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Humble (/ ˈ ʌ m b əl / UM-bəl) is a city located in the Houston metropolitan area. Humble became an oil boomtown in the early 20th century when oil was first discovered there in 1904. By 1905, the Humble oilfield was the largest producing oilfield in Texas. [5] Humble was home of the Humble Oil and Refining Company, a predecessor of Exxon. [5]
Southwestern Bell Advertising compiled directory listings, while Southwestern Bell Yellow Pages was a sales agent for directory advertising. In 1997, SBC began acquiring other telephone companies, including Pacific Telesis, Ameritech, and SNET. It began including the "SBC" branding with the names of its operating companies.
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Texas State Bank opened its first branch in 1991. The bank operated in Shelby, Angelina, and Tyler Counties. The bank was purchased by Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria along with State National Bank for $2.6 billion USD in 2006. [1] In 2019, the bank merged with American State Bank, with American State Bank being the successor of the merger. [2]
The Texas Commerce Bank, formerly known as Texas National Bank of Commerce Houston, was a product of the 1964 merger of the National Bank of Commerce and the Texas National Bank. [5] Texas Commerce changed its name to Chase Bank of Texas in 1998 and merged into The Chase Manhattan Bank in 2000. [6] In 1977, Lady Bird (Claudia Taylor) Johnson ...
The bank was founded as Plains National Bank by Alan B. White, former chairman and CEO, [4] in 1988 in Lubbock, Texas USA. In 1999, it expanded with a branch in Dallas, and acquired Dallas-based residential mortgage lender PrimeLending. The bank added branches in other major Texas markets throughout the 2000s.
After acquiring Bank of the West in Galveston, Texas in 1975, Bank of Santa Fe in 1977, Gulf National Bank in Texas City in 1982, and Gulf Shores Bank in 1985, the group changed the name of all banks in the network to Texas First Bank in on August 3, 1995. [citation needed]. The bank also opened branches in Kemah, Pirates Beach, Dickinson ...