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2c orange diamond RNC checks from rare Banking House of W. B. Hamilton

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2c orange diamond RNC checks from rare Banking House of W. B. Hamilton
Fifteen W. B. Hamilton checks to various people and businesses. All imprinted Ladd & Tilton of Portland. Small Greek vignette. The Ladd & Tilton Bank Building was celebrated as Portland’s finest commercial building, when bank President William S. Ladd built it in 1868. William Ladd and Charles Tilton, childhood friends from New England, began their partnership in a mercantile business in 1853, incorporating their new bank in 1859. Tilton spent much time in San Francisco where he had other business interests, and Ladd was president and active partner. Their new bank building reflected the spirit of Portland’s prosperity and development as a full-fledged city, including telegraph service to the east through San Francisco

Date: 1880City: CorvallisCounty: BentonState: OR