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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;scottishmoney, post: 7843211, member: 12789&quot;][ATTACH=full]1349653[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>The subject of this note, John Sherman was a native son from Lancaster Ohio.&nbsp; He was also the brother of William Tecumseh Sherman - a well known Civil War general.&nbsp; But importantly for National Bank collectors, he was a principal party in the legislation that became the National Banking Act of 1864 that created National Banks with funds deposited with bonds paid into the Treasury to back currency issues from each bank - thus guaranteeing that note holders would not be left with worthless paper if the bank cratered.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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