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Auction: 321 - The Numismatic Collector's Series Sale and Stocks and Bonds of the Americas
Lot: 1153

Illinois Central Rail Road Company, (IL), $100 shares, 1885, No. 223, issued to and signed on the back, and on the stub, by E. H. Harriman, brown frame, map, IC, VF+.

Edward Henry Harriman (1848-1901) was a railroad executive who rebuilt bankrupt railroads and eventually gained control over the Union Pacific, Southern Pacific, Saint Joseph and Grand Island, Illinois Central, Central of Georgia, Pacific Mail Steamship Company, and the Wells Fargo Express Company.

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