1st Source
financial services company
1st Source Corporation is a financial services company headquartered in South Bend, Indiana. It operates 1st Source Bank, a bank with 81 branches in Indiana and Michigan. The bank's Specialty Finance Group provides financing for aircraft, trucks, and construction equipment. 1st Source Insurance provides insurance products and services.
History
The company was founded in 1863 as the First National Bank of South Bend.
In the early 1930s, the company merged with First National and Union Trust to form First Bank and Trust Company.
Under the leadership of Ernest M. Morris, the bank survived the Great Depression and in 1935 it opened its first branch.
In 1946, the bank opened its second branch.
By the end of the 1950s, it was the seventh largest bank in Indiana.
In 1981, the bank changed its name to 1st Source Bank.
“1st Source” enters the record as financial services company. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Source, financial and services can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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Chronology, provenance and viewpoint should be read together before a broad social or political interpretation is accepted. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 5, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4596612. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1863, 1935, 1946 and 1981.
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