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Auction: 316 - The Collector's Series
Lot: 608

Baltimore and Ohio RR 1901. 100 shs. Preferred Stock Trust. Green. Locomotive in circle. Issued to and signed on verso by E.H. Harriman. The punch cancels do not affect Harriman´s signature. A portrait of Harriman is included. IC. EF+. Harriman began his business career at the age of fourteen as a clerk in a Wall Street firm. By twenty-two he was a member of the New York Stock Exchange. He rebuilt bankrupt railroads, and eventually became a Director of the Union Pacific. He financed and traveled with Arctic expeditions.

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