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National Bank Notes > North Dakota

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Scranton, First NB, 10405
Fr. 630 $10 1902PB
Grade: PMG VF 20    

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Scranton is not always in Pennsylvania. This town chartered its national bank in June 1913. They issued 2,774 sheets of 1902 Blue Seals and until now there was only one large note reported. Small size notes were issued until the bank liquidated April 24, 1931. This evenly circulated note is new to the census. The stamped signatures of Tollak Finsness, President and Robert J. List, Cashier are tough to read unless you know them. Robert J. List, of Scranton was born at Cooperstown, Penn., June 25, 1882. He taught school for ve years, and acted as principal of the Clintonville, Penn., public schools for three years. In 1907 he came west to Dickinson where he accepted a position with the Merchants National Bank of that city. In September, 1907, he was appointed cashier of the Grand River State Bank in Scranton. Tollak Finsness was born in Norway. January 24. 1869. Mr. Finsness left Norway in 1888 and came direct to St. Paul, and was afterwards a resident of northern Minnesota for fifteen years. For several years prior to settling in Scranton Mr. Finsness was a commercial traveller for a large eastern firm. When the area was opened for homesteads he was among the first to seek a location and was one of the organizers of the town of Scranton. Scranton is located in Bowman County; the population was 281 at the 2010 census. Scranton was founded in 1907 along the Milwaukee Road transcontinental rail line known as the Pacific Extension. It was named after Scranton, Pennsylvania because, like that city, it was located within a region of coal mining. The post office was established October 3, 1907 with Alice Radebaugh as Postmaster. Scranton incorporated as a village in 1909, and became a city in 1937 with a peak population of 416 in 1980. Warren Christopher, chief American negotiator during the Iranian hostage crisis of 1979-1981, was born here in 1925.

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