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Cedar Grove Mansion Vicksburg,MS 1804 Bowed Silver Dollar Confederate Pensacola For Sale
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Cedar Grove Mansion Vicksburg,MS 1804 Bowed Silver Dollar Confederate Pensacola:
$250.00
George Marion Klein (Banker) - Born 9/24/1844, Served in the Confederacy 1862-1865, Married 7/30/1868 Louise Harrison Balfour, Lives at Bellevue Mansion on Klein Street (just kitchen house remains), Died 4/7/1923*Born in Vicksburg, Mississippi. President of Mississippi Valley Bank.Purchased the Davis 1804 dollar from Haseltine for $1200. Collection sold by Woodward May 21, 1888. The 1804 dollar realized $660 and was purchased by Robert Coulton Davis.He died at Vicksburg. Cedar Grove Mansion Vicksburg,MS 1804 Bowed Silver Dollar Confederate Pensacola Cedar Grove Mansion Vicksburg,MS 1804 Bowed Silver Dollar Confederate Pensacola Click images to enlarge Description Rare academic document by George Marion Klein of Vicksburg,Mississippi ( Warren County) concerning his creation of a Geometrical and Arithmetical equations while serving in the Confederate Army staioned in Pensacola,Florida. This document came out of a scrapbook that belonged to Klein which contained only documents and ephemera while serving in the Confederate Army. His life and career mirrored the life of Walter Mitty and is best known throughout Numismatic circles as one of the owners of the legandary 1804 Bowed Liberty Dollar.
This document (9\' 1/2 x 13\' 1/2 inches) is attached to the original scrapbook page and is signed by Klein circa 1861-63.
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(Banker) - Born 9/24/1844, Served in the Confederacy 1862-1865, Married 7/30/1868 Louise Harrison Balfour, Lives at Bellevue Mansion on Klein Street (just kitchen house remains), Died 4/7/1923
*Born in Vicksburg, Mississippi. President of Mississippi Valley Bank. Purchased the Davis 1804 dollar from Haseltine for $1200. Collection sold by Woodward May 21, 1888. The 1804 dollar realized $660 and was purchased by Robert Coulton Davis. He died at Vicksburg.American Numismatic Biographies author Pete Smith submitted this article on lost, unknown or unpublicized mystery collections. Thanks! Can readers add anything about these collectors or their collections? -Editor Unpublicized Mystery Collections In his book, The Rare Silver Dollars Dated 1804, Q. David Bowers describes two mysterious owners of the Davis 1804 silver dollar. In his era of the 1870\'s and 1880\'s, George Marion Klein of Vicksburg, Mississippi, was somewhat of a mystery man. He amassed a large cabinet of fine and rare coins, but was relatively unknown in numismatic circles. James H. T. McConnell, Jr. a specialist in security and investment analysis, has collected coins without publicizing his efforts. There is still another mystery that Bowers did not mention. George M. Klein Sr. (1844-1923) Although George Klein may have been relatively unknown in numismatic circles, he was very prominent in the Vicksburg area. George Marion Klein was born in Vicksburg. Mississippi, on July 5, 1844, the son of John Alexander Klein (1812-1884) and Elizabeth Bartley Day Klein (1826-1909). The family was wealthy and socially prominent. The father, John Alexander Klein, moved to Vicksburg in 1836. He established a jewelry business there and expanded into lumber investment. Around 1840 he built a home for his family he named Cedar Grove. George was the first of the couple\'s ten children. In recent years the Cedar Grove Mansion has been rehabilitated and turned into a bed and breakfast. George took one of his servants with him as he served in the Confederacy during the Civil War. After the war he attended Heidelberg University in what is now Germany. He married Louise Harrison Balfour (1848-1909) in 1868. They had eleven children, of which four predeceased him. After the war, John expanded his investments in railroads and banking. The Mississippi Valley bank was formed in November 1868 with a capitalization of $150,000. George M. Klein was cashier at the Mississippi Valley bank with his father as president until he retired in 1881. George was later president with his brother John A. Klein, Jr. as Cashier. In 1880 George succeeded his father as treasurer of the Church of the Holy Trinity of Vicksburg. The Mississippi Valley Bank issued bonds to finance completion of the church building. Grain speculation by A. K. Bonham & Co, of St. Louis resulted in large losses and the bank became insolvent in November of 1883. The bank was unable to pay the interest on the church bonds and George was replaced as church treasurer. This was just one of many unpaid creditors. The Mississippi Valley Bank was the largest bank in Vicksburg at the time and its failure caused great distress in the community. The church was scheduled to be sold at sale in 1887 to pay off the debts but was saved by a presale settlement. Klein vowed to make up all the losses and consigned his coin collection to pay off debts. He died at Vicksburg on December 22, 1923, and is buried at Cedar Hill Cemetery in Vicksburg with his parents, spouse and children. Another section of the cemetery is soldier\'s rest for thousands of Confederate troops who died in the siege of Vicksburg. Klein acquired the Davis 1804 dollar for $1200 from John Hazeltine in 1883. It was sold as part of the Vicksburg Collection by W. Elliott Woodward on March 21-25, 1888. With four Woodward sales, the Klein collection was dispersed.
* Please note photograph of George Klein DOES NOT come with your purchase of this document. Pictures sell!
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