Interesting story. "Peggy Draeger, a facilities employee at Huntington Bancshares Inc., didn't imagine her love of Abraham Lincoln would come into focus conducting inventory of bank vaults. But when employees found a long-forgotten box, Ms. Draeger sat on the floor and pulled out the last-known signature of the Great Emancipator—on a check. . . . . " http://online.wsj.com/article/SB100...77056150360069294.html?mod=WSJ_myyahoo_module
In my town all the local banks were taken over by large interstate banks. And so goes that local history.
The details may exist, but the Artifacts of Assassination don't tell us. However, they do say he did have a $5 Confederate note in his pocket. More
Which in of in itself is a sure travesty, for there will go personal service and people you count among friends in your banking institution. Fortunately I do bank with one institution that has expanded hugely in the last 117 years as a financial institution - they now have three branches. But it is a bank geared towards agricultural loans in a rural community. Most of the tellers have been there for very long times, curiously they do not have the young college student types. Said institution was a bank of convenience for me a few years ago, but has endeavoured to draw more and more of my deposits and business and also recommend because of the mutually beneficial relationship I have with them. You cannot get the above with large interstate hundreds of branches institutions.
BTW that Lincoln cheque is a national treasure(my Antiques Roadshow lingo). I do ponder what Lincoln cashed a cheque for $800 for and what became of the cash - was it for Mary Lincoln to sequester her debts, was it for some debt of Lincoln's?
The local paper had an article on this the other day. These are now on display at the Huntington branch in Brooklyn, Ohio. (a suburb of Cleveland). Also, this display will be moved to other Huntington branches in the future.
