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National Bank Notes > North Dakota

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Bowbells, First NB, 7116
Fr. 1801-2 $10 1929T2
Grade: PMG VF 25 Net    

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This bank was a more prolific issuer of small size notes than large size issuing roughly 837 sheets of $10 and $20 Type 1s and Type 2s. There are currently 11 small notes reported with the addition of this note, the only known Type 2. Signed by Alexander Clyde Wiper, President and Henry Morris Westrumm, Cashier. PMG notes: pinholes. Bowbells, located about 12 miles south of the Canadian border, is the county seat of Burke County. The population was 336 at the 2010 census; a peak population of 806 was recorded in 1950. The city of Bowbells was founded in 1896 along the main line of the Soo Line Railroad and incorporated in 1906. The city was named by railroad officials after the famed Bow bells at St. Mary-le-Bow in London, England The post office was established January 29, 1898 with John Lesh as Postmaster. Bowbells was named the county seat when Burke County organized in 1910, and it became a two-railroad town in 1913 with the arrival of the Great Northern Railroad. Alexander C. Wiper, was born near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, March 2, 1863. In 1903 he became a resident of Bowbells in which he opened the First National Bank, serving as its president. In 1905, he established the Citizens State Bank at Ryder, of which he was president for some time, and in 1907, he organized the First State Bank of Lignite, Burke county, of which he was also the president. In 1914 he promoted the Farmers & Merchants Bank at Colgan, of which he was president and in the same year he established the First State Bank at Northgate. He was an extensive landowner and had fifty-two farms in Ward and Burke counties.

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