Citizens National Bank, Ashland, PA (Charter 2280)

Postcard view of the U.S. Post Office and The Citizens National Bank of Ashland, Pennsylvania ca1930s. Courtesy of Adam Stroup

Citizens National Bank, Ashland, PA (Chartered 1875 - Closed (Merger) 1996)

Town History

Modern view of the Citizens National Bank of Ashland, Pennsylvania ca2020. Courtesy of Google Maps

Ashland is a borough in Schuylkill County in Pennsylvania, 15 miles northwest of Pottsville. A small part of the borough also lies in Columbia County, although all of the population resided in the Schuylkill County portion as of the 2010 census. The borough lies in the anthracite coal region of eastern Pennsylvania. Settled in 1850, Ashland was incorporated in 1857, and was named for Henry Clay's estate near Lexington, Kentucky. The population in 1900 was 6,438, and in 1940, 7,045, but had dropped to 2,817 at the 2010 census.

The Ashland Boys' Association was an inspirational story of former residents of Ashland who had to leave town for work when the anthracite mining failed in the late 1800s. Ashland men returned home every Labor Day weekend for a little more than a century to visit the old hometown and march in the grand Ashland Boys' Association Mummers' Parade.

The "Mothers' Memorial" is located at the junction of Pennsylvania Route 54 and Pennsylvania Route 61. The "Mothers' Memorial" is a bronze reproduction of the famous James Abbott McNeill Whistler artistic painting: "An Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1", commonly known as "Whistler's Mother". The WPA-built "Mothers' Memorial" honors all mothers of the United States and it became a legacy of the Ashland Boys' Association.

Ashland had three National Banks chartered during the Bank Note Era, and all three of those banks issued National Bank Notes.

Bank History

Organized May 5, 1875
Chartered Jun 24, 1875
Bank was Open past 1935
For Bank History after 1935 see FDIC Bank History website
Merged into Community Banks NA, Millersburg, PA Jan 12, 1996

Official Bank Title(s)

1: The Citizens National Bank of Ashland, PA

2: The Citizens' National Bank of [1929], Ashland, PA

Bank Note Types Issued

1902 Plain Back $5 bank note with stamped signatures of W.S. Rothermel, Cashier and Frank L. Buck, President. Courtesy of Lyn Knight Auctions, www.lynknight.com

1929 Type 1 $10 bank note with printed signatures of W.S. Rothermel, Cashier and Frank L. Buck, President. Courtesy of Heritage Auctions, www.ha.com

A total of $1,572,240 in National Bank Notes was issued by this bank between 1875 and 1996. This consisted of a total of 192,068 notes (163,180 large size and 28,888 small size notes).

This bank issued the following Types and Denominations of bank notes:

Series/Type	Sheet/Denoms	Serial#s	Sheet Comments
1: Original Series	4x5	1 - 1600
1: Series 1875	4x5	1 - 510
1: Series 1875	3x10-20	1 - 2469
1: 1882 Brown Back	4x5	1 - 1950
1: 1882 Brown Back	3x10-20	1 - 3750
1: 1882 Date Back	4x5	1 - 6100
1: 1882 Date Back	3x10-20	1 - 3573
1: 1902 Date Back	4x5	1 - 1000
1: 1902 Date Back	3x10-20	1 - 800
1: 1902 Plain Back	4x5	1001 - 13130
1: 1902 Plain Back	3x10-20	801 - 7713
2: 1929 Type 1	6x5	1 - 2378
2: 1929 Type 1	6x10	1 - 1286
2: 1929 Type 1	6x20	1 - 358
2: 1929 Type 2	5	1 - 2430
2: 1929 Type 2	10	1 - 1894
2: 1929 Type 2	20	1 - 432

Bank Presidents and Cashiers

Bank Presidents and Cashiers during the National Bank Note Era (1875 - 1996):

Presidents:

Cashiers:

Other Bank Note Signers

There are currently no known Vice President or Assistant Cashier bank note signers for this bank.

Wiki Links

Sources

Ashland, PA, Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashland,_Pennsylvania
Don C. Kelly, National Bank Notes, A Guide with Prices. 6th Edition (Oxford, OH: The Paper Money Institute, 2008).
Dean Oakes and John Hickman, Standard Catalog of National Bank Notes. 2nd Edition (Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 1990).
Banks & Bankers Historical Database (1782-1935), https://bbdata.banknotehistory.com