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migrated toward the cities and big army camps. Despite a loss of manpower to the efforts of World War I, farming continued on pretty much the same course.
Two presidents of Rappahannock National Bank served their terms while World War I was being fought. Alfred Willis Dealing was already serving as president of the bank when Europe plunged into the war in 1914. Many Americans at the time advocated a role of neutrality and President Woodrow Wilson saw America’s role as that of a peace broker. But, after staying the neutral course as long as possible, President Wilson finally asked Congress for a formal declaration of war in 1917.
A year before that, B.J. Wood became the third president of Rappahannock National Bank.
Rappahannock County lost three men to combat and one to disease while serving in World War I which ended in 1918. Some 104 men were called to serve in the war from this county, including Dick Miller of the bank and J. Rodes Sr., whose son was a cashier at the bank,
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