C. W. Harkness signed Mahoning Coal Railroad - Stock Certificate - Autographed S for Sale

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C. W. Harkness signed Mahoning Coal Railroad - Stock Certificate - Autographed S For Sale

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C. W. Harkness signed Mahoning Coal Railroad - Stock Certificate - Autographed S:
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Charles William Harkness (1860-1916), Lawyer, A.B., Yale, and Columbia Law School. Law practice in New York City 1890s, Director of the Southern Pacific Co. C.M. & St. P. Railway, B & O Railroad. Railroad stock dated 1901-13, issued to and signed at back by Harkness with bold vignette by American Bank Note Co., NY. Great!! The Mahoning Coal Railroad (MCR) was a railroad line in the U.S. states of Ohio and Pennsylvania. Incorporated in 1871, it largely linked Youngstown, Ohio, with Andover, Ohio. It had a major branch into Sharon, Pennsylvania, and several small branches and spurs to coal mines and iron works along the Ohio-Pennsylvania border. The railroad leased itself to the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway in 1873. The lease was assumed by the New York Central Railroad in 1914, when that company consolidated with the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern. The New York Central merged with the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1968 to create the Penn Central. Despite abandonment of much track, bankruptcy of the Penn Central in 1970 eventually caused the MCR's dissolution on January 7, 1982. The Mahoning Coal Railroad Company was incorporated in the states of Ohio and Pennsylvania on February 25, 1871, with a capital investment of $70,000 ($1,500,000 in 2019 dollars). The Cleveland-based company received a charter to build a line from Youngstown, Ohio, to Brookfield Township in Trumbull County, Ohio. On December 9, 1871, a supplement to the charter was obtained allowing the company to build a line from Item ordered may not be exact piece shown. All original and authentic.