This book chronicles the dynamic life span of an important Rochester institution, a mutual savings bank, that by definition, was owned by its depositors and operated for their benefit. At one time in the U.S., there were more than 4,000 savings banks most having started in the 1800s. By 1990, many of these had dissolved, since they had achieved what they were created to do, and eventually fell prey to the changing and frequently unstable economic times. It also chronicles the contribution of some of the Presidents and Trustees to the Rochester community.

“Long-time RSB trustee Jim Duffus has gathered the lineage of RSB’s ‘movers and shakers’ in this authoritative book. Readers will enjoy a unique view of an interesting part of Rochester’s history through his tireless efforts.” 
Bruce B. Bates 
Senior Vice President, Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC 
and a celebrated community leader

“The author writes with deep feeling for the great institution and the people who were the Rochester Savings Bank. He dramatizes its life and death and the 152 years in between.” 
David T. Kearns 
Former CEO of Xerox Corporation and 
Deputy Secretary of the U. S. Department of Education