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Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Co. signed by Edward H. Harriman - 1901 dated Autograph Railway Stock Certificate

Inv# AG1004   Stock
State(s): Maryland
Years: 1901
Color: Green and Black
Stock Issued to and signed by E. H. Harriman at back. Includes portrait as well as biographical information.

Edward Henry Harriman (February 20, 1848 – September 9, 1909) was an influential American financier and railroad executive. At nearly 50 years old, Harriman became a director of the Union Pacific Railroad in 1897. By May 1898, he was the chairman of the executive committee, effectively becoming the primary decision-maker for the Union Pacific system. In 1903, he assumed the presidency of the company. Harriman also served as the president of the Southern Pacific Railroad from 1901 to 1909, and he envisioned a unified Union Pacific-Southern Pacific railroad—a vision realized when the two railroads merged on September 11, 1996, following approval from the Surface Transportation Board.

Harriman is referenced in the 1969 film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid as the powerful railroad baron whose agents pursue the title characters. In the movie's second train robbery, a railroad employee cites his loyalty to Harriman as his reason for refusing to cooperate with the robbers, while one of the gang's associates describes Harriman's hiring of renowned outlaw hunters to track down the gang leaders. In another 1969 film, The Wild Bunch, a character named Pat Harrigan serves as a stand-in for Harriman.

Condition: Excellent

A stock certificate is issued by businesses, usually companies. A stock is part of the permanent finance of a business. Normally, they are never repaid, and the investor can recover his/her money only by selling to another investor. Most stocks, or also called shares, earn dividends, at the business's discretion, depending on how well it has traded. A stockholder or shareholder is a part-owner of the business that issued the stock certificates.

Item ordered may not be exact piece shown. All original and authentic.
Was: $605.00  SALE Price:  $350.00
List Price: $550.00