Collection Summary
Information for Researchers
Administrative Information
Corporate History
Scope and Content
Collection Summary
Collection Title: Hibernia Bank Records,
Date (inclusive): 1859-1971
Collection Number: BANC MSS 89/220 c
Collector:
Hibernia Bank
Extent:
Number of containers: 3 boxes, 5 cartons, 68 volumes
Linear feet: 20
Repository: The
Bancroft Library
Berkeley, California 94720-6000
Physical Location: For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.
Abstract: Consists primarily of organizational records, including bylaws and Board of Directors' meeting minutes, 1862-1950 (v.4- 49).
A few cash receipt books, 1859-1861, mortgage tax receipt books and indexes from the 1860s and 1870s, and a sampling of passbooks
and other records of depositor receipts, judgments and balance statements comprise the surviving records of day-to-day transactions.
Records relating to court cases involving the bank pertain primarily to matters of earnings, dividends, gift tax, and bank
reorganization, as evidenced in the files of Attorney, Garrett McEnerney. Documentation of the internal operations of the
bank is limited to a very few records of employee salaries and expenses for assorted social events. Also includes Richard
M. Tobin and other Tobin family correspondence, 1914- 1917, condolences and other papers relating to the death of Joseph Sadoc
Tobin, 1918-1920; and 11 volumes of scrapbooks, 1908-1919, containing newspaper clippings relating to the history and development
of banking in San Francisco.
Languages Represented:
English
Information for Researchers
Access
Collection is open for research.
Publication Rights
Copyright has not been assigned to The Bancroft Library. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts
must be submitted in writing to the Head of Public Services. Permission for publication is given on behalf of The Bancroft
Library as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which
must also be obtained by the reader.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Hibernia Bank Records, BANC MSS 89/220 c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Material Cataloged Separately
- Atlases, maps, and San Francisco block books transferred to Map Room.
Administrative Information
Acquisition Information
The Hibernia Bank Records were given to The Bancroft Library by Security Pacific National Bank on September 20, 1989.
Corporate History
The Hibernia Savings and Loan Society was founded in San Francisco in 1859 by John Sullivan. It played a major role in financing
San Francisco's growth in the Victorian era, and by 1900 was the largest bank in the entire state of California. Hibernia
began as a membership corporation providing only savings bank services, but in 1946 became a stockholding corporation in order
to provide commercial banking and trust services.
In 1988, the Hibernia Bank was purchased by Security Pacific of Los Angeles and absorbed into their operations.
Scope and Content
The Hibernia Bank Records, 1859-1971, consist primarily of organizational papers, including bylaws and minutes of Board of
Directors meetings for the years 1862 to 1950. Related materials include Voting Trust Agreements from 1947-1948, along with
correspondence, chiefly of the Tobin family. The cumulative and day-to-day transactional banking records are found in a few
surviving cash books and accounts of mortgage tax receipts from the early years of the bank's operation, along with a sampling
of passbooks and other books of depositor receipts, judgments, and balance statements.
Legal records for Hibernia Bank, 1913-1960, principally deal with matters of earnings, dividends, gift tax, bank reorganization,
and the applied aspects of banking law as evidenced in the files of Garrett McEnerney. Also prominently featured are case
proceedings of Hibernia Savings and Loan Society litigation. Documentation of the internal operations of the bank, although
spanning the years 1871 to 1956, is limited to a very few records pertaining to employee salaries and expenses for assorted
social events.
Finally, the collection contains Papers of the Tobin Family, including correspondence, along with condolences and other materials
concerning the deaths of several influential Tobin family members. In addition, there are a number of scrapbooks containing
newspapers clippings relating to the history and development of banking in San Francisco, principally during the years 1908-1918.