Irasburg National Bank of Orleans

Bank Information

Episode Type: Suspension → Closure
Bank Type: national
Bank ID: 1541
Charter Number: 1541
Start Date: March 17, 1875
Location: Irasburg, Vermont (44.803, -72.280)

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Model: gpt-5-mini
Short Digest: f3c2a17e26aee4ce

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Description

Article (Spirit of the Age, 1875-03-10) reports a directors' meeting called for March 17, 1875 to consider putting the Irasburgh National Bank into liquidation and closing it so stockholders may remove it to Barton. Spelling in the paper is Irasburgh (common historical variant) — corrected to Irasburg. No run or withdrawals are mentioned; this appears to be a voluntary liquidation/closure.

Events (3)

1. August 29, 1865 Chartered

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2. March 17, 1875 Suspension

Cause: Voluntary Liquidation
Cause Details: Directors called a meeting to consider putting the bank into liquidation and closing it to allow stockholders to remove the bank to Barton.
Newspaper Excerpt: A meeting of the directors of the Irasburgh National Bank has been called for March 17th, to consider the question of putting the bank into liquidation and closing it up, in order that the stockholders, who wish to remove it to Barton, may be able to
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3. March 17, 1875 Voluntary Liquidation

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Newspaper Articles (1)

1. March 10, 1875 Spirit of the Age Woodstock, VT

Article from Spirit of the Age, March 10, 1875

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Article Text

$14,000, partially covered by insurance. -Postmaster J. W. Clark, of Montpelier, was thrown from his sleigh, dragged by the reins and considerably hurt last Friday, his horse having taken fright at a blast in the frozen earth at the Pavillion foundations. -They have a fifteen- year old boy at Bennington who measures 24 inches around the head. A No. 8 hat, the largest in a store to which he recently went to purchase, was much to smalll for him. -The store occupied by Romeo Norton, of Huntington, was entered by the back doorlast Wednesday night and sixty dollars in money was stoled from the money draw. No clue to the robbers has yet been obtained. -Vermont is getting to be a no torious State for "shooting scrapes." The Walden affray of Wednesday last comes to us through the North Star. One Gannon beat a Mrs. Carr, and was to be tried for the assault. But the day of the trial Gannonand a gang of men went to the Carr house, to try to ttle. Albert Carr, son of the beaten woman, met them, ordered Gannon away, and then fired a pistol at him, the ball entering his chin and and running around to the back of the neck. The wound is not supposed to be fatal. Better put them both where they will do the most good, working for the State. -The next meeting of the Vermont conference of the Methodist church, will be held at Bellows Falls, April 27. -The clergymen connected with the Congregational churches of Franklin County Vermont, are out with a card, stating that Robert O'Neal, who was hired by the Congregational church of Fairfield, Vermont, to supply for a time their pulpit, is an im poster, and wholly unfit to hold any position of trust, and entirely andeserving of patronage or favor from any christian people. -A meeting of the directors of the Irasburgh National Bank has been called for March 17th, to consider the question of putting the bank intoliquidation and closing it up, in order that the stockholders, who wish to remove it to Barton, may be able to