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Arkansas City,KS - Cowley County - March 1889 - Sherburne, J.H., Checks :

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money Start Price:50.00 USD Estimated At:100.00 - 200.00 USD
Arkansas City,KS - Cowley County - March 1889 - Sherburne, J.H., Checks :
Lot of two checks. The fist one (check no. 2768) reads Pay to the order of Lombard Mortgage & Co. for Forty Two Dollars and forty cents. The second check (no. 2764) reads Pay to the order of Johnson Luam and Trust Co. for Twenty Seven Dollars and eight cents. They both appear to have been signed by J.H. Sherburne. Both stamped on the reverse and front in purple "PAID". Each check has two vignettes, one of seven horses running under lightning, and the other of the head of a cow. Both also have a cancelation cut-out. J.H. Sherburne was a licensed U.S. Trader. He traded horses and Indian ponies with the Native Americans under the Pona and Otoe agencies, Indian Territory. He was also involved with the establishment of the First National Bank in 1916, where he later became president.