WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - Below, Credit Union Journal offers readers a preview of the re-creation of the first deposit into a credit union in the United States.
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A broader number of photos and images from the event will be published in Credit Union Journal on Dec. 1, and a video of the historic transaction will soon be posted on cujournal.com.
The images and photos are from a re-creation sponsored by Credit Union Journal, CO-OP Financial Services and America's first credit union, St. Mary's Bank, that depicted the first day of business at St. Mary's 100 years to the day after it occurred.
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| Two of the first members of St. Mary's Cooperative Credit Association (St. Mary's Bank), left, meeting with Joseph Boivin, the first credit union manager in U.S. history, inside the original credit union office in Manchester, N.H. |
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| Members shown entering, leaving St. Mary's Cooperative Credit Association circa 1908. |
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| From left, credit union pioneers Joseph Boivin, the first manager of St. Mary's Cooperative Credit Association; Father Pierre Hevey, the parish priest who helped organize the first creit union, and Alphonse Desjardins, the Canadian credit union pioneer who helped get credit unions started in the U.S., as portrayed by period re-enactors inside America's Credit Union Museum in Manchester, N.H. on U.S. credit unions' 100th birthday. |
