Banking & Finance
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).
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.
Joseph A. Donohoe
-
Donohoe,
Ralston & Company
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Darius Ogden
Mills - First president, Bank of California
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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.
John Perry, Jr.
- President, San Francisco Stock and Bond Exchange
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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.
William H. Crocker - Crocker Bank
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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 to 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).
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.
Kaspere
Cohn - Union Bank of Los Angeles
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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.
Dean Witter - retail brokerage (http://www.deanwitterfoundation.
org/ images/deanwitterportrait.gif)
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).
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.
April 13, 1998
- NationsBank, BankAmerica announced $62.5 billion merger.
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museum also showcases Wells Fargo’s role in regional history.