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National Bank Notes > North Dakota

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New England, First NB, 9776
Fr. 1802-2 $20 1929T2
Grade: PMG VF 20 Net    

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There were only 69 Type 2 $20s printed and, believe it or not, here is one. It does have a purple stamp line to the right of the portrait. This note was acquired from August Peterson from the First National Bank of Bismarck and the First National Bank of New England. Printed officer signatures of Clarence Belden Little, President and Henry E. Schroeder, Cashier. PMG notes: ink. Clarence Belden Little was born in Merrimack county, N.H., Nov. 18, 1857. He received his academic training at Dartmouth College and took a course in law at Harvard. He came to Bismarck in 1882. In 1885 he was elected judge of probate of Burleigh county and reelected in 1887; he organized the territorial militia and he was inspector general of the citizen soldiery whereby he came to the title of Colonel. He was elected a director of the Capital National Bank, of Bismarck. Two years later he became president of that institution, until 1895, when he bought control of the First National Bank of Bismarck, and, liquidating the Capital National, merged the two. He was senator from his district from the time of the organization of the state until 1909. New England is located in Hettinger County in the southwestern corner of North Dakota. The population was 600 at the 2010 census. New England was founded in 1887, predating all other settlements in Hettinger County by many years. Many early settlers were from the New England states of Vermont and Massachusetts; they originally named the settlement Mayflower. The name changed to New England City within the first year and when the post office opened in 1894 the new Postmaster Horace W. Smith shortened the name to simply New England. The Milwaukee Road Railroad reached here in 1910, making the village the terminus of the Milwaukee Road branch line that split from the railroad's Pacific Extension in McLaughlin, South Dakota. The silhouette of the two Rainy Buttes near New England is a distinguishing symbol of the town.

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