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First National Bank of Perkasie minute books and ledgers
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Held at: Perkasie Historical Society [Contact Us]513 W. Walnut St., Perkasie, Pennsylvania, 18944-1345
This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held at the Perkasie Historical Society. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are physically available in their reading room, and not digitally available through the web.
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The First National Bank of Perkasie in Bucks County, Pennsylvania was organized by 31 shareholders on January 11, 1901. Henry Moyer was appointed its first chairman.
In April of 1955, the First National Bank of Perkasie, Quakertown Trust, Dublin National Bank, and Perkasie Trust merged to form the Bucks County Bank and Trust Company. This bank became Independence Bancorp, then CoreStates Financial, then eventually Wells Fargo.
Bibliography:
National Quotation Bureau. The National Monthly Stock Summary vol. 107 (October 1, 1960). Page 313.
This collection consists of six volumes of records of the First National Bank of Perkasie, including the first and fourth minute books of the bank (1901-1912 and 1928-1935), a statement book (1906-1910) and a savings fund ledger. Also included are a few pamphlets and ephemera relating to the bank and its successor, Bucks County Bank and Trust Company.
Summary descriptive information on this collection was compiled in 2012-2014 as part of a project conducted by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania to make better known and more accessible the largely hidden collections of small, primarily volunteer run repositories in the Philadelphia area. The Hidden Collections Initiative for Pennsylvania Small Archival Repositories (HCI-PSAR) was funded by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
This is a preliminary finding aid. No physical processing, rehousing, reorganizing, or folder listing was accomplished during the HCI-PSAR project.
In some cases, more detailed inventories or finding aids may be available on-site at the repository where this collection is held; please contact Perkasie Historical Society directly for more information.
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- Perkasie Historical Society
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- Finding aid prepared by Celia Caust-Ellenbogen and Faith Charlton through the Historical Society of Pennsylvania's Hidden Collections Initiative for Pennsylvania Small Archival Repositories
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- This preliminary finding aid was created as part of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania's Hidden Collections Initiative for Pennsylvania Small Archival Repositories. The HCI-PSAR project was made possible by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
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