This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Richards, Cornish, Dean, Davis Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/4261 Message Board Post: THE SIDNEY ARGUS - HERALD. August 27, 1931. "Check Written in 1878".-- While doing some repair work one day this week C. E. Reynolds found an old check written on December 2, 1878. The check was written by A. D. Richards, payable to himself, in the sum of $125 and on the First National Bank. The check bore a two cent internal revenue stamp, printed on the check, and was made by the St. Joe Steam Printing Co. This was one of many various means of raising revenue to pay off the Civil War debt. The institution was known as the Col. Cornish bank and was located in the buiding now occupied by Mrs. G. H. Dean with her gift shop. A.D. Richards was a Frenchman, and for years traded among the Indians, later locating in Hamburg, conducting a hardware store. Later he took Frank Davis in as a partner, and upon selling his interest in the store moved to Nebraska City, where he died.--The HAMBURG REPORTER.