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National Bank Notes > Illinois

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Freeport, First NB, 2875
Fr. 650 $20 1902ND
Grade: Ch. CU    

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This note is at least tied for the finest known on this bank, there are two UNCs listed. Dark black signatures of A.B. Bidwell, President and J.M. Clark, Cashier. Freeport takes its name in homage to an early settler, William Tutty Baker, who ran a free ferry across the Pecatonica River in the 1830s. In 1858 it was the site of the most significant of the Lincoln-Douglas debates, where Douglas answers to questions on slavery alienated the south and split the Democratic party, aiding Lincoln s victory.

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