The Story Of The Trust Companies Classic Reprint

Excerpt from The Story of the Trust Companies Trust companies are a modern development. Their literature, as revealed in the bibliography at the close of this volume, has been of limited scope, although statistics have now been avail able for some years and the legal aspects and technical methods of Operating the companies have had bestowed upon them a considerable degree of attention. The present book is intended, with an avoidance of technicalities, to sketch the beginnings and advances of the older companies, and to bring the individual narratives of a number of the largest institutions down to 1916, - a point Within one hundred years of the original announcement by an American corporation of an intention to trans act a trust business. 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.