Fidelity Trust Company

It was founded in 1866 by financier Clarence H. Clark (1833–1906) and several partners as the Fidelity Insurance, Trust, & Safe Deposit Company with initial capital of $250,000.

Besides selling insurance and transacting trust business, the company was the second U.S. bank to offer safe deposit services.

[1] In the early years of the 20th century, Fidelity underwrote International Mercantile Marine, the parent company of the White Star Line.

Called the Fidelity-Philadelphia Trust Company Building, it is today listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

In 1985, the headquarters moved to 14 Great Valley Parkway in Malvern, Pennsylvania, and in 1990, back to the original location at Broad and Walnut Streets in Philadelphia.

An 1866 advertisement for the Fidelity Insurance, Trust, & Safe Deposit Company in the Evening Telegraph , a Philadelphia newspaper.
1891 drawing of the company's building on Chestnut Street
1928 was the Fidelity-Philadelphia Trust Company the trustee of shares from the Alex. Wolfington's Son, Inc.