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National Bank Notes > Illinois

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Downers Grove, First NB, 9725
Fr. 627 $10 1902ND
Grade: VF/XF    

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This bank has long been a desirable one and there are only eight large notes recorded. Excellent pen signatures on this example, but there is a '44' in ink in the field. Downers Grove is located in DuPage County. Downers Grove was founded in 1832 by Pierce Downer, a religious evangelist from Wampsville, New York. The town was incorporated in March 1873. Its somewhat unusual spelling ("Apostrophe-free since 1873") remains a minor historical mystery.

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