Mohawk and Malone Railway Co. Issued to and Signed by George S. Bowdoin - 1905 dated Autographed Stock Certificate

Stock issued to and signed by George S. Bowdoin on back. Also signed by E.V.W. Rossiter as treasurer on front and back. 2 cents revenue stamp on back.

Edward Van Wyck Rossiter (1844-1910) President’s clerk for Hudson River Railroad; Treasurer’s office clerk for Hudson River Railroad 1860-67; cashier New York & Harlem Railroad 1867-77. Later treasurer of same company, June 1883 became treasurer and from November 1900 had been Vice President of New York Central and Hudson River Railroad, New York & Harlem Railroad as well as of almost all the lines affiliated with the New York Central Company, also Lincoln National Bank and Lincoln Safe Deposit Company.

When George Sullivan Bowdoin was born on 25 September 1833, in New York City, New York, United States, his father, George Russel James Bowdoin, was 23 and his mother, Frances Hamilton, was 19. He married Julia Irving Grinnell on 18 June 1862, in New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He died on 16 December 1913, in Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Sleepy Hollow, Mount Pleasant, Westchester, New York, United States.