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First Union was a bank holding company that provided financial services in eleven states in the eastern U.S. It merged with Wachovia in 2001 to form Wachovia Corporation, which later became part of Wells Fargo.
Learn about the history, products, and controversies of FNBO, a bank headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska and the oldest national bank west of the Missouri River. FNBO provides financial services, issues credit cards, and operates in 8 states in the Midwest.
Fernando Amorsolo was a Filipino painter of rural landscapes and portraits, known as the "Grand Old Man of Philippine Art". He was the first National Artist of the Philippines and influenced by impressionism, cubism and Spanish masters.
The First National Exhibitors' Circuit was founded in 1917 by the merger of 26 of the biggest first-run cinema chains in the United States. It eventually controlled over 600 cinemas, more than 200 of them first-run houses (as opposed to the less lucrative second-run or neighbourhood theatres to which films moved when their initial box office receipts dwindled).
First National Bank was a bank in Philadelphia. Chartered in 1863, it was the first national bank created under the banking reforms of the Civil War that began to define the modern U.S. banking system, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] and the first commercial bank to issue a federal banknote .
FNB Corporation is a public company based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, that operates First National Bank and other subsidiaries. It has assets of nearly $46 billion and serves customers in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Maryland, West Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia and Washington, D.C.
Mary Church Terrell was an American civil rights activist, journalist, teacher and one of the first African-American women to earn a college degree. She was a founding member of the NAACP and the National Association of Colored Women, and served as its first president.
The first chartered bank in the United States, founded by Robert Morris and Alexander Hamilton in 1781. It served as the country's de facto central bank until 1785, when it was rechartered by Pennsylvania and later merged with other banks.