New York and Ottawa Railroad Co. Issued to Ira A. Place and signed by E.V.W. Rossiter - 1905 dated Autographed Stock Certificate

Stock issued to and signed by Ira A. Place on back. Also signed by E.V.W. Rossiter as president on front and back. Transferred to J.P. Morgan. Stock certificate #19!

Ira Place was the son of Thomas Place & Elizabeth Burdick Place. In 1893 he married Katherine B. Gauntlett, the daughter of John P. Gauntlett & Mary Jane Burritt Gauntlett. They had two known children. Mr. Place proved the American belief that the doors of opportunity are here open to every one.

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.