Search results
Norman Wait Harris (August 15, 1846 – July 15, 1916) was an American banker. He founded Chicago-based N.W. Harris & Co., the predecessor of Harris Bank as well as its affiliate Harris, Forbes & Co. and later Harris, Hall & Co. Biography.
Life Ins. Co., Cincinnati; organized, 1882, banking house of N. W. Harris & Co., Chicago, New York, and Boston; Harris Trust & Saving Bank, Chicago, 1907-1913; also of Harris, Forbes & Co., New York, and N. W. Harris & Co., Inc., Boston. Many years mem.
Harris Bank (originally N.W Harris & Co.) was established in 1882 in Chicago by Norman Wait Harris. Bank of Montreal became the first Canadian bank to acquire an American bank in 1984.
Norman Wait Harris was educated in the Westfield (Mass.) Academy, and when eighteen years of age began his business career as soliciting agent for a life insurance company at Cincinnati, O. Two years later he became the general agent of the Equitable Life Assurance Society at Cincinnati.
Jun 20, 2024 · When Norman Wait Harris, the patriarch of the family, passed away in 1916, the Harrises donated another $400,000 to the Trust as a special memorial fund. Bank offices hosted Trust staff and Executive Committee meetings for the first several years of the Trust’s existence.
In 1882, Norman Wait Harris established N.W. Harris & Co., a Chicago-based municipal bond broker and the forerunner of Harris Bank. Harris Trust and Savings Bank was established in 1907. It merged with Chicago National Bank in 1960 and was restructured as Harris Bank, N.A. in 1972.
May 1, 2024 · The Chicago Community Trust was established in 1915 as the second ever community foundation in the United States. Founded by American banker Norman Wait Harris and his eldest son Albert W. Harris, the father-son duo embraced a bold vision which championed philanthropy and social change.
In 1883, 35-year-old Norman Wait Harris founded N. W. Harris & Co., a small Chicago-based investment banking firm. By 1890, when Harris opened an office in New York, the company had nearly $2 million in assets.
The Norman Wait Harris Foundation Records contains correspondence, minutes, questionnaires, financial records, reports, contracts, programs, and drafts of lectures. Material relates primarily to the annual Harris Institute which sponsored conferences and public lectures on international affairs.
Germany and the Future of Europe. The Norman Wait Harris Memorial Foundation Lectures, 1950. Edited by HANS J. MORGEN-THAU. Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 195 1.-viii, 180 pp. $3.50. To those of us who have been following recent developments in Western Germany with increasing alarm-and have been dismayed at
