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National Bank Notes > North Dakota

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Hatton, Farmers & Merchants NB, 7905
Fr. 1801-1 $10 1929T1
Grade: PMG Ch. UNC 63 Net    

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This 'new to the census' note is one of 11 small notes reported from the second national bank in town which was chartered in September 1905. This $10 is a nice UNC with a pinhead size rust mark on the face. This collection has no large size example. Printed officer signatures of O. Eielson, President and H.M. Nash, Cashier. PMG notes: minor rust. Hatton is located in Traill County; the population was 777 at the 2010 census. The community was established in 1881 in anticipation of the arrival of the Great Northern Railroad, which reached here in July 1884. The post office was established December 19, 1881 with Lawrence O. Fisk as Postmaster, who requested the name Garfield for the recently martyred President. This name was rejected due to duplication, and instead named for Frank Hatton (1846-1894), Assistant as Postmaster General at the time and later the Editor of the Washington Post. Mr. Hatton named several post offices in the country for himself, this being one of five that still exist; he is considered to be the inventor of special delivery service. The village incorporated in 1885, and it became a city in 1901; a peak population of 991 was reached in 1950. Hatton calls itself "The City of Action." Hatton is the birthplace of 20th century Arctic explorer and pilot Carl Ben Eielson, born here in 1897. Eielson's flying skills made him a legend in his own time, and his career pinnacle came when he piloted the explorer Sir George Hubert Wilkins on an epic 2200-mile flight over the Arctic Ocean from Point Barrow, Alaska, to Spitsbergen in arctic Norway in 1928. He was the first pilot to land on floating ice and the first to fly airmail in Alaska. He also was the first to fly an airplane in Antarctica, making initial flights there in 1928.

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