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Oregon & Transcontinental Co. Stock Issued to & Signed by Oliver Ames [155776]

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Oregon & Transcontinental Co. Stock Issued to & Signed by Oliver Ames [155776]
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This item SOLD at 2023 Mar 31 @ 15:28UTC-7 : PDT/MST
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No. 33452, issued to Oliver Ames for 100 shares in 1886. Signed by president Elijah Smith and the asst. secretary. Punch cancelled. Signed by Ames on reverse. Green border, black print, and vignette of Native Americans looking down at train. ABN. Oliver Ames was the governor of Massachusetts from 1887-1890. Previous to that, he was lieutenant governor. His brother, also named Oliver Ames, was the president of the Union Pacific Railroad. His father, Oakes Ames, was implicated in the 1873 Credit Mobilier scandal. The Oregon & Transcontinental Company was a 19th-century holding company in the United States, organized by Henry Villard in 1881 to control the Northern Pacific Railroad and Oregon Railway and Navigation Company. In 1890, it was re-incorporated as a holding company in New Jersey and became the North American Company.

Date: 1886
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State: Oregon
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