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National Bank Notes > North Dakota

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Langdon, Cavalier County NB, W9075
Fr. 644 $20 1902DB
Grade: PMG VF 20    

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This was the second bank chartered in town. It was organized on January 28, 1908 and issued 5,411 sheets of large size notes before it went into receivership on October 29, 1923. This note is new to the census and is only the fifth note reported. A nice, evenly circulated note with pen signatures of William F. Winter, President and John Sheehan, Cashier. William F. Winter, was vice president of the First National Bank of Langdon, and born in Kingston, Ontario, September 18, 1857. He went to St. Paul, MN, in 1872, and was connected with a wholesale dry-goods house. He went to North Dakota in 1880 and resided in Pembina a short time and was employed as clerk in a mercantile establishment. He went to Olga, Cavalier county, in the fall of 1883, and there engaged in the real estate and loan business, and remained there until 1887, when he removed to Langdon. He served as county treasurer in 1889 and 1890 in Cavalier county; in company with P. McHugh and W. J. Mooney, he organized the Cavalier County Bank, in 1887, and was cashier of the institution from 1891-1893, until it was organized as the First National Bank, and remained cashier. He was also engaged in the real estate and loan business, later becoming involved wtih the Cavalier County National Bank. Langdon, the county seat of Cavalier County, was named for Robert B. Langdon, an official for the Great Northern Railroad. The population was 1,878 at the 2010 census. The town was designated as the county seat almost before settlement began in 1884. The Great Northern Railroad founded the town as a terminus station, and the nearby McHugh post office moved here June 25, 1886 with Charles Crawford as Postmaster. The village, which incorporated in 1888, has grown consistently to a peak population of 2,335 in 1980. The father of Langdon is often considered to be pioneer merchant Edward James Fox (1857-1931). Thomas John Clifford, longtime President of the University of North Dakota, was born here in 1921. Langdon is known as "The Western Gateway to the Rendezvous Region". Langdon, along with Cavalier, Pembina and Walhalla, form the area of the state known as the Rendezvous region. In the 19th century, these four cities compromised the hub of trading. Native Americans and fur trappers and traders met at this unique area to sell and trade supplies. These annual meetings eventually spurred the name Rendezvous.

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