Interview of Ray Wolfe of the Farmers Trust Co. by Blair Williams on December 17, 2014. The interview focuses on the Farmers Trust Co. in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, innovations in the banking industry including branch banking, drive-thru banking, and consolidation, as well as Wolfe's life in Carlisle.
Ray L. Wolfe was a well-known banking executive and President of the Farmer’s Trust Company born in 1934 in just south of Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Wolfe grew up on a farm with his family, with his childhood mostly consisting of working on his family farm and other farms working picking apples, berries and peaches. Wolfe graduated high school in Boiling Springs and immediately started to work in Farmer’s Trust Bank where he worked his way up to a clerk position.