Frontier Families: The Records and Johnstons in American History
History / Cottonwood Press, 2010
MidFirst Bank was founded in the early 1980s when George Records, then president of Midland Mortgage Company, bought a savings and loan in Stilwell, Oklahoma. He and his father-in-law, Ross Johnston, had plenty of precedent in entrepreneurship. Their ancestors were pioneers in the classic mold who moved with the tide of westward migration. Tempered in the crucible of the frontier, generations of Records and Johnstons embodied the qualities that we associate with America’s foundation story, including boundless optimism and courage in the face of adversity.