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Cover of US Credit and Payments, 1800–1935, Part I

US Credit and Payments, 1800–1935, Part I

Edited by Ronnie J. Phillips

  • Published: 2013
  • DOI: 10.4324/9781848932944
  • Set ISBN: 9781848932944

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Savings Banks and Morris Plan Financial Institutions


The first savings bank in the US was the Provident Institution for Savings, which was incorporated in Boston, 13 December 1816. As of 2012, there were 7,235 chartered and federally regulated financial institutions that were members of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and of those, 519 included in their name ‘savings bank’. These institutions arose to provide a way for the average worker to save some of their income.

Volume Contents

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    Front Matter
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    Introduction By Ronnie J. Phillips
  • Savings Banks
    • A History of Savings Banks in the United States (1876) By Emerson W. Keyes
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        Overview By Ronnie J. Phillips
      • A History of Savings Banks in the United States from their Inception in 1816 down to 1874, 2 vols (New York: Bradford Rhodes, 1876), vol. 1, 2nd sect., chs 5, 6, 7, pp. 38–68l; vol. 1, 8th sect., chs 27–32, pp. 303–53
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          Second Section: Savings Banks in the State of Massachusetts
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          Eighth Section: Savings Banks in the State of New York
    • ‘Savings Banks’ (1878) By John P. Townsend
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        Overview By Ronnie J. Phillips
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        ‘Savings Banks’, Journal of Social Science, 9 (1878), pp. 44–66
    • ‘Co-Operative Building and Loan Associations in the State of New York’ (1888) By Seymour Dexter
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        Overview By Ronnie J. Phillips
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        Seymour Dexter, ‘Co-operative Building and Loan Associations in the State of New York’, Journal of Social Science, 25 (December 1888), pp. 139–48
    • ‘Report on Savings Banks and Building Associations of Illinois’ (1888) By Jeremiah Whipple Jenks
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        Overview By Ronnie J. Phillips
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        ‘Report on Savings Banks and Building Associations of Illinois’, Journal of Social Science, 25 (December 1888), pp. 125–41
    • ‘Savings Banks in the United States’ (1888) By John P. Townsend
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        Overview By Ronnie J. Phillips
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        ‘Savings Banks in the United States’, Journal of Social Science, 25 (December 1888), pp. 100–11
    • Co-Operative Banking: Its Principles and Practice (1907) By Henry W. Wolff
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        Overview By Ronnie J. Phillips
      • Co-operative Banking: Its Principles and Practice (London: P. S. King & Son, 1907), ch. 5, pp. 89–119; ch. 9, pp. 222–78
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          Chapter V
          Unlimited Liability Banks
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          Chapter IX
          Co-Operative Mortgage-Credit
  • Morris Plan Financial Institutions
    • A Register of His Papers in the Library of Congress, prepared by Roslyn R. Wright and Paul D. Ledvina, revised by John R. Monagle By Arthur J. Morris
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        Overview By Ronnie J. Phillips
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        A Register of his Papers in the Library of Congress, prepared by Roslyn R. Wright and Paul D. Ledvina, revised by John R. Monagle. Manuscript Division, Library of Congress Washington, DC, 2000
    • The Morris Plan of Industrial Banking (1913) By Robert McBlair
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        Overview By Ronnie J. Phillips
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        The Morris Plan Of Industrial Banking (Fidelity Corporation Of America, 1913)
    • Principles of Banking (1916) By Harold G. Moulton
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        Overview By Ronnie J. Phillips
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        Principles of Banking: A Series of Selected Materials (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1916), pt 8, A. The Loan Sharks, nos. 169–172, pp. 339–47; pt 1, B. Long Time Investment Credit, no. 196, p. 395; no. 199, pp. 400–1
    • The Morris Plan of Industrial Loans and Investments, 2nd edn (1917)
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        Overview By Ronnie J. Phillips
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        The Morris Plan of Industrial Loans and Investments, 2nd edn (New York: Industrial Finance Corporation, 1917)
    • Thrift: The Morris Plan Bulletin (1918-19)
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        Overview By Ronnie J. Phillips
      • Thrift: The Morris Plan Bulletin, 1:1–2 (Industrial Finance Corporation, 1918–19): Thrift The Morris Plan Bulletin, Vol. 1 January, 1918 No. 1
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          The Application Department By Arthur J. Morris
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          How I Keep Down the Cost Per Dollar Loaned By Arthur A. Blumeyer
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          The Canton Morris Plan Bank By William E. Woodward
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          Looking Them Over
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          How I Sell Investment Certificates By E. M. Folger
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          The Chicago Morris Plan Bank
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          The Company at Brockton By William E. Woodward
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          Uses of the Morris Plan for Life Insurance By Hyman L. Roth
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    Back Matter