Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Co. issued to Estate of P. A. B. Widener - Not Signed - 1926, 1927 or 1929 dated Stock Certificate

Stock issued to the "Estate of P. A. B. Widener" but not signed. Available issued to "Joseph E. Widener and George D. Widener, Trustees estate of P.A.B. Widener, Deceased" dated 1924. Also issued to "Joseph E. Widener & George D. Widener Trustees Estate of P.A. Widener, Dec'd dated 1927 or 1929. Please specify version.

Peter Arrell Browne Widener (November 13, 1834 – November 6, 1915) was an American businessman, art collector, and patriarch of the Widener family of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Widener was ranked #29 on the American Heritage list of the forty richest Americans in history, with a net worth at death of $23 billion to $25 billion (in 1998 dollars). The son of a Philadelphia butcher, Widener was born on November 13, 1834, to Johannes Widener and Sarah Fulmer. He was named after Peter Arrell Browne (1782–1860), a noted lawyer in 19th-century Philadelphia.

During the Civil War, Widener won a contract to supply mutton to all Union Army troops within 10 miles of Philadelphia. The city was a major transportation hub for troop deployment, and the location of many of the largest Union military hospitals. Widener invested his $50,000 profit in horse-drawn city streetcar lines. He grew to prominence in Philadelphia politics, and had become the City Treasurer by 1871. In 1883, he was a founding partner in the Philadelphia Traction Company, which electrified the city's trolley lines, and expanded into other major cities in the United States. 

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