March 18, 1852 - Henry Wells, William G. Fargo, several other New York investors created Wells, Fargo and Company to serve, profit from boom in California economy after the discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill in 1849; banking [bought gold, sold paper bank drafts as good as gold] and express [rapid delivery of gold, anything else valuable]; July 1852 - began transporting loads of freight between East Coast and isolated mining camps of California; 1869 - transcontinental railroad undermined company's dominant position in transportation, especially in mail and freight; 1905 - Wells Fargo & Co.’s Bank, San Francisco, formally separated from Wells Fargo & Co. Express; 1918 - out of express business.

1858 - Gustav, Charles, Albert, Emil Sutro (relatives of Adolf Sutro who completed Sutro Tunnel at Comstock Lode in 1878) founded Sutro & Co. in San Francisco to engage in general banking; oldest investment banking firm in San Francisco; oldest New York Stock Exchange Member Firm west of Mississippi; largest full-service regional investment firm in California; 1986 - acquired by John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co. (part of Freedom Securities Corporation subsidiary); April 2000 - Freedom Securities Corporation name changed to Tucker Anthony Sutro; October 2001 - acquired by Royal Bank of Canada for $600 million, merged into Dain Rauscher unit; ninth largest full-service securities firm in United States (nearly 2,100 retail representatives).

April 12, 1859 - Richard Tobin, others founded Hibernia Savings and Loan Society opened in upstairs room at Jackson and Montgomery Streets, San Francisco (second savings institution); 1900 - California's biggest bank; December, 1982 - acquired by First Pacific Holdings (Hong Kong); 1988 - acquired by Security Pacific Bank for $160 million.

June, 1860 - Joseph Donohoe, William Ralston, Eugene Kelley, Ralph Fretz opened The Bank of Donohoe, Ralston & Company in San Francisco; June 15, 1864 - The Bank of California incorporated; first incorporated commercial bank in West; June 30, 1864 - Donohoe, Ralston & Company dissolved, continued under name of Fretz & Ralston;  July 5, 1864  - Bank of California opened (in former offices of Fretz & Ralston); Darius Ogden Mills, respected Sacramento banker, president; William Ralston named Cashier; August 26, 1875 - Bank of California forced to close after news of William Ralston's failed mining investments sparked run on bank; August 27, 1875 - Ralston's body found in San Francisco bay; October 5, 1875 - Bank, reorganized, reopened; ; April 1, 1996 - merged with Union bank, formed Union Bank of California.

September 11, 1862 - Forty members organized San Francisco Stock and Exchange Board (adopted by-laws, elected officers) as marketplace for mining company stocks after Comstock Lode strike, first mining exchange; rented room in Montgomery Block; J. B. E. Cavallier President.

September 1, 1868 - Isaias William Hellman founded Hellman, Temple and Co., Los Angeles's second (but first successful) bank; 1871 - with  John G. Downey founded Farmers and Merchants Bank (lent money to Harrison Gray Otis to buy the Los Angeles Times, to Henry Huntington to build Pacific Electric line); first incorporated bank in Los Angeles; 1956 - merged with Security First National Bank; later named Security Pacific National Bank; 1992 - acquired by Bank of America.

July 11, 1874 - John W. Hinds, W. L. Tisdale, G. P. Starks founded Farmers National Gold Bank in San Jose, CA; 1880 - name changed to First National Bank of San Jose; 1979 - name changed to Bank of the West; 1998 - merged with Honolulu-based First Hawaiian Bank; new holding company named BancWest Corporation; May 2002 - BNP Paribas, largest shareholder, acquired balance of stock; merging United California bank (UCB) into Bank of the West, formed institution with $25 billion in assets, 6,000 employees; 2006 - operated nearly 680 banking locations in 19 Western, Midwestern states; third-largest Western-based commercial bank in U.S.

September 18, 1882 - 19 brokers signed charter, deposited $50 each, organized San Francisco Stock and Bond Exchange to trade in stocks and bonds of corporations other than mining shares, John Perry, Jr., President; March 1883 - daily list of quotations, transactions first printed; September 1, 1883 - total business in first year $9,490,621; 1957 - merged with Los Angeles Oil Exchange (organized December 1899), renamed Pacific Stock Exchange; May 26, 2001 - trading floor closed, transferred to electronic format, Archipelago Exchange; September 27, 2005 - acquired by Archipelago Holdings for $40 million, 10.8% equity stake.

October 1886 - William H. Crocker (son of Charles Crocker), R. C. Woolworth, W. E. Brown incorporated Crocker-Woolworth National Bank (founded 1883 as Crocker-Woolworth & Co., private bank); 1893 - Crocker succeeded as President; September 1, 1906 - became The Crocker National Bank of San Francisco; 1986 - acquired by Wells Fargo.

