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National Bank Notes > North Dakota

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Wahpeton, Citizens NB, 4552
Fr. 1801-2 $10 1929T2
Grade: PMG VF 30    

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There were only 642 $10 Type 2s printed and there are no others known. That's quite a trick with 48 notes reported on the bank. Signing officers were Orrin A. Leach, President and Simon Henry Murray, Cashier. Purchased from a Hickman-Oakes auction. Orin A. Leach was born in Cambridge, VT, April 21, 1867. Young Leach was educated at the Eastman Business College, Poughkeepsie, N.Y. He left Vermont in November, 1889, for the new state of North Dakota and he soon found employment in Fargo in the mercantile house of T. E. Yerxa. After two years in Fargo, he moved to Argusville, N.D., and for the next ve years was a general merchant there. In 1896 he formed the rm of Leach & Gamble and they commenced a wholesale grocery and fruit business in Wahpeton. Mr. Leach served as alderman of Wahpeton from 1900 to 1904. Wahpeton is on the Red River of the North, near the Minnesota border. It is the county seat of Richland County and had a population of 7,766 at the 2010 census. Wahpeton was founded in 1869; the first settler was Morgan T. Rich. When other settlers arrived, they formed a tiny community and named it Richville, commemorating both its founder and the fertile quality of the soil. In 1871, a post office was opened. At the same time, the town's name was changed to Chahinkapa, an Indian name meaning "the end of the woods." Two years later, the county was organized and called Chahinkapa County. Later that year the county was renamed Richland County and the town of Chahinkapa renamed Wahpeton, an adaptation of the Dakota name of the local population of Dakota Indians, the Wakhpetonwan. Positioned next to the Red River in the city of Wahpeton is "Wahpper", the World's Largest Catfish. Measuring in at 40 feet in length, 12 feet tall, and 5,000 pounds, "Wahpper" was constructed to call attention to the excellent fishing in the Red River. Some even call Wahpeton "The Catfish Capital of the North". The local Bois de Sioux Golf Course is the only golf course in the United States with half the course is in one state and half in another.

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