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National Bank Notes > North Dakota

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Napoleon, First NB, 11378
Fr. 1800-1 $5 1929T1
Grade: PMG VF 30    

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This Logan County bank was chartered in June 1919 but it did not issue any notes until small size, then they issued 1,084 sheets. This note is new to the nine previously reported. A lovely $5 with excellent paper quality. Printed officer signatures of H.C. Young, President and Fred B. Heath, Cashier. Judge N.C. Young was born January 28, 1862, in Mount Pleasant, IA. Judge Young established a home at Bathgate, ND, where he entered the practice of law. In November 1898 he was elected supreme court judge. Following his elevation to the bench he moved his family to Fargo. He also served as state s attorney of Pembina county from 1891 until 1895. Aside from his professional connections he had important banking interests in the western part of the state, being president of one bank and vice president of two others. After resigning from the supreme bench, Judge Young was appointed president of the board of regents of the North Dakota State University and so continued until 1914. Napoleon is the county seat of Logan County; the population was 792 at the 2010 census. The city of Napoleon was founded in 1884, and named after Napoleon Goodsill, a pioneer storekeeper and president of the townsite board. The story and a half structure he built marked the beginning of settlement in Logan County. In 1885 the first county courthouse was built in Napoleon; it also served as a post office, a hotel, a newpaper office, and a private residence. In 1886, George A. Bryant established the Napoleon Homestead, a newspaper business that continues to publish news and events to this day. The Soo Line Railroad reached Napoleon in 1898. Napoleon became the county seat before the first settlers arrived, and survived several challenges for that honor, including an 1899 challenge from King that was settled through judicial action. Napoleon incorporated as a village in 1914, and became a city in 1947 with John Mitzel mayor; the population reached a peak of 1,088 in 1980. Ben Meier, longtime North Dakota Secretary of State, was born here in 1918.

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