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National Bank Notes > North Dakota

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Hunter, First NB, 6985 #7
Fr. 1802-1 $20 1929T1
Grade: PMG VF 20    

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This bank issued 602 sheets of small size notes and this note, new to the census, is one of three known. This problem free and evenly circulated note brought $825 twelve years ago. Printed signatures of bank officers O.W. Parkhurst, President and A.M. Parkhurst, Cashier. Hunter is a city in Cass County; the population was 261 at the 2010 census. This Northern Pacific Railroad (later Great Northern Railroad) townsite was founded in 1880 and named for John C. Hunter, a major landowner in the area. The Delno post office, located two miles to the north, moved here June 15, 1881 with Josiah H. Gale as Postmaster, although postmarks with the Hunter name are known as early as April 7,1881. The village, which incorporated in 1885, reached a peak population of 446 in 1960. David H. Houston was a local farmer who was a poet and inventor on the side. He invented the roll-type film process, named it Kodak, and sold the rights to George Eastman of Rochester, New York

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