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National Bank Notes > North Dakota

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Page, First NB, 6463
Fr. 1801-1 $10 1929T1
Grade: PMG VF 30    

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There were 394 sheets of small size issued before the bank was liquidated on July 1, 1932. There are eight small notes reported in the census. This note is nice looking and evenly circulated. Printed officer signatures of Louis Benjamin Hanna, President and former Governor or North Dakota, and Melvin N. Mallory, Cashier. Louis B. Hanna was born August 9, 1861 in New Brighton, PA. He received a law degree from Fargo College in 1916 and was president of the First National Bank of Fargo and Page North Dakota and director of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Dec 1914 - Jan 1921. In addition, Hanna was officer and director of the Benson Timber Co. of Chatskanie, Ore., Benson Lumber Co. of San Diego, Calif., and Provident Life Insurance Bismarck, North Dakota. He served as captain American Red Cross In France 1918 and was a member of the House North Dakota Legislature, State Senate and US Congress as well as serving as Governor of North Dakota, 1913-1917, He received Grand Cross of St. Olaf from the King of Norway in 1915. Melvin N. Mallory, cashier of the First National Bank of Page, was born in Plainview, Minnesota, November 10, 1877. He attended Hamline University at St. Paul, Minnesota, from which institution he was graduated with the class of 1900, winning the degree of Ph.D. In 1903 he arrived in North Dakota and engaged in the drug business, with which he was identified in Plainview, Lisbon and Hope until the spring of 1912, when he removed to Page and entered the First National Bank as assistant cashier. In the spring of 1914 he was advanced to the position of cashier. He was a stockholder in the institution as well as a member of its board of directors. Page is located in Cass County, in the Fargo metro area; the population was 232 at the 2010 census. This Great Northern Railroad station was founded in 1881 and named by Col. M. B. Morton, a major area landowner, for his brother-in-law, Egbert S. Page of Des Moines, Iowa. In the early days the site was sometimes called Page City. The post office was established March 17, 1882 with Frank Longstaff as Postmaster. The village incorporated in 1903, and reached a peak population of 482 in 1950. Louis B. Hanna, a United States Representative and 11th Governor of North Dakota, was a longtime Page merchant and banker.

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