E. H. Harriman transferred Sterling Iron and Railway Co. - Stock Certificate - A for Sale

E. H. Harriman transferred Sterling Iron and Railway Co. - Stock Certificate - A For Sale

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E. H. Harriman transferred Sterling Iron and Railway Co. - Stock Certificate - A:
$128.00

This 1892 stock is transferred to Harriman but not signed. Superb graphics by American Bank Note Co., NY. Very Rare! Edward Henry Harriman (1848-1909), Railroad Executive, Capitalist. Son of an Episcopal clergyman. A Wall St. office-boy at fourteen, he bought a seat on the N.Y. stock exchange seven years later. Also involved in banks and insurance companies, he owned a steamship line to the Orient. Harriman was born on February 20, 1848, in Hempstead, New York, the son of Orlando Harriman, Sr., an Episcopal clergyman, and Cornelia Neilson. He had a brother, Orlando Harriman, Jr. His great-grandfather, William Harriman, had emigrated from England in 1795 and became a successful businessman and trader. As a young boy, Harriman spent a summer working at the Greenwood Iron Furnace in the area owned by the Robert Parker Parrott family that would become Harriman State Park. He quit school at age 14 to take a job as an errand boy on Wall Street in New York City. His uncle Oliver Harriman had earlier established a career there. By age 22, he was a member of the New York Stock Exchange. Harriman's father-in-law was president of the Ogdensburg and Lake Champlain Railroad Company, which aroused Harriman's interest in upstate New York transportation. In 1881, at age 33, Harriman acquired the small, broken-down Lake Ontario Southern Railroad. He renamed it the Sodus Bay & Southern, reorganized it, and sold it to the Pennsylvania Railroad at a considerable profit. This was the start of his career as a rebuilder of bankrupt railroads. Harriman was nearly 50 years old when in 1897 he became a director of the Union Pacific Railroad. By May 1898, he was chairman of the executive committee, and from that time until his death, his word was the law on the Union Pacific system. In 1903, he assumed the off Item ordered may not be exact piece shown. All original and authentic.