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SAVINGS See also: BANKS (Fr. caisses d'epargne; Ger. Sparkassen) , institutions for the purpose of receiving small deposits of See also:money and investing them for the benefit of the depositors at See also:compound See also:interest. They originated in the latter See also:part of the 18th See also:century-a See also:period marked by a See also:great advance in the organization of provident habits in See also:general (see FRIENDLY See also:SOCIETIES). They seem, however, to have been first suggested by See also:Daniel See also:Defoe in 1697. The earliest institution of the See also:kind in See also:Europe was one established at See also:Brunswick in 1765; it was followed in 1778 by that of See also:Ham-See also:burg, which still exists, in 1786 by one at See also:Oldenburg, in 1790 by one at See also:Loire, in 1792 by that of See also:Basel, in 1794 by one at See also:Geneva, which had but a See also:short existence, and in 1796 by one at See also:Kiel in See also:Holstein. In Great See also:Britain, in 1797, See also:Jeremy See also:Bentham revived Defoe's See also:suggestion under the name of " Frugality Banks," and in 1799 the Rev. See also:Joseph See also:- SMITH
- SMITH, ADAM (1723–1790)
- SMITH, ALEXANDER (183o-1867)
- SMITH, ANDREW JACKSON (1815-1897)
- SMITH, CHARLES EMORY (1842–1908)
- SMITH, CHARLES FERGUSON (1807–1862)
- SMITH, CHARLOTTE (1749-1806)
- SMITH, COLVIN (1795—1875)
- SMITH, EDMUND KIRBY (1824-1893)
- SMITH, G
- SMITH, GEORGE (1789-1846)
- SMITH, GEORGE (184o-1876)
- SMITH, GEORGE ADAM (1856- )
- SMITH, GERRIT (1797–1874)
- SMITH, GOLDWIN (1823-191o)
- SMITH, HENRY BOYNTON (1815-1877)
- SMITH, HENRY JOHN STEPHEN (1826-1883)
- SMITH, HENRY PRESERVED (1847– )
- SMITH, JAMES (1775–1839)
- SMITH, JOHN (1579-1631)
- SMITH, JOHN RAPHAEL (1752–1812)
- SMITH, JOSEPH, JR
- SMITH, MORGAN LEWIS (1822–1874)
- SMITH, RICHARD BAIRD (1818-1861)
- SMITH, ROBERT (1689-1768)
- SMITH, SIR HENRY GEORGE WAKELYN
- SMITH, SIR THOMAS (1513-1577)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM (1813-1893)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM SIDNEY (1764-1840)
- SMITH, SYDNEY (1771-1845)
- SMITH, THOMAS SOUTHWOOD (1788-1861)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (1769-1839)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (c. 1730-1819)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (fl. 1596)
- SMITH, WILLIAM FARRAR (1824—1903)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1808—1872)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1825—1891)
- SMITH, WILLIAM ROBERTSON (1846-'894)
Smith put it in See also:action at See also:Wendover.
End of Article: SAVINGS BANKS (Fr. caisses d'epargne; Ger. Sparkassen)
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