Littlestown National Bank, Littlestown, PA (Charter 9207)

Postcard of the Littlestown National Bank ca1940s. Courtesy of Adam Stroup

Littlestown National Bank, Littlestown, PA (Chartered 1908 - Closed (Merger) 1988)

Town History

Littlestown NB 60th year of service to the community. Pictured are Paul E Lawyer (left) bank vice president, president Arthur E. Bair (center) and his wife Mrs. Viola Bair (right) marking Bair's 50 years of service to the bank. The Evening Sun, Hanover, PA, Thu. Sep. 26, 1968.

Littlestown is a borough in Adams County, Pennsylvania. The population was 4,434 at the 2010 census.

Originally laid out by Peter Klein in 1760, the town was first named "Petersburg". German settlers in the area came to call the town "Kleine Stedtle". As confusion between the town and a neighboring town (also named "Petersburg", now York Springs) grew, the town officially changed its name to Littlestown (essentially a translation of "Kleine Stedtle" from German) in 1795.  Littlestown is surrounded by three larger towns -- Hanover, Gettysburg, and Westminster, Maryland—all within 10 to 20 miles driving distance.  Littlestown is two miles from the Mason Dixon line which separates Pennsylvania and Maryland. It is about 38 miles from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania's capitol.

Littlestown had one National Bank chartered during the Bank Note Era, and it issued National Bank Notes.

Bank History

• Organized May 20, 1908
• Chartered July 30, 1908
• Opened for business September 15, 1908
• Bank was Open past 1935
• For Bank History after 1935 see FDIC Bank History website
• Merged into Gettysburg National Bank, Gettysburg, PA on March 16, 1988

Official Bank Title(s)

1: The Littlestown National Bank, Littlestown, PA

Bank Note Types Issued

1902 Plain Back $10 bank note with printed signatures of Warren R. Jones, Cashier and Geo. S. Kump, President. Courtesy of Heritage Auctions, www.ha.com

1929 Type 1 $10 bank note with printed signatures of Arthur E. Bair, Cashier and Warren R. Jones, President. Courtesy of Heritage Auctions, www.ha.com

A total of $735,670 in National Bank Notes was issued by this bank between 1908 and 1988. This consisted of a total of 63,728 notes (34,020 large size and 29,708 small size notes).

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

Series/Type	Sheet/Denoms	Serial#s	Sheet Comments
1902 Date Back	4x5	1 - 1675
1902 Date Back	3x10-20	1 - 1930
1902 Plain Back	3x10-20	1931 - 6830
1929 Type 1	6x10	1 - 2368
1929 Type 1	6x20	1 - 634
1929 Type 2	10	1 - 9141
1929 Type 2	20	1 - 2555

Bank Presidents and Cashiers

Littlestown National Bank Presidents and Cashiers during the National Bank Note Era (1908 - 1988):

Presidents:

• George S. Kump, 1908-1923
• Warren Ramsay Jones, 1924-1935

Cashiers:

• William Roberts Robinson, 1908-1909
• Paul Geyer Hartman, 1910-1912
• Warren Ramsay Jones, 1913-1923
• Arthur Eugene Bair, 1924-1935

Other Bank Note Signers

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

Wiki Links

• Pennsylvania Bank Note History
• General information on Littlestown (Wikipedia)
• General information on Adams County (Wikipedia)
• General information on Pennsylvania (Wikipedia)

Sources

• Littlestown, PA, Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Littlestown,_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
• The Evening Sun, Hanover, PA, Thu. Sep. 26, 1968, p. 2.