Talk:First National Bank Alaska

Bank history/lineage
I've long been interested in the history and lineage of Alaska's financial institutions, as many of them failed and/or merged during the late 1980s and we've acknowledged precious little of that, or most of any other prior history for that matter. I came across a Federal Reserve website which contained useful information. I'm not 100 percent convinced that it's complete. Here's what I came up with:


 * The First National Bank of Anchorage – founded 1922, changed to current name 2001
 * First National Bank (Juneau) – founded 1898, acquired 1962
 * First Bank of Valdez – founded 1901, acquired 1970
 * First Federal Bank of Alaska (Anchorage) – founded 1955 as First Federal Savings and Loan Association, changed from S&L to bank 1983, acquired 1990 after failure
 * Arctic First Federal Savings and Loan Association (Fairbanks) – founded 1958, acquired 1981
 * Peninsula Savings and Loan Association (Soldotna) – founded 1979, acquired 1986 after failure
 * Frontier Savings and Loan Association (Fairbanks) – founded 1982, acquired 1987 after failure

Anything missing from this? I know that FNBA aggressively expanded throughout Alaska in the early years of statehood, when the Cuddys joined with the Rasmusons in lobbying the legislature to allow for branch banking. RadioKAOS / Talk to me, Billy / Transmissions 12:12, 24 December 2015 (UTC)
 * One thing I'm pretty sure I missed. It's far from the greatest source, but it is a third-party source.  Anchorage Place Names by Rae Arno mentioned that Winfield Ervin was an employee of the Brown & Hawkins Store, who had established a branch in Anchorage following its founding.  She further mentioned that Ervin founded the bank at their behest when deposits became too much to handle at the store, as it was common for merchants to engage in ad hoc banking back in those days.  The impression I get is that the B. M. Behrends Bank in Juneau started in more or less the same fashion. RadioKAOS / Talk to me, Billy / Transmissions  01:55, 17 May 2018 (UTC)