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National Bank Notes > North Dakota

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Kenmare, NB, 6555
Fr. 1802-1 $20 1929T1
Grade: PMG VF 25    

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This is not yet part of the census, bringing the total known to six small notes. It's part of the 398 Type 1 sheets printed before the bank was placed into receivership on December 8, 1933. The bank used the title First-Kenmare National Bank beginning on June 9, 1931. Printed signatures of John Norman Fox, President and Emery William Swanson, Cashier. Kenmare is located in Ward County in the Minot metro area. The population was 1,096 at the 2010 census with a peak of 1,712 in 1950. The first known settler in the vicinity was a Mr. Cartwright, who opened the first mine in the community in 1880. In 1891, Augustines Rouses began prospecting for coal in the area. As one of the first settlers, he served as postmaster for the town (then known as Lignite for the coal mines) until this death in a gunfight in 1896. The town then went nameless, until Kenmare was established in 1897. The community was named by the wife of a Soo Line Railroad official for Kenmare, Ireland (meaning "forever more"). The Kenmare post office was established April 30, 1897 with John H. Clapper as Postmaster. The village was platted in May 1899, and incorporated in December 1901.

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