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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chip, post: 998679, member: 19122&quot;]One of the names listed around the edge of the educational 1 silver certificate is Bancroft, I had heard of every other name on the list, but Bancrofts name was unfamiliar to me</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.numissociety.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=3359" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I quickly found two Bancrofts that might be the one listed in the note, one was a minister and revolutionary war soldier, but the one intended in the note was George Bancroft, who was secretary of the Navy, founded the US Naval Academy at Anapolis, and wrote a history of the United States that was a popular text book in the 19th century. He passed away in 1891 at the age of 91.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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