Rockingham Bank - Portsmouth, NH

Bank Information

Episode Type: Suspension → Closure
Bank Type: state
Start Date: July 20, 1876
Location: Portsmouth, New Hampshire (43.072, -70.763)

Metadata

Model: gpt-5-mini
Short Digest: a7e44df2

Response Measures

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Description

Single telegraphic brief (Memphis Daily Appeal, 1876-07-21) reports 'The Rockingham bank closed its doors to-day' (Portsmouth, July 20). No article text mentions a prior run or any reopening; therefore interpreted as a suspension that appears to be a closure. Cause not specified in the brief.

Events (1)

1. July 20, 1876 Suspension

Cause Details: Telegraphic brief gives no reason; article only states the bank 'closed its doors' on July 20, 1876.
Newspaper Excerpt: Portsmouth, July 20: The Rockingham bank closed its doors to-day.
Source: newspapers

Newspaper Articles (1)

1. July 21, 1876 Memphis Daily Appeal Memphis, Hernando, Grenada, Jackson, Vicksburg, Atlanta, Griffin, Macon, Montgomery, Selma, TN

Article from Memphis Daily Appeal, July 21, 1876

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Article Text

f TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS. New York, July 20.-Don Carlos and party have arrived. Portsmouth, July 20: The Rockingham bank closed its doors to-day. Westchester, July 20: The Cincinnati Light guards arrived here to day. London, July 20; The steamers Nova Scotia and Wurtemberg, from Baltimore, have arrived out. Boston, July 20: The loss by fire at Barton's Landing, Vermont, is sixty thousand dollars; insurance, thirty-five thousand dollars. New York, July 20: The steamer Bal. tie burned ou her trip up the Hudson river last night. Loss, sixty thousand dollars. No lives lost. Paris, July 20: The specie in the Bank of France increased fourteen million five hundred and eighty-one thousand francs during the past week. New Orleans, July 20: The schoon= er Lily of the Valley, from Milla, brought the crew of the schooner Lizzie, of Mobile, wrecked recently near the Balize. Indianapolis, July 20: The Democratic convention of the seventh congressioual district met at Greencastle to-day, and nominated Hon. F. Landers, for re-election to COD grees. Indianapolis, July 20: Ezra Dawson, a well-known resident of this city, shot and dangerously wounded A. S. Foster, a livery stable keeper, for the alleged seduction of bis daughter, fifteen years old. Dawson's action is generally indorsed. Montreal, July 20.-Campell, leatherbelting merchant, has failed. Assets, including bad debts, two hundred and forty thousand dollars; liabilities, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, of which one hundred and sixty-six thousand dollars are said to be secured. London, July 20: J. & G. Harris, the Australian merchants who made an arrangement with their creditors last year, agreeing to pay in full, now announce their suspension. Liabilities one million five hundred thousand dollars, assets one million dollars. Rochester, July 20: Freeman Clark's large stone building, occupied as 3 sash and blind factory and planing mill, was burned yesterday afternoon. Loss on the building and contents fifty thousand dollars; insurance trifling. John P. Marks,a workman, was burned to death, and & fireman seriously injured by the falling of a ladder. Cincinnati, July 20: A Times special says that a train of three cars, with the Odd Fellows excursion party from Newark to Yellow Springs, Ohio, on board, collided with a hand-car near Columbus this morning, and ran off down a bank thirty feet. David Reynolds, the fireman, was killed. James Freeman, the engineer, was fatally injured, and J.C. Turner injured internally. Several others were bruised, but not seriously.