Stock Yards National Bank, South Omaha, NE (Charter 9908)
Stock Yards National Bank, South Omaha, NE (Chartered 1910 - Closed (Merger) 1985)
Town History
South Omaha, located in Douglas County, is a former city and current district of Omaha, Nebraska. During its initial development phase, the town's nickname was "The Magic City" because of the seemingly overnight growth due to the rapid development of the Union Stockyards. Annexed by the City of Omaha in 1915, the community has numerous historical landmarks; many are within the South Omaha Main Street Historic District. The traditional borders of South Omaha included Vinton Street to the north, Harrison Street to the south, the Missouri River to the east, and 42nd Street to the west.
The area that would become South Omaha was rural until the early 1880s when cattle baron Alexander Hamilton Swan decided to establish a stockyards operation just south of Omaha. The South Omaha plat was registered on July 18, 1884. Two years later, South Omaha was incorporated as a city. By 1890, the city had grown to 8,000 people, a rate of growth that earned it the nickname "The Magic City".
In less than 10 years, South Omaha had developed as a regional stockyards and meatpacking center. Its industrial jobs did not require high-level language skills, so it drew thousands of immigrant workers, mostly from eastern and southern Europe. This area of the city showed ethnic succession as different waves of immigrants established certain territories as their own during their first settlement.
South Omaha had five National Banks chartered during the Bank Note Era, and all five of those banks issued National Bank Notes.
Bank History
- Organized July 11, 1910
- Chartered December 20, 1910
- Succeeded 3611, South Omaha National Bank and 4632, Union Stock Yards National Bank, South Omaha, NE Branch
- Bank was Open past 1935
- For Bank History after 1935 see FDIC Bank History website
- Merged into Norwest Bank Omaha, N.A. in Omaha, NE, January 1, 1985
Official Bank Title
1: Stock Yards National Bank of South Omaha, NE
Bank Note Types Issued
A total of $2,468,950 in National Bank Notes was issued by this bank between 1910 and 1935. This consisted of a total of 302,157 notes (227,968 large size and 74,189 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 - 30750 1902 Date Back 3x10-20 1 - 23300 1902 Plain Back 4x5 30751 - 32484 1902 Plain Back 3x10-20 23301 - 24508 1929 Type 1 6x5 1 - 5578 1929 Type 1 6x10 1 - 3232 1929 Type 1 6x20 1 - 880 1929 Type 2 5 1 - 9356 1929 Type 2 10 1 - 5363 1929 Type 2 20 1 - 1330
Bank Presidents and Cashiers
Bank Presidents and Cashiers during the National Bank Note Era (1910 - 1935):
Presidents:
- Henry Clay Bostwick, 1911-1919
- Rutherford Edwin "Ford" Hovey, 1920-1932
- James Breslin Owen, 1933-1935
Cashiers:
Other Known Bank Note Signers
Bank Note History Links
- Stock Yards National Bank, South Omaha, NE History (NB Lookup)
- Nebraska Bank Note History (BNH Wiki)
Sources
- South Omaha, NE, on Wikipedia
- 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://spmc.org/bank-note-history-project