Bank of the Valley - Winchester, VA

Bank Information

Episode Type: Suspension → Closure
Bank Type: state
Start Date: October 22, 1872
Location: Winchester, Virginia (39.186, -78.163)

Metadata

Model: gpt-5-mini
Short Digest: 611de64d

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Description

Article (Alexandria Gazette, 1872-10-31) reports a court action involving the Bank of the Valley 'suing for H. G. Fant, receiver.' This indicates the bank (or the estate in question) was in receivership. No run or explicit suspension is described in the text; a receivership implies closure/permanent winding up, so I classify as suspension_closure. Date for the court sitting given as 'on the 22d' (interpreted as 1872-10-22).

Events (1)

1. October 22, 1872 Receivership

Newspaper Excerpt: In the Court of Appeals sitting in Winchester, on the 22d, upon the petition of the Bank of the Valley, suing for H. G. Fant, receiver, a writ of error was allowed and a supersedeas awarded to the judgment of the Circuit Court of Frederick in the suit against Jas. Marshall.
Source: newspapers

Newspaper Articles (1)

1. October 31, 1872 Alexandria Gazette Alexandria, VA

Article from Alexandria Gazette, October 31, 1872

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Article Text

WIRGINIA NEWS. We learn from the Winchester Times that the Fair of the Shenandoah Valley Agricultural Society opeued on Tuesday last, with the most cheering prospect of success. The entries in several departments were more numerous than ever before, and the attendance was fully as large as is usual on the first day, but on Wednesday morning it began to rain, and from that time until Saturday morning it tell almost without intermission. The result was a very slim attendance on Wednesday, and on Thursday operations were necessarily suspended altogether. The articles displayed in the La. dies Department were not only more numerqus. but in greater variety than at any previous Fair. A house belonging to Mrs. Malinda Miller. near Mt. Clifton, in Shenandoah county, was completely destroyed by fire on the night of Friday, the 18th inst. There had been no one living in the house for several days, and the fire is believed to have been the work of an incendiary. In the Court of Appeals sitting in Winchester, on the 22d, upon the petition of the Bank of the Valley, suing for H. G. Fant, receiver, a writ of error was allowed and a supersedeas awarded to the judgment of the Circuit Court of Frederick in the suit against Jas. Marshall. The Culpeper Observer says:-"A gentleman of the vicinage, a few day ago, whilst digging a post-hole, unearthed about a bushel of flints, designed for obsolete musket use, and which, from indications, seemed to have been perdu since the Revolution. It is rumored that Mr. Joseph Thornton, who OWDS a large tract of land, upon which is Thornton's station, on the W. & O. R. R., has gained a suit in England involving a very large amount, estimated as high as $1,000,000. Maj. A. B. Venable, late ef the Farmville New Commonwealth, has purchased the Petersburg Progress. The deaths in Richmond last week numbered 41.