New York Central and Hudson River Railroad Co.- Mrs. Frank C. Vanderbilt transfers $200,000, not signed - 1870 dated Autographed Stock Certificate

Stock transfer sheet Mrs. Frank C. Vanderbilt transfers $200,000 of Bonds. 5 cents Washington revenue stamp! Choice!

Frances Armstrong Crawford-Vanderbilt (January 18, 1839 – May 4, 1885) was an American socialite and philanthropist. During the American Civil War, she was a strong supporter of the Confederate States of America. After the war, she lived in New York City and married multi-millionaire Cornelius Vanderbilt. Frank Armstrong Crawford was born on January 18, 1839, in Mobile, Alabama, to Robert Leighton Crawford and Martha Eliza Everett. Her parents named her after their best friend, Frank Armstrong, before she was born, not knowing she would be female. Growing up in Mobile, she attended St. Francis Street Methodist Church.

During the American Civil War of 1861–1865, she was "an unrepentant Confederate." After the war, she moved to New York City with her mother. Augusta Jane Evans described her as a "zealous Methodist.” In 1873 Crawford persuaded her husband, Cornelius Vanderbilt, to give $1 million to Bishop Holland Nimmons McTyeire, the husband of her cousin, Amelia Townsend, to found Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. Cornelius saw this gift as a sign of reconciliation to the South, after he had helped defeat the Confederate States Army with his USS Vanderbilt during the Civil War. However, he never visited the university. Read more at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Armstrong_Crawford_Vanderbilt

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