Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-09-19 | Page 6 | Money Matters

i 1 o Money Moner Matters I 1 By R. R H. H TINGLEY Back In the middle of f the last century there lived JIved a a- young t r a i Mis gs Blackey- Blackey who bas the the- distinction ot of being so far as the writer knows the only woman whose portrait has ever adorned the fa face e- e eo ot o nn in American pank pilL bilk Curl Curl- enough also her counterfeit presentment ap appears appears ap- ap pears on the the- notes of at se several eral b king institutions ot of her time on tile 10 bills blUs o ot th Monticello bank ot of Charlottesville pa ia on tile 1 bills of the City of Augusta Ga bank in an an lon iother issue of the same ba bank k in 1861 on the 5 notes ot of the h Bank ot of Northumberland P also In 1856 and again In 1863 on the th 10 notes ot of the Exchange Bank ot of Columbia S. S C. C in 1863 on and On the 20 bills bUla of the Merchants Dank Bank ot of Nashville Tenn Of alt the banks th t I b n red Miss Blackey in this r perhaps the the- Monticello Institution is the most ts As knows was was the home ot of J ff rs x ri th b bank founded found found- ed in 1852 though at Charlottesville being named after it During its nl is e e 1 e U. U issued s s1 1 two five six seven eight nine ten ten- twenty fifty tifty and hundred one dollar bills nU all bearing the serial letter letterA letterA A except the ones ones and twos On the face ot of the tens twenties fifties and hundreds was engraved a handsome picture picture- of the west front o ot the Monticello l mansion and a portraIt ot of Jefferson on the fives tives tens ten twenties and hundreds All of these institutions were banks banka and h have ve probably gone where alt all good go to be superseded bythe y the national banks Press Press' C Co New York World Worl f