Customer Focus

Banking for the Daughters of Bilitis

The Daughters of Bilitis, a Wells Fargo customer, established the first national organization for lesbian women, creating a community of shared experience and advocacy.

A Chinese legacy in smalltown Oregon

Merchants and Wells Fargo customers Lung On and Ing Hay owned a general store that became a center for the local Chinese community.

A mother’s pen inspires a community

Poet, civil activist, and Wells Fargo customer Eva Buckner used her pen to inspire and advocate for a more inclusive society.

A Renaissance woman: Cassie Hill

Cassie Hill not only served as an express agent for Wells Fargo in Roseville, California, from 1884 to 1908, she also served as a local agent for the Southern Pacific Railroad and...

Letters from incarceration camps

When Japanese Americans were forcibly moved into federal incarceration camps in 1942, their banker J. Elmer Morrish made it his mission to support them in any way possible.

Innovative banking solutions for the blind

Before the 1970s, many bank customers who were blind or low vision had to depend on friends and family to handle their finances — until banks began providing new options.

Banking for businesswomen in the 1700s

When women in early America needed access to credit and payment tools, they turned to the Bank of North America in Philadelphia, America’s first commercial bank, and today Wells Fargo.

A lifelong activist and Wells Fargo customer

Mifflin Wistar Gibbs lived a life of service and activism. He fought to end slavery, served as a politician for change, and became a successful African American business owner in Gold Rush...

Staying open for Santa

Julia L. Jones, a Wells Fargo agent in Mariposa, California, provided a link for her customers to the outside world — and even stayed open on Christmas Day.