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Auction: 16017 - Bonds and Share Certificates of the World
Lot: 860

Collis Potter Huntington: Newport News and Mississippi Valley Co., 100 shares of $100 each, 1889, #B08, signed as President, eagle at bottom, green, cancelled, very fine.

Collis Potter Huntington (1821-1900) was one of the Big Four (along with Leland Stanford, Mark Hopkins, and Charles Crocker) who built the Central Pacific Railroad as part of the First U.S. transcontinental railroad. Huntington then helped lead and develop other major interstate lines such as the Southern Pacific Railroad and the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway.

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