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Acquisitions in 1999–2000. Continuing the Norwest tradition of making numerous smaller acquisitions each year, Wells Fargo acquired 13 companies during 1999 with total assets of $2.4 billion. The largest of these was the February purchase of Brownsville, Texas -based Mercantile Financial Enterprises, Inc., which had $779 million in assets.
Concord stagecoach in Wells Fargo History Museum, San Francisco, CA The company operates the Wells Fargo History Museum at 420 Montgomery Street, San Francisco. Displays include original stagecoaches , photographs, gold nuggets and mining artifacts, the Pony Express , telegraph equipment, and historic bank artifacts.
Wells Fargo was an American banking company based in San Francisco, California, that was acquired by Norwest Corporation in 1998. During the California Gold Rush in early 1848 at Sutter's Mill near Coloma, California, financiers and entrepreneurs from all over North America and the world flocked to California, drawn by the promise of huge profits.
The Wells Fargo History Museum is a museum operated by Wells Fargo in its corporate headquarters in San Francisco, California, that feature exhibits about the company's history. Some of the museums' displays include original stagecoaches , photographs, gold nuggets and mining artifacts, the Pony Express , telegraphs and historic bank artifacts.
Henry Wells (December 12, 1805 – December 10, 1878) was an American businessman important in the history of both the American Express Company and Wells Fargo & Company. [1] Wells worked as a freight agent before joining the express business. His companies, which were the predecessors of American Express and Wells Fargo, competed with the ...
The List of Wells Fargo presidents includes those persons who have served as President of Wells Fargo since 1852. It includes the presidents of the express mail company from 1852 to 1918 and of the Wells Fargo Bank, which was separated from the express company in 1905 and merged with the Nevada National Bank to form the Wells Fargo Nevada National Bank - the lineal ancestor of the present ...
The merged company claims legacy Wells Fargo’s history (dating to 1852) as its own, and also adopted legacy Wells Fargo's ticker symbol, WFC. However, it retains Norwest's pre-1998 stock price history and corporate structure, and all pre-1998 SEC filings are under Norwest, not Wells Fargo.
This location features a re-created 19th-century Wells Fargo Express Company office, artifacts of company history and the California Gold Rush era, and exhibits about the company's role in California Gold Rush commerce. (The other Wells Fargo History Museum in Sacramento is located in the Wells Fargo Center.)