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Auction: 16017 - Bonds and Share Certificates of the World
Lot: 874

Thomas A. Scott: Indianapolis & St. Louis Railroad Co., 8% Equipment Bond, $1000, Indiana, 1871, #1, only this one is listed in Cox, signature on verso, large format, steam train in centre, black, blue underprint, with coupons, tear at top right with piece missing otherwise about very fine and extremely rare.

Thomas Alexander Scott (1823-1881) was president of the Pennsylvania Railroad (1874-1880), at the time one of largest publicly traded corporations in the world. During the American Civil War, Scott was U.S. Assistant Secretary of War and played a major role in the use of railroads during the war effort of the Union.

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