Marine Midland Bank was a bank formerly headquartered in Buffalo with several hundred branches throughout the state of New York.
Marine Midland began in 1850 in Buffalo as the Marine Trust Company with the objective of financing the new shipping trade on the Great Lakes. As the bank expanded into New York state it added the Midland to its name.
In the summer of 1850, eight men gathered in Buffalo to form a new commercial bank. They had come from throughout the state—General James S. Wadsworth of Geneseo, J. P. Beekman of Kinderhook, John Arnot of Elmira, John Magee and Constant Cook of Bath, William R. Gwinn of Medina, and George Palmer and James M. Ganson of Buffalo. The geographic diversity of the men indicated that the plan was to extend eventually the bank's services across the state.
Marine Midland Bank N.A. accomplished that goal and has gone even further. It was the nation's 13th largest commercial bank with about 300 banking offices in more than New York communities and about 25 offices in foreign countries.
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