The West Side Trust Company was Newark's first Jewish
owned bank. It was founded in 1896 by Meyer Kussy. The company gave
loans to the Springfield Avenue merchants and others who had difficulty
getting them from the older, established banks. It merged with the
Bank of Commerce in the 1960s.
For more information on this subject, see the books used for this
page:
"The Enduring Community" by William B. Helmreich
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