BlockFlagg Township (part 2 of 2)
Part 2 of 2 of the account of this township in Portrait and Biographical Album of Ogle County, Illinois, Containing Full Page Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens of the County, published 1886. 115 words, covering 17 settlements. Source changes inside the text are labelled at the exact paragraph where the next book begins.
Parts
2 pagesThe source prints this as one continuous account. It is split here so no single page grows too heavy to load; the text runs straight on across the parts and nothing is omitted.
- Part 1
- Part 2
The chapter
115 wordsReproduced complete and unedited from Portrait and Biographical Album of Ogle County, Illinois, Containing Full Page Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens of the County, published 1886. The text is machine-read from scans, so expect recognition errors: misspelled names, dropped words, and stray characters. Nothing has been corrected, because correcting a proper name invents one. The headings below are the books' own; source changes are labelled in place.
The Rochelle National Bank is the outgrowth of the old banking house of E. T. Hunt & Co., which was succeeded by W. E. Lewis and later by J. M. Mallery. While the latter was engaged in the business a National bank was organized, under the name af the Rochelle National Bank, with I. M. Mallery as President, and J. T. Miller, Cashier. The charter of the bank bears date Dec. 9, 1872. The Rochelle National Bank has the confidence of the people in a remarkable degree and has been very successful. The capital stock remains at $50,000, but it has accumulated a surplus of $20,000. Its earnings are quite large and its deposits average
Provenance
Text from Portrait and Biographical Album of Ogle County, Illinois, Containing Full Page Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens of the County, published 1886, in the public domain in the United States and digitised by the Internet Archive. The settlements listed against this township are matched by point-in-polygon test of each Geographic Names Information System coordinate against the Census Bureau's county subdivision boundary, not by name.