October 17, 1904 - Amadeo Peter Giannini opened the Bank of Italy in a former San Francisco, California saloon; a bank for "people who had never used one"; first day's deposits totaled $8,780; 1906 - rescued $80,000 in cash before the bank building burned during San Francisco earthquake (hid it in wagon full of oranges, brought it to his house for safekeeping); used money to reopen his bank days before any other bank, began making loans from a plank-and-barrel counter on the waterfront; 1909 - bought first branch, struggling San Jose bank; 1910 - assets of $6.5 million; 1920 - assets totaled $157 million, far outstripping the growth of any other California bank, dwarfed its onetime benefactor, Crocker National; sidestepped Federal Reserve system regulation which did not allow member banks to open new branches (establishing separate state banks for southern and northern California, in addition to the Bank of Italy, as well as another national bank, put them all under the control of a new holding company, BancItaly; 1927 - California regulations were changed to permit branch banking, Giannini consolidated his four banks into the Bank of America of California; 1928 - created another holding company to supplant BancItaly; called Transamerica to symbolize what Giannini hoped to accomplish in banking; 1929 - assets exceeded $1 billion mark;  1936 - fourth-largest banking institution in the United States (second-largest savings bank), assets had grown to $2.1 billion;  1945 - with assets of $5 billion, passed Chase Manhattan to become the world's largest bank; 1957 - Federal Reserve forced Transamerica to separate from Bank of America; 1959 - first bank to fund a small-business investment company; first U.S. bank to adopt electronic and computerized recordkeeping; 1960 - assets totaled $11.9 billion; 1961 - operations completely computerized; 1968 - BankAmerica Corporation created as holding company to hold the assets of Bank of America N.T. & S.A., to help bank expand and better challenge its archrival, Citibank; 1971 - A. W. "Tom" Clausen succeeded Rudy Peterson as chief executive officer (CEO); 1971-1978 - only one of 20 largest U.S. banks to average 15 percent growth; 1981 - $112.9 billion in assets; 1986 - First Interstate Bancorp offered $2.78 billion in an unsolicited bid for nation's second-largest banking group - rejected; April 22, 1992 - merged with Security Pacific Corporation, largest merger in history of banking; became nation's second-largest bank with nearly $190 billion in assets and $150 billion in deposits; April 13, 1998 - announced $65 billion merger with NationsBank.

1905 - Edward M. Downer founded Bank of Pinole (CA) with a small floor safe in a one-room office as an independent community bank; took title of Cashier; 1915 - became Second Vice President of The Mechanics Bank; 1919 - acquired controlling interest, became its President; 1939 - E.M. Downer Jr. became President; 1941-1945 - Bank's assets increased nearly 450%; 1971 - E. M. Downer III took over; 1995 -  over $1 billion in assets; one of largest banks headquartered in San Francisco Bay Area (over $2.5 billion in assets).

1910 - Group of Dixon, CA residents organized Northern Solano Bank, state-chartered savings bank; opened 12 days later in remodeled former ice cream parlor with a staff of two; May 1911 - moved to new bank building, shared space with haberdashery, harness maker, cigar maker, Wells Fargo Express Company, Pacific Telephone; 1962 - $7,700,000 in deposits; January 1, 1980 - relinquished Federal Charter in favor of State Charter (reduced Federal Reserve requirements, operated with higher lending limits); name changed to First Northern Bank of Dixon; 2000 – Board of Directors voted to create First Northern Community Bancorp, bank holding company; 2002 – received Trust Powers from California Department of Financial Institutions and FDIC.

1914 - Charles Blyth, Dean Witter formed Blyth, Witter & Company in San Francisco.

June 22, 1914 - Kaspere Cohn established Kaspere Cohn Commercial and Savings Bank in Los Angeles, CA, managed by Ben R. Meyer, Milton E. Getz (sons-in-law); March 1918 - name changed to Union Bank and Trust Company of Los Angeles; January 1958 - name changed to Union Bank; 1967 - Union Bancorp, one-bank holding company, established; 1979 - acquired by Standard Chartered PLC; 1988 - acquired by by California First Bank (subsidiary of The Bank of Tokyo California); April 1996 - Bank of California and Union Bank consolidated into UnionBanCal Corporation, bank holding company, primary subsidiary Union Bank of California, N.A.; 1999 - UnionBanCal Corporation went public, majority-owned by The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Ltd.; among 25 largest banks in the U.S.

1922 - Frank Weeden, salesman for Blyth, Witter & Company, and Norman Weeden (younger brother) founded Weeden & Co. in San Francisco; specialized in handling transactions for short list of institutional clients, mostly in conservative municipal bonds; starting capital of $25,000.

