MILMO GROUP | HISTORY


1800’s
1845 - Patricio Milmo O’ Dowd left Ireland to come to America in pursuit of fortune.

1848 -
He established the first banking agency in the north of Mexico under the name Casa Milmo with
branch offices in Matamoros, Eagle Pass, Laredo, Texas and later Torreon.

1861 - Patricio Milmo married Miss Pudenciana Vidaurri daughter of General Santiago Vidaurri and Dona Juana Vidaurri, descendants of Vasquez Borrego, one of the founders of Laredo, Texas.

1862 -
Patricio Milmo expanded his businesses to cotton, mining, transportation, steel production, cattle and sheep raising. He acquired several ranches and shares in the furniture factory “La industrial” and in the soap factory “La Esperanza” of Villa
Lerdo. Also, he gained a partial interest
in the National Railway to transport his coal and became “coal partner” in La fundador steel company.

1863 - Patricio Milmo opened the Milmo Bank of Monterrey in Monterrey, Mexico.

1882 - Patricio Milmo and Daniel Milmo purchased the land for the establishment of a new bank, “Milmo National Bank of Laredo”, and received the federal bank charter from the US government in July of same year.