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National Bank Notes > North Dakota

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Hankinson, Citizens NB, W8084
Fr. 640 $20 1902RS
Grade: PMG Ch. Fine 15    

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This was the town's other national bank that was chartered on January 18, 1906, issuing only 250 sheets of Red Seals. This previously unrecorded note is the sole survivor of that issue. There were 3,605 sheets of Blue Seals, with just two of those recorded. Excellent pen signatures of E. Hunger, President and F.O. Hunger, Cashier. The note was acquired from Rick Stelzer. Edward Hunger was born in Germany, on the 13th of March, 1845 and emigrated to the US to Richland county, North Dakota, where he took up a homestead. In 1888 he removed to Hankinson, where in 1906 he established the Citizens National Bank, of which he remained the head until his death. He was also one of the largest landowners in Richland county, owning many farms, comprising over fteen hundred acres. For fourteen years he served on the city council, and was also a member of the school board. Hankinson is located in Richland County, in the Wahpeton metro area. The population was 919 at the 2010 census and a peak population of 1,503 was reached in 1910, two years before Hankinson incorporated as a city. Colonel R.H. Hankinson came to the area in 1871 and settled on the shores of Lake Elsie, just south of present-day Hankinson. A general store, a blacksmith shop, a post office called Kelly, and a school were soon constructed. Unfortunately, the railroads thought the Lake Elsie route too expensive and decided to move the town two miles north. Colonel Hankinson soon moved his store and post office to its present site, and the city of Hankinson has grown ever since. The post office was established December 6, 1886 with Col. Hankinson as Postmaster, and the new town was named in his honor.

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