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| | ORTON'S BANK: An Inventory of Its Financial Records at the Minnesota Historical Society |
 | | Two loan collection registers (1880-1890), a loan remittance register (1883-1884), a journal (1883-1887), a ledger (1886-1890) and some biographical and historical information documenting the business activities of Orton's Bank, Ortonville, Minnesota, which was formed and owned by Cornelius Knute Orton, for whom the town of Ortonville was named. |
 | | BIOGRAPHY OF C. (Cornelius Knute) Orton was born (October 11, 1846) in LaCrosse, Wisconsin, moved to Iowa (1853), and then to Lanesboro, Minnesota (1857) where he was a bookkeeper and merchant. |
 | | The village of Ortonville was named for him and he served as its first postmaster (1875), village officer (1881), and owner and operator of Orton's Bank. |
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