Banking in the Great Northern Territory : An Illustrated History

by Slade, George Richard

• ISBN13: 9781890434663
• ISBN10: 1890434663
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-08-15
• Publisher: Afton Historical Society Pr

Summary

As the Great-Grandson of railroad baron James J. Hill-who acquired and orchestrated the reorganization of the First National Bank of St. Paul, a cornerstone of First Bank Stock Corporation, now U.S. Bank-Dick has a personal, family interest in the history of banking in Minnesota. As a long-time participant in Twin Cities banking-he worked five decades for predecessor banks of both U.S. Bank and Wells Fargo-Dick had a front-row seat as the regional banks disappeared and the two national bank goliaths emerged. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Foreword	9	(3)
Acknowledgments	12	(3)
Introduction	15	(5)
I. TWINS IN THE MAKING (to 1930)
Setting the Stage	20	(10)
Money and Banking 101	30	(16)
Frontier Banking in Minnesota	46	(10)
Twin Cities Banking Refined	56	(24)
Birth of the Holding Companies	80	(22)
II. STRUGGLES TO SURVIVE (1931--1945)
Years of Trial	102	(16)
Rebuilding the Economy	118	(10)
III. GROWING PAINS (1946--1970)
Evolution of the Species	128	(12)
The Board	140	(8)
The Age of Computers	148	(10)
IV. COMING OF AGE (1971--1985)
Regulation and Inflation	158	(8)
A Script for the Future	166	(20)
V. REACHING MATURITY (1986--1999)
The Edifice Complex	186	(12)
New Frontiers in Banking	198	(18)
Twins No More	216	(6)
The Next Century	222	(16)
Sweeping Up	238	(4)
Appendices	242	(2)
Notes	244	(5)
Bibliography	249	(1)
Credits	250	(2)
Index	252