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National Bank Notes > North Dakota

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Edgeley, First NB, 7914
Fr. 651 $20 1902PB
Grade: PMG VF 25    

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This La Moure County bank was organized on August 29, 1905 and issued 7,759 sheets before going into receivership on January 31, 1927. This is a lovely note with excellent black stamped signatures of G. Bulmer, President and Arthur James Kesler, Cashier. Arthur J. Kesler, cashier of the First National Bank of Edgeley, was born in Fenton, Michigan, April 12, 1872. Mr. Kesler was educated in the University of Dakota at Vermillion, South Dakota, and at the Red River Valley University at Wahpeton, North Dakota. After completing his studies he assisted his father in his store until July 1903, when he was offered and accepted the position of cashier in the State Bank of Edgeley. Two years later the bank was reorganized as the First National Bank and Mr. Kesler remained as cashier of the institution. In 1916, he became city treasurer of Edgeley. Edgeley is located in La Moure County; the population was 563 at the 2010 census. Edgeley was founded in 1886 replacing the pioneer settlement of Saint George. The new townsite was platted by Richard Sykes, a landowner who named it after Edgeley Park, England, where he was born. Richard Sykes founded and named five North Dakota towns. He named Sykeston, after himself; Bowdon, after his hometown in England; Edgeley, after the place of his birth in England; Chaseley, after the English home of an old friend; and Alfred, because it was a good English name. Edgeley became the terminus of the Milwaukee Road Railroad and the Midland Continental Railroad. The post office was established November 16, 1886 with John B. Kesler as Postmaster. The village, which incorporated in 1911, reached a peak population of 1,040 in the 1964 special census. In the summer of 2003, North Dakota s first wind farms were built just west of Edgeley.

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