About STAR Financial Group
STAR Financial Group, Inc. is the parent company of STAR Financial Bank, an Indiana-based community bank known for its culture of delivering quality service, personalized banking solutions and innovative use of technology. In addition, two wholly owned subsidiaries, STAR Wealth Management and STAR Insurance Agency, offer licensed professional services in financial planning, trust and asset management, and insurance. STAR Financial Group has grown to $1.86 billion in assets with 47 locations in central and northeast Indiana. In 1943, a small group of individuals led by two families - the Marcuccillis and the Wrights - were taking steps that would forever change their fortunes and those of their successors. Selah G. Wright, and Ralph and Tom Marcuccilli, in partnership with a small group of businessmen, bought their first bank - the Upland Branch of the Citizens State Bank of Fairmount located in Upland, Indiana, for $28,000. This was the beginning of the financial organization that became STAR Financial Bank. The 1950s and 1960s were decades of planned expansion into community banking. Beginning in 1952 with the purchase of The Gaston Banking Company of Gaston, Indiana, over the next 15 years, seven more Indiana community banks were purchased. The goal of the founding partners was to bring about change in the banking laws that would permit multiple bank ownership and allow them to bring centralized control to the community banks. Hindered by current Indiana banking laws, the group formed the Northern Indiana Financial Service Corporation (NIFSCO) in 1966. NIFSCO was the beginning of the data processing company that later became STAR Financial Systems, which later merged into the bank charter we have today. In the 1970s, Tom Marcuccilli's sons, Jim and Tom, joined NIFSCO to help the company further develop its core financial services. At the same time Bob Wright's son, Tom, joined the Bank of Henry County in Shirley, Indiana, to begin his banking career. D