1924 - Dean G. Witter, Guy Witter (brother), Jean and Ed Witter (cousins), Fritz Janney (brother-in-law) founded Dean Witter & Company,retail brokerage firm in San Francisco, CA; 1938 - established national research department; 1945 - one of first retail securities firms to formally train account executives; 1962 - became first firm to use electronic data processing; 1969 - about 80 branches in U.S., Canada; largest investment firm on West Coast; 1978 - merged with Reynolds & Co.; renamed Dean Witter Reynolds; 1981 - acquired by Sears Roebuck for $661 million; 1986 - launched Discover Card (credit card); 1993 - 20% of company spun off, 80% distributed to shareholders; renamed Dean Witter, Discover and Company; May 31, 1997 - merged with Morgan Stanley Group Inc. in $10 billion deal; largest U.S. securities firm measured in terms of market value; renamed , Dean Witter, Discover & Company; 1998 - renamed Morgan Stanley Dean Witter.

1946 - Edward Heller (had worked with Ralph Flanders, co-founder of American Research and Development; grandfather of California venture capital), 4 other businessmen involved in privately financing small businesses, started Industrial Capital Corporation with $2 million; Pacific Coast Enterprises Corporation (founded in 1946 with $1 million, made loans between $5000 - $100,000, provided managerial assistance to companies to which it loaned) - link of the venture capital innovation

with war financing and reconversion; founder of each organization had arranged financing for new military supply ventures while serving as a liaison officer with a Federal Reserve bank, had been involved with the Surplus Property Board (oversaw transfer of government military production facilities to private industry; West Coast venture capitalists initially provided more conventional business financing than Eastern counterparts; usually invested as individuals, often as a sideline to  work with established financial organizations.

October 1947 - Paul F. Wendt (Professor of Finance at Berkeley) conducted study commissioned by California State Reconstruction and Reemployment Commission; published "The Availability of Capital to Small Business in California in 1945-46," in The Journal of Finance.

1958 - General William H. Draper, Jr., former Undersecretary of the Army, co-founded Draper, Gaither & Anderson in Palo Alto, CA; first privately funded California venture capital limited partnership; first professional, prominent west-coast venture capital firm; 1966 - Laurence Rockefeller withdrew his capital; holdings profitably distributed to the general and limited partners.

1958 – Bank of America launched BankAmericard in Fresno, CA (innovative "revolving credit" feature); 1970 - Visa incorporated in Delaware as National BankAmericard Inc. (NBI); 1974 - International Bankcard Company (IBANCO) formed to administer BankAmericard program internationally; 1976 - BankAmericard changed name to Visa; 1983 - launched global ATM network, provided 24-hour cash access to cardholders around world; 1997 - annual global sales volume reached $ trillion; 2001 - annual global sales volume reached $2 trillion; 2004 - global debit volume surpassed credit volume; 2007- completed corporate restructuring, created new global corporation, Visa Inc.;   March 18, 2008 - went public in largest IPO in history ($17.9 billion).

1959 - Frank Chambers established Continental Capital Corporation as a Small Business Investment Company (SBIC); replaced by limited partnership structure in late 1960s.

September 1959 - Origin of electronic banking (nearly decade in design, testing, manufacture before installation) as Bank of America, largest bank in world, pioneer of branch banking, installed 32 ERMA systems (Electronic Recording Method of Accounting) in cities throughout California to automate labor intensive job of handling customers' checks; first system of automation for commercial banking; one of first large scale data processing machines for business vs. scientific, military use (Stanford Research Institute  gave public, press demonstration of prototype electronic accounting machine in September 1955; B of A selected General Electric Corporation to manufacture production models in April 1956); each machine processed up to 33,000 accounts per hour (output of about 135 experienced bookkeepers); allowed bank to continue to keep pace with rapid population growth of California; 1967 - replaced by an IBM 360.

1961 - Arthur Rock (former investment banker at Hayden Stone), Thomas J. (“Tommy”) Davis, Jr. (former vice president of of Kern County Land Company) established Davis & Rock, venture capital firm with $3.5 million raised from individuals, in San Francisco, CA; invested $280,000 in Scientific Data Systems (acquired by Xerox in 1969 for $450 million); 1968 - partnership not renewed (Davis formed Mayfield Fund).

1961 - Sutter Hill, originally a real estate development firm, began venture investing; 1962 - received SBIC license.

1963 - Chuck Schwab and two other partners launched Investment Indicator, an investment advisory newsletter (3,000 subscribers paid $84 a year at its height); May 1, 1975 - created discount brokerage firm; 1977 - opened office in Seattle, first branch outside of California; began offering seminars for customers; 1979 - invested in the BETA mainframe system, automated transaction and record keeping system; 1983 - acquired by Bank of America for $57 million; 1985 - one millionth customer account opened; 1987 - reacquired by management for $280 million; went public.

1968 - George Quist left BofA SBIC, joined William Hambrecht; formed Hambrecht & Quist.

1972 - Eugene Kleiner, Thomas Perkins established Kleiner, Perkins in Palo Alto, CA; first technology executives (vs. bankers) to enter venture capital.

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