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National Bank Notes > North Dakota

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Dickinson, First NB, 4384
Fr. 1802-1 $20 1929T1
Grade: PMG Ch. VF 35    

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Here is a lovely example from this charter that has 48 small notes reported and few are better. The bank printed 598 of the $20 sheets. Officer signatures of Alphonso Hilliard, President and T.A. Tollefson, Cashier. Alphonso Hilliard, president of the First National Bank of Dickinson, was born May 5, 1863, at Danby, Vermont. He spent the year 1884 in Bismarck in the real estate business, and then located in banking at Dickinson. Under the able management of himself and assistants Mr. Hilliard made the First National Bank one of the strongest nancial institutions in the state. Dickinson is the county seat of Stark County in the Heart River valley. The population was 17,787 at the 2010 census. This site was named Pleasant Valley Siding in 1880, but was renamed in 1881 for Wells Stoughton Dickinson (1828-1892), a land agent and politician from Malone, New York, who had visited here 1880. (His brother, Horace L. Dickinson, lived onsite to oversee its development.) The post office was established October 6, 1881 with F. H. Longley as Postmaster. It became the county seat in 1883, incorporated as a village in 1899, and became a city in 1900. Dickinson is centrally located in southwestern North Dakota, the midpoint between Fargo, North Dakota and Billings, Montana. Due to this strategic location, and the resulting regional social and economic influence, it was known for decades by the nickname Queen City of the Prairies. Reference to this nickname was used as early as 1906.

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