When you talk about business impact and philanthropic influence in Bridgeport, David Carson’s legacy is to be admired with the likes of P.T. Barnum, industrialist
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When you talk about business impact and philanthropic influence in Bridgeport, David Carson’s legacy is to be admired with the likes of P.T. Barnum, industrialist
Read moreJohn Merchant was a blast to be around. Thoughtful, engaging, funny, self-deprecating, complemented by unrestrained laughter. He had a generosity for walking you through Bridgeport
Read moreDavid Ellis Adams Carson knows what it’s like to stare down financial adversity and come out stronger while others withered away. Immigrant, trained actuary and
Read moreWe salute veterans this week. OIB has a couple of extraordinary vets with local ties to highlight starting with David Ellis Adams Carson, retired chief
Read morePeople’s United Bank is now a shell of its former self. The acorn that surged into a mighty oak sits on the chopping block poised
Read moreThe texts and emails are flooding into OIB. Has People’s United Bank, on the verge of a takeover by M&T Bank, dumped the iconic time
Read moreNo one can fill Bill Evans’ shoes, literally and figuratively. For decades he had his own cubicle inside People’s Bank. Enter the main entrance on
Read moreIt began in 1842 as Bridgeport Savings Bank in the Downtown store of iron merchants George and Sherwood Sterling on Water Street. On Christmas Eve
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