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Carson City,NV - Ormsby County - 1861-1876 - Yerington and Kidder and H. M. Yerington Bank Checks :

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Carson City,NV - Ormsby County - 1861-1876 - Yerington and Kidder and H. M. Yerington Bank Checks :
Collection of three checks. There is little evidence that Henry Yerington and John Flint Kidder had a partnership of any kind except for these checks signed by Yerington and Kidder. And these two checks were most likely signed by an agent of the company as the Yerington signature does not match his from his personal checking accounts or letters. The first check, #124, is made out to [illegible] H. Davis & Son, area merchants, on Sept. 21, 1867 on a Carson City, Wells, Fargo, & Co. check in the amount of $87.25. This check has two 2-cent revenue stamps on the left side. The first one is a federal orange George Washington and the second is an orange on white Nevada. There is a “Paid Through” oval stamp over the signature line. The second check is # 150, made out to W. Dailey on October 28th, 1867 on a Carson City Wells, Fargo & Co. in the amount of $10.00. It also has two 2-cent canceled revenue stamps on the left side of the check.--the first is a two cent George Washington federal stamp and the second is an orange on white Nevada stamp. The check has been stamped over the signature line “Paid Through.” The third check, # 205, is drawn on Agency of The Bank of California, Virginia, Nev., February 14, 1876, made out to self in the amount of $750.00. This check has H. M. Yerington imprint and buff RND. Kidder was born in New York City in 1830 and moved to Nevada in 1860. Later on he would be the chief engineer for the Northern Pacific Railroad and would build a narrow gauge railroad in Nevada County, California from 1874 to 1876 that went from Colfax, via Grass Valley, to Nevada City. The railroad was twenty-two miles long and cost $641,000.00 to build. Kidder married his wife Sarah in 1873. Upon his death in 1901, Sarah became the first woman to run a railroad in the area, if not the U.S. [http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~npmelton/nevkid.htm].