Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Marine Midland Bank was a bank formerly headquartered in Buffalo with several hundred branches throughout the state of New York. Marine Midland began in 1850 in Buffalo as the Marine Trust Company with the objective of financing the new shipping trade on the Great Lakes. As the bank expanded into New York state it added the Midland to its name. In the summer of 1850, eight men gathered in Buffalo to form a new commercial bank.