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Goldsby and his gang held up a Frisco train Wells-Fargo Express Company and the St Louis and San Francisco railroad train at Red Fork. [32] Correatta, Oklahoma: 20 October 1894 Crawford Goldsby and his gang Crawford Goldsby and his gang robbed a train. [33] Twin Mountain, Colorado 9 September 1897 "Black Jack" Ketchum and his brother
Holladay sold his stage routes to Wells Fargo Express in 1866 for $1.5 million. In August 1868, Holladay moved to Oregon, where he had organized the construction of a railroad along the Willamette River, purchasing the illegally incorporated Oregon Central Railroad of Salem, turning it into the Oregon and California Railroad Company. [6]
Wells Fargo & Company 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.
Chicago and Great Eastern Railway: CC&IC: 1866–1868 Chicago and Rock Island Railroad: CRI&P: 1866 Chicago and Alton Railroad: Alton 1863–1931 1862–1863 Chicago and North Western Railway: NIRC, UP 1911–1995 1980–1981 1871–187X 187X–1911 1859–1890 Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railway: PRR 1861–1869 1858–1861 St. Louis ...
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. Former Wells Fargo stockholders held 52.5 percent of the newly combined company and former Norwest stockholders held 47.5 percent. Paul Hazen, chairman and CEO of Wells Fargo, become chairman of ...
In May 2007, Wells Fargo acquired Greater Bay Bancorp, which had $7.4 billion in assets, in a $1.5 billion transaction. [4] [5] In June 2007, Wells Fargo acquired CIT's construction unit. [6] In January 2008, Wells Fargo acquired United Bancorporation of Wyoming. [7] In August 2008, Wells Fargo acquired Century Bancshares of Texas. [8]
It was founded in 1866 by financier Clarence H. Clark (1833–1906) and several partners as the Fidelity Insurance, Trust, & Safe Deposit Company with initial capital of $250,000. Besides selling insurance and transacting trust business, the company was the second U.S. bank to offer safe deposit services. [ 1 ]
From 1866 until 1889, the Pony Express logo was used by stagecoach and freight company Wells Fargo, which provided secure mail service. Wells Fargo used the Pony Express logo for its guard and armored-car services. [citation needed] The logo continued to be used when other companies took over the security business into the 1990s. Since 2001 ...