2nd National Bank

1912 Minot Daily Optic – 2^nd National Bank. – The Second National Bank ( later it would become the 1^st National Bank we know today) had an ad in the paper featuring their safe deposit boxes. The safe deposit boxes were in Second National Bank’s “fire and burglar proof vaults”. The cost to rent one started at $2.00 per year. The bank chartered as Second Nati0onal Bank as there were two 1^st National Banks previously that had gone under and they did not want any association with them.