Excerpt from A History of the Philadelphia Savings Fund Society, 1816-1916 This history of The Philadelphia Saving Fund Society was compiled from its minutes, records and account books to com memorate its centenary. As it was the first savings bank in this Country to organize and to do business, it is proper that the expectations on the part of its friends and of the friends of savings banks of some account of its one hundred years of existence should not be disappointed. 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.