[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] The bank, in addition to its capital stock of one hundred thousand dollars, now has a surplus of thirty-five thousand dollars, and deposits amounting to about one-third of a million of dollars. It owns and occupies a fine marble building, which stands in a conspicuous position at the angle made by Highland and Croton Avenues. Isaac B. Noxon, the cashier of the First National Bank, is descended from Dutch ancestry, who settled in Dutchess County, N. Y., at an early date; his father, James Noxon, who resided in the town of Le Grange, married Ann, daughter of Elijah Farrington, and their son, Isaac B., was born June 24, 1837. At the age of seven years he removed with his parents to Tompkins County, and remained with them on a farm, and when seventeen he attended for several terms the Cortlandtville Academy, with the intention of pre-paring for college. He taught a district school a por-tion of the time and for a while had charge of the primary department of the academy. Circumstances compelling him to relinquish the intention of attend-ing college, he removed to Sing Sing and entered the old Bank of Sing Sing as book-keeper. After the fail-ure of that institution he entered the banking office of C. F. Maurice & Co., and remained four years; this company was, in 1864, merged into the First National Bank, of which he has been cashier up to the present time. For twenty years he has been the secretary of the Sing Sing Savings Bank, and its ac-ting cashier. When Mr.