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Auction: 20128 - Bonds and Share Certificates of the World e-Auction
Lot: 499

U.S.A.: Oregon Pacific Rail Road Co. (OR), $100 shares, 188[6], #319, signed by T.E.Hogg as President, train crossing river at top, steam boat bottom right, ornate border, black. Colonel Thomas Egerton Hogg was a rebel leader during the Civil War. He was sentenced to hang for attempting to rob ships coming into California whilst under the Confederate flag. It was commuted to life imprisonment but he was released under the general amnesty of 1866. In 1872 he reappeared in Corvallis and managed to incorporate and build the Corvallis & Yaquina Bay Railroad, later renamed the Oregon Pacific. The company failed due to mismanagement becoming bankrupt in 1890. Although Hogg was appointed receiver he was removed in 1893 and the line sold to the Oregon Central. Pin holes top left, repaired tears on edge of folds, AVF.

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