The bank and the original investor split those investment profits.

Today, many of those original investors still own a stake in the bank.

The concern sold 10.75 million shares, a 50 percent stake, with about half of the proceeds going to original investors.

Her father was one of the original investors, even before the Deluge.

Mr. Silverman said the original investors, who put up $30 million, had made four and five times their money.

Within a year after the paper was started, most of the original investors were gone.

Each of the 63 original investors bought between $500 and $5,000 of company stock at $100 a share.

That is a loss of 26 percent for original investors.

Sam Stahl, one of the original investors, then led the company until he also died in 1964.

The original investors, he said, made four to five times the $30 million they put up for the chain.