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National Bank Notes > North Dakota

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Page, First NB, 6463
Fr. 624 $10 1902PB
Grade: PMG Ch. VF 35 EPQ    

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Page is located in Cass County and it has a single national bank that was chartered in October 1902, issuing 5,699 large size sheets before it turned to small size, liquidating on July 1, 1932. This beauty is new to the census, bringing the total to five large size notes reported. Great color and paper quality as well as wonderful blue signatures of W.J. Morrish, Vice President and Melvin N. Mallory, Cashier. 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. 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.

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