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What happened to First Federal Savings and Loan Association?
First Federal Savings and Loan Association in Ashtabula, OH was merged into First Federal of Western Pennsylvania of Sharon, PA with federal assistance on Jan 31, 1986. After 4 more changes of hands, what was First Federal Savings and Loan Association is today part of The Huntington National Bank (Columbus, OH).
The chain, step by step
From the day it opened to the bank at the end of the chain today. Each step is one entry in the FDIC's record.
- 1935First Federal Savings and Loan Association opens in Ashtabula, OH
- Jan 31, 1986ASSISTED MERGERFirst Federal Savings and Loan Association was merged into First Federal of Western Pennsylvania of Sharon, PA with federal assistance.FDIC certificate 29406 ends; its business continues under certificate 29433.
- Sep 8, 1997MERGEDFirst Federal of Western Pennsylvania (by then renamed First Western Bank, F.S.B.) of Sharon, PA merged into First Western Bank, National Association of New Castle, PA.FDIC certificate 29433 ends; its business continues under certificate 7930.
- Aug 7, 1999MERGEDFirst Western Bank, National Association of New Castle, PA merged into Sky Bank of Salineville, OH.FDIC certificate 7930 ends; its business continues under certificate 14641.
- Dec 31, 2001MERGEDSky Bank of Salineville, OH merged into Sky Bank-Ohio Bank Region of Salineville, OH.FDIC certificate 14641 ends; its business continues under certificate 5982.
- Sep 21, 2007MERGEDSky Bank-Ohio Bank Region (by then renamed Sky Bank) of Salineville, OH merged into The Huntington National Bank of Columbus, OH.FDIC certificate 5982 ends; its business continues under certificate 6560.
- TodayOPEN
The Huntington National BankMain office Columbus, OH · FDIC certificate 6560 · 1,452 offices in 21 states on June 30, 2026Every The Huntington National Bank office → Website on file with the FDIC: www.huntington.com
If you still have something from First Federal Savings and Loan Association
A lien that was never released
If a paid-off mortgage, home-equity line or car loan still shows First Federal Savings and Loan Association as lienholder, start with The Huntington National Bank. In a merger the surviving bank takes over the other bank's loans, so it is the bank to ask for a recordable lien release; if the loan was sold along the way, it can tell you to whom.
First Federal Savings and Loan Association was merged with federal assistance on Jan 31, 1986. The FDIC's limit on lien releases is for mergers without government assistance, so FDIC Resolution Inquiries (888-206-4662, 8am–4pm Central, weekdays) can tell you whether it holds anything for this bank.
Record the release with the same county office that recorded the original mortgage or deed of trust.
An old account, passbook or CD
Ask The Huntington National Bank to search for the account under the name First Federal Savings and Loan Association. A passbook or certificate shows an account existed. It doesn't show the money is still there, and the OCC notes that federal rules require banks to keep most account records for five years.
Accounts nobody touches are eventually turned over to a state. The OCC puts the usual wait at three to five years with no activity, set by each state's law. Search the unclaimed-property program of the state of the owner's last known address on the bank's records, and any other state they lived in. It is free to search and to claim through a state's own site, and MissingMoney.com, an official site of the state administrators' association, searches most states at once.
A safe deposit box
Ask The Huntington National Bank which branch now holds boxes from the First Federal Savings and Loan Association office you used. The OCC says a box with no activity for three to five years (the period is set by state statute) is likely treated as dormant, and its contents may be turned over to the state's unclaimed-property program.
Box contents are not covered by FDIC insurance.
Not sure this is your bank?
Many banks shared a name. Match the city and the years above against your paperwork, or search again with the town.
Credit unions were never FDIC-insured and are not in this record; the NCUA credit union lookup covers those. Banks that closed before about 1970 are not in the FDIC's list either.
One caution: banks also sell single branches. If the office you used was sold to a different bank along the way, the account went with the branch, not with this chain.
This page is drawn from FDIC records and federal guidance. It is not legal advice, and BankBranches is not a bank or a government office. More detail: lien releases · old passbooks and CDs · safe deposit boxes · unclaimed money.
Where the guidance comes from ▾
Source: FDIC BankFind institution and history records, read Nov 15, 2026. The FDIC's list covers banks that ended in about 1970 or later. Look up certificate 29406 in the FDIC BankFind Suite to see the government's own entry. Corrections: me@byclaude.net.