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21 unusual facts about Wells Fargo


1878 in the United States

July 26 – In California, the poet and American West outlaw calling himself "Black Bart" makes his last clean getaway when he steals a safe box from a Wells Fargo stagecoach.

Aurora Village–Wells College Historic District

Its significant business entrepreneurs included men such as Henry Wells, founder of American Express and Wells Fargo, whose operations created new express mail and banking services that spanned New York state and reached to the developing state of California.

In 1868, Wells Seminary, later Wells College, was founded by Henry Wells, founder of American Express (1850) and Wells Fargo (1852).

Battle of Owyhee River

Among the native horses and stores captured was a Wells Fargo mail pouch lost in the earlier Paiute raid.

Cherry Creek, Nevada

Wells Fargo opened a station in Cherry Creek, and the Cherry Creek post office also opened for business in 1873.

E.B. Morgan House

E.B. Morgan became an early investor in several of Wells' business ventures, including his American Express Company and the Wells Fargo Company.

Eddy Waller

The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp as Rawhide Geraghty in "The Truth About Rawhide Geraghty" (1959); Hugh O'Brian as Wyatt Earp rides shotgun for the retiring 69-year-old Wells Fargo stagecoach driver Rawhide Geraghty on his last run from Tucumcari, New Mexico Territory, to Amarillo, Texas.

Ernie Koy, Jr.

He later worked for Austin County State Bank, which was eventually sold to Wells Fargo.

Frederick County, Maryland

The largest employers aside from the government are the Frederick Memorial Healthcare System, Bechtel, SAIC, and Wells Fargo.

Grosvenor P. Lowrey

Grosvenor P. Lowrey (September 25, 1831 - April 21, 1893) was a 19th-century corporate attorney who served as consul to numerous powerful interests like Thomas Edison, Western Union, Wells Fargo and The New York Metropolitan Railway Company.

James Riely Gordon

In Seguin, Texas, near San Antonio, the Nolte family hired Gordon to build the E. Nolte & Sons Bank (now a Wells Fargo branch) facing the town square (designed 1890, finished 1896).

John Otto Siegel

--This may have been when Seigel started driving a wagon, later working for Wells Fargo as a driver according to his World War I draft card.--> In 1912, Seigel now is a "sailor" at the same address.

His draft card also shows that he is a wagon driver "teamster" working for Wells Fargo Company Express.

Marbles Kids Museum

The Wells Fargo IMAX Theatre is North Carolina's only Giant Screen certified 3D theater and features a screen five stories high, and a sound system capable of supplying 12,000 watts of surround sound.

Minneapolis Thanksgiving Day fire

The new headquarters is now known as the Wells Fargo Center, after Norwest merged with Wells Fargo.

The Minneapolis Thanksgiving Day fire destroyed two buildings, covering an entire block of Downtown Minneapolis on November 25–26, 1982: the 16-story headquarters of Northwestern National Bank (now Wells Fargo) and the vacant, partially demolished location formerly occupied by Donaldson's department store, which had recently moved across the street to the new City Center mall.

Operation Homefront

Operation Homefront created the Homes on the Homefront program through a new partnership with Chase Bank, Bank of America and Wells Fargo.

Recognition Professionals International

A non-profit organization, RPI is currently sponsored by companies including Discover Financial Services, BMW Manufacturing, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Wells Fargo, and Sears.

Seven Men from Now

As they all spend the night at the station, Masters tells the Greers that Stride was once the sheriff of Silver Springs, and his wife was killed during the robbery of the Wells Fargo freight office.

The Mall at Sierra Vista

Additionally, stores, eating establishments, a bank and hotel have opened around the perimeter of the mall; these include: Applebee's, Wells Fargo, Jack in the Box, Best Buy, Home Depot, Texas Roadhouse and Fairfield Inn.

William Fargo

In 1851, with Wells and others, he organized the firm of Wells Fargo & Company to conduct an express business between New York and San Francisco by way of the Isthmus of Panama and on the Pacific coast, where it long had a virtual monopoly.


Attensity

Corporations that use or have used Attensity software include Airbus, Charles Schwab, Citigroup, HP, JetBlue, Lloyds Banking Group, Safeway, Siemens, StubHub, TiVo, Travelocity, Unilever, Walgreens, Wells Fargo and Whirlpool.

Dorothy Granger

Granger worked on a variety of television shows through the 1950s, including The Abbott and Costello Show, I Married Joan, Father Knows Best, Topper, Lassie, Death Valley Days and Wells Fargo.

National Association of Affordable Housing Lenders

The organization was created in 1990 and is headquartered in Washington, D.C. Among the financial institutions that are NAAHL members are Bank of America, Bank of New York, Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase, Wachovia and Wells Fargo.

Paul Thelen

At Mercer, Thelen worked on developing targeted customer marketing solutions and customer database mining programs for several companies including First Interstate Bank (acquired by Wells Fargo) and Sprint Telecommunications.

Pioneer City

Weiss bought a 19th Century-style (it was not actually made in the 19th Century) steam locomotive in Pennsylvania and two paddle-wheel boats built in Miami for the park, as well as refurbished antique fire engines and a Wells Fargo stagecoach.

Rice-Eccles Stadium

However, in 1997, Spencer Eccles, a Utah alumnus and chairman of Utah's biggest bank, First Security Corporation (now part of Wells Fargo), announced that the George S. and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation would donate $10 million toward the project.