Mohawk and Malone Railway Co. signed by W. S. Webb - 1892 dated Autograph Stock Certificate

Stock signed on front by Wm. S. Webb as president and transferred to Chauncey M. Depew on back. Very Rare! Portrait and biography included.

William Seward Webb (January 31, 1851 – October 29, 1926) was a businessman, and inspector general of the Vermont militia with the rank of colonel. He was a founder and former president of the Sons of the American Revolution.

Webb was born on January 31, 1851, to James Watson Webb and Laura Virginia (née Cram) Webb (1826–1890). Among his many siblings was Alexander Stewart Webb, who was a noted Civil War general who married Anna Elizabeth Remsen; Henry Walter Webb, also a railway executive who married Amelia Howard Griswold; and George Creighton Webb, a Yale Law School graduate and attorney in New York with Saunders, Webb & Worcester who did not marry.

He studied medicine in Vienna, Paris and Berlin. Returning to America, he entered the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and graduated from there in 1875. In 1881, he married Eliza Osgood Vanderbilt, the daughter of William Henry Vanderbilt. For several years Webb practiced medicine; then forsook the profession for finance at the behest of his wife's family, establishing the Wall Street firm of W. S. Webb & Co.

Chauncey M. Depew (1834-1928) was a lawyer and railway president. He served as a member of the New York Legislature, New York Secretary of State, and was appointed as the first U.S. Minister to Japan. Depew eventually resigned from this post to work as an attorney and legislative contact for Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt's Railroads. He later served as the president of the New York Central from 1885 to 1898 and as a U.S. Senator for New York from 1899 to 1911. Known for his storytelling skills, Depew was a highly influential figure during his time.

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