Irving Trust

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Irving Trust was a bank headquartered in New York City, and the principal subsidinary (from 1965 on) of the Irving Bank Corporation. As of 1980, it was the 7th largest bank holding company in the United States, and 13th largest in the United States, based on total assets. From the early 1930s, until it was eventually acquired, its headquarters was located at One Wall Street, at what is now known as the Bank of New York Building.

The bank had its origins in 1851, when the Irving Bank of the City of New York was founded. In June of 1865, it converted from a state bank to a bank chartered under the National Bank Act of 1863, and became the Irving National Bank of New York. In 1907, after a merger, it became the Irving National Exchange Bank of New York, changing its name to the Irving National Bank in 1912. In February, 1923, it merged with and into the Columbia Trust Company, a New York State-chartered bank, creating the Irving Bank-Columbia Trust Company. Later, in 1926, it acquired by merger the American Exchange-Pacific Bank, and changed its name to the American Exchange Irving Trust Company. Finally, in 1929, it changed its name to the Irving Trust Company, the name under which it was known until 1989, when the Bank of New York was merged with and into the Irving Trust Company, the surviving entity using the Irving Trust Company's state charter, but the Bank of New York's name.

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