocuous, and 'colonized' by the financiers of the regime", headed of course by Pimentel himself.