Capital City Bank was established in 1892 as Neese Brothers Bank in Richland, Kansas. In the early 1900s, the name was changed to the Richland State Bank. In 1930, Georgia Neese Gray began helping her father, Albert Neese, run the family business. In 1935, she began working at the bank as an assistant cashier and following her father’s death in 1937, she became president of the bank. President Harry Truman named Georgia the first woman treasurer of the United States in 1949. In 1964, the Richland State Bank relocated to Topeka in a new building at the Southeast corner of 37th and Topeka Boulevard and was renamed Capital City State Bank and Trust Company.
