United New Jersey Rail Road and Canal Co. Issued to Albert H. Gallatin - Son of Albert R. Gallatin - 1875, 1877 or 1879 dated Autographed Stock

Stock issued to Albert H. Gallatin. Not signed.

Albert Horatio Gallatin, Phi, 1859, Phi Alpha 1881-1882, was a “Renaissance Man” who excelled in many fields of study. Born March 7, 1839 died March 25, 1902. Brother Gallatin and his brother, Frederick, Phi 1861, came from a wealthy and prominent family in New York City. They were the grandsons of Albert Gallatin, a former United States Senator and Secretary of Treasury (1801-1814), who was a co-founder of the University of the City of New York (nee New York University). Brother Gallatin served as a surgeon in the Civil War and as a professor of various sciences at five universities. He was a professor of chemistry, geology and mineral science at Norwich University (CT); a professor of chemistry at Rutgers Female College (NY); a professor of analytical chemistry at NYU; a professor of analytic chemistry and director of the lab at Cooper Union and a lecturer of physics at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (NY). He also studied at the Union Theological Seminary, was a curator at the New York Lyceum of Natural History and a director of the Zoological Garden at Central Park. Brother Gallatin was also a visionary. At the Grand Chapter Convention of 1865, Brother Gallatin reported that he would soon go to Europe and desired “to be invested with the authority to investigate the desirability of extending Zeta Psi to the continent” The motion carried. (The Story of Zeta Psi, 1932) There is no record of why the mission failed; but, it demonstrates Brother Gallatin’s foresight as Zeta Psi became the first American fraternity to establish a chapter in Europe more than 100 years later. Brother Gallatin was also instrumental in the re-establishment of the Zeta chapter at Williams College and the establishment of the Eta chapter at Yale University.