Our first Corporators

Thirteen named and, “their associates and successors are hereby made a corporation by the name of the East Cambridge Five Cents Savings Bank.”*

Frederic W. Holland Joseph Whitney
George Stevens William Parmenter
John S. Ladd Caleb Hayden
Ephraim Buttrick Lewis Hall
Lorenzo Marrett Norman S. Cate
Charles B. Stevens Samuel Slocumb
Anson Hooker

*Articles of Incorporation, Approved by the Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, April 29, 1854

First Meeting of the Corporation
May 11th, 12th, & 19th, 1854

John S. Ladd William Parmenter
F. W. Holland Ephraim Buttrick
L. Marrett Ezra Ripley
John M. Bentley Caleb Hayden
Gus Underboard Henry Noyes
Elizabeth Koagden Anson Hooker
Charles B. Stevens Norman S. Cate
Joseph Whitney Samuel Slocumb

A meeting composed of 11 of the 13 named in the Act of Incorporation and five others legally interested (16)

Elected 32 Associate Members

Henry S. Hill H. N. Hovey
Enos Reed Jesse Hall
Samuel Parker Francis Staper
W. Wyman L. A. Philips
G. M. Jifield J. M. Domallen
J. S. Hastings Charles Hastings
John Palmer Stephen Reed
Silas B. Buck Thomas Hastings
W. A. Hall Francis Houghton
S. J. Frost Thomas Dana
Moses Clarke Isaac F. Jones
O. H. P. Green John Taylor
Henry Whitney, Jr. George L. Mitchell
Joseph Magoon J. H. Leighton
S. B. Rindge Rev. A. H. Spaulding
Rev. J. S. Bennett Elijah Spare, Jr.

Voted: Officers to be a President, three Vice Presidents, a Secretary, a Treasurer, and twelve Trustees.

President Rev. Frederic W. Holland
Vice Presidents: George Stevens
  Jesse Hall
  John Taylor
Secretary: Ezra Ripley
Trustees:  
Samuel Slocumb Silas B. Buck
Lewis Hall W. Wyman
N. S. Cate E. Ripley
Anson Hooker H. N. Hovey
L. Marrett J. S. Ladd
Thomas Hastings George M. Jifield