Boston and Providence Rail Road Corporation Issued to John Gardner Coolidge - St for Sale

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Boston and Providence Rail Road Corporation Issued to John Gardner Coolidge - St:
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Stock Issued to John Gardner Coolidge but not signed. Printed by American Bank Note Company, New York and Boston. Coolidge was born in Boston, Massachusetts on July 4, 1863. He was the second of five sons born to Harvard University Law School graduate Joseph Randolph Coolidge and Julia (ne Gardner) Coolidge, both from prominent and wealthy Boston Brahmin families. His siblings included professor and diplomat Archibald Cary Coolidge, noted lawyer Harold Jefferson Coolidge Sr. (the father of zoologist Harold Jefferson Coolidge Jr.), and mathematician and professor Julian Lowell Coolidge. His paternal uncle was Thomas Jefferson Coolidge, the Boston businessman and U.S. Minister to France. His father, Joseph Randolph Coolidge, was a great-grandson of the 3rd United States President Thomas Jefferson, through his maternal grandparents, Thomas Mann Randolph Jr. and Martha Jefferson Randolph. John\'s great-uncles were Thomas Jefferson Randolph, George Wythe Randolph, Andrew Jackson Donelson, and his grandfather, Joseph Coolidge, was a distant relative of President Calvin Coolidge. Through his mother, John was the nephew of John Lowell Gardner II and his wife Isabella Stewart Gardner. His mother and uncle John were the grandchildren of merchant Joseph Peabody, one of the wealthiest men in the United States at the time of his death in 1844. In 1884, Coolidge, like all of his brothers, graduated from Harvard University.[4] In 1887, he traveled to east for a total of three years, living in Japan and traveling to China, India, Thailand and Malaysia. From 1890 to 1894, he lived in Brazil where he was a first hand witness to a period of vast political developments and a six month fight between the Brazilian Army and Navy in the Bay of Rio.[5] From 1902 to 1906, he was a member of the Peking legation.[6] Coolidge was appointed Minister to Nicaragua in 1908, at a time the relationship between the United States and Nicaragua was poor, and he arrived in Managua in August. He resigned in anger when no apology was forthcoming after a demonstration, ostensibly celebrating Taft\'s victory in the election, was disbanded and a U.S. flag confiscated in the process, despite an effort on the part of the State Department to calm him down. Coolidge died on February 28, 1936 in Boston, Massachusetts and was buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Boston and Providence Railroad was a railroad company in the states of Massachusetts and Rhode Island which connected its namesake cities. It opened in two sections in 1834 and 1835 - one of the first rail lines in the United States - with a more direct route into Providence built in 1847. Branches were built to Dedham in 1834, S Item ordered may not be exact piece shown. All original and authentic.