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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Skippy Topaz, post: 2295389, member: 76224&quot;]Just picked up this amazingly cool note and what makes the note so special (aside from me just loving the layout and multiple portraits) is that it&#039;s from Norristown, PA, the town that my wife is from and her family still lives. Her dad was also a Montgomery County Court Judge for thirty years.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]460753[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>In researching the note I discovered that the bank building is at the top center, Washington bottom center and that the four figures on the note were either from Norristown lived, or were laid to rest there.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here are short bios for each of them.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Brigadier General Adam Slemmer </b>(top left) was from Norristown, was a West Point graduate/teacher and Seminole War fighter and just so I wasn&#039;t left out of the connections to the note, he and I share the same birthday ... Very cool</p><p><br /></p><p><b>General Winfield Scott Hancock</b> (top right) was a war hero at Gettysburg, his troops bore the brunt of Pickett&#039;s Charge, one military historian wrote, &quot;No other Union general at Gettysburg dominated men by the sheer force of their presence more completely than Hancock and was known as &quot;The Thunderbolt of the Army of the Potomac.At the close of the war, Hancock was assigned to supervise the execution of the Lincoln Assassination conspirators and he later became a presidential candidate (defeated by James A. Garfield)</p><p><br /></p><p><b>John Frederick Hartranft</b> (right bottom)&nbsp; was the 17th Governor of Pennsylvania and a UnionMajor General who received the&nbsp; Medal of Honor for his actions during theAmerican Civil War and was a contender for the presidential nomination that eventually went to Rutherford B. Hayes</p><p><br /></p><p>He briefly worked for two railroads in eastern Pennsylvania before returning home to Norristown. In 1854, he was appointed Deputy Sheriff of Montgomery County.</p><p><br /></p><p>Hartranft was active in the Norristown fire company and the local Freemason Lodge and was admitted to the bar in 1860, and rose to the rank of Colonel in the Pennsylvania Militia. An equestrian statue next to the Pennsylvania Capitol Building in Harrisburg honors him.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Colonel John Schall </b>(bottom left) Civil War Union Army Officer. He was educated in private schools at Trappe and Norristown,&nbsp; In 1890 he was appointed postmaster at Norristown by President Harrison and served as such until 1894. He served as inspector of the National Guard under General John F. Hartranft, and after the latter&#039;s election to the governorship was appointed an aide on the General&#039;s staff, with the rank of lieutenant colonel. While General Hartranft was still in command of the division, in September 1879, General Schall was elected colonel of the Sixth Regiment, and was re-elected several times</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>These Obsoletes are a treasure trove of history just waiting to be opened. I&#039;m having such a great time learning about all of it and I have a feeling This note is going to make a great conversation piece over the egg nog when we go down there for the holidays <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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