Five Dollar National Bank Note, issued by the Central National Bank of Portsmouth, Ohio, signed by George E. Kricker, bank president, 1905.

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Five Dollar National Bank Note, issued by the Central National Bank of Portsmouth, Ohio, signed by George E. Kricker, bank president, 1905.

Image courtesy of the Scioto Historical Collection, Digital History Lab, Clark Memorial Library, Shawnee State University, Portsmouth, Ohio.

This file appears in: Southern Ohio Museum & Cultural Center

By Andrew Lee Feight, Ph.D.
“The Kricker family’s long-term faith in the economic strength of Scioto County is a matter of historical record,” noted the Portsmouth Daily Times in May of 1978. Edmund J. Kricker, the seventy-nine year old chairman of the board and chief…