Excerpt from Century of American Savings Banks: Published Under the Auspices of the Savings, Banks Association of the State, of New York in Commemoration of the Centenary of Savings Banks in America, New York Volume As a fitting contribution to the century of achievement which this work seeks to commemorate, an attempt has been made in this volume to present a brief, authentic history of each of the one hundred and forty-one Savings Banks in the State of New York. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.