Puget Sound and Alaska Steamship Co. Issued to and signed by Brayton Ives and signed by Colgate Hoyt - Stock Certificate

Stock issued to and signed on back by Brayton Ives. Also signed by Colgate Hoyt as president.

Brayton Ives (1840-1914) was born in Farmington, Connecticut. Graduating from Yale University in 1861, he entered the Union army as Adjutant of the 5th Connecticut Infantry and served throughout the war, being promoted successively to Captain, in October, 1861; Assistant Adjutant General, with rank of Captain, March, 1862; major, 1st Conn. Cav., January, 1864; Lieutenant Colonel, November, 1864, and Colonel of the regiment in January, 1865. During the last year of the War, he served under Custer and Sheridan and was mustered out in August, 1865, a brevet Brigadier General.

Married in 1867 to Eleanor A., daughter of the Rev S.B.S. Bissell of Norwalk, Connecticut, he is father of Winifred, Sherwood Bissell, Eunice and Frances Havens Ives.

In 1867, General Ives went into stock brokerage on Wall Street and soon became prominent at the Stock Exchange. Elected vice-president of the Exchange in 1876 and 1877, his associates made him president in 1878 and 1879. He was a member of the Governing Committee for thirteen years. Retiring from Wall Street in 1889, he accepted the presidency of The Western National Bank, April 1, 1890. By diligent study of the problems of finance, Gen. Ives has gained the rank of an authority.

He was president of The Northern Pacific Railroad from 1893 to 1896, director of The Mercantile Trust Co., The United States Guarantee Co., and The New York Stock Exchange Building Co., and chairman of The Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co. He was a valued member of the Union League, Metropolitan, University, Century, Grolier, Players', New York Yacht, Tuxedo, and Riding clubs and The New England Society and Loyal Legion.

The press has published many essays from his pen. He was a collector of rare books and bric-a-brac, was a Presidential Elector on the Republican ticket in 1888, and chairman of the finance committee of the centennial celebration in New York in 1889.

Colgate Hoyt (1849-1922), banker, born in Cleveland, Ohio, March 2, 1849, is a son of James M. Hoyt, a lawyer and man of high position. The young man attended Phillips Academy, Andover, but, owing to the failure of his sight, left school at the end of the first year. He then secured a place in a hardware store in Cleveland, rose by his own merit, and finally joined his father in real estate operations, becoming himself the owner of desirable properties. During 1877-81, he engaged in loans of money on real estate security. In May, 1881, he removed to New York City to become a partner in the banking and bullion firm of J. B. Colgate & Co. He made his way here with marked success and remained an active member until the death of Mr. Trevor, in 1890. Banking soon led him into intimate relations with large corporations. A government director of The Union Pacific Railroad, 1882-84, he was thereafter a company director but resigned several years later. In 1884, he joined Charles L. Colby and Edwin H. Abbott in The Wisconsin Central Railroad enterprise, these three men becoming trustees of the entire stock of the corporation, and building a road to St. Paul and one from near Milwaukee to Chicago, thus making The Wisconsin Central a through line from Chicago to St. Paul and Milwaukee. They also built The Chicago & Northern Pacific Railroad as a terminal, with splendid passenger stations in Chicago. Mr. Hoyt has also been a director and active spirit in The Oregon Railway & Navigation Co., The Northern Pacific Railroad, and The Oregon & Transcontinental Co., and in 1890 reorganized the latter as The North America Co., with entire success, and under trying circumstances. The American Steel Barge Co., whose shipyard and docks are at West Superior, Wisconsin, is the creation of Mr. Hoyt, who bought the whaleback patents of Capt. Alex. McDougall in 1888, organized the company with a capital $500,000, becoming its president and treasurer, and has since employed about 1,500 men and constructed about thirty whalebacks and other vessels of importance. Another of his enterprises is The Spanish-American Iron Co., of which he is an organizer and treasurer, which, with a capital of $5,000,000, is working the Lola group of iron mines in Cuba. Mr. Hoyt was prominent socially, and was a member of the Metropolitan, Union League, Lawyers’, Riding, Fencers’, Country, Oyster Bay Yacht, Larchmont Yacht and Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht clubs, and The Ohio Socity. In 1873, he married Lida W. Sherman, daughter of Judge Charles T. Sherman, and a niece of Gen. William T. Sherman. They have four children living.

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