Monday, May 23, 2011

First State Bank Letter, 1904

FirstStateBankletter
(Click on image to enlarge)

Another random pointless thing bought on eBay. I'm glad the signer's name appears on the letterhead, because I would never have deciphered "Cavender" from that mess. I believe he was John C. Cavender, who shows up in the 1920 Census as a bank cashier in Hobart. I wonder why the 1910 census-taker missed him.

The town the addressees lived in was probably Ross Station, which you can see on the 1874 Plat Map in the northwest corner of Ross Township, well northwest of Merrillville.

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