Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway Co. - $1,000 Bond - Railroa for Sale

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Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway Co. - $1,000 Bond - Railroa:
$59.00

$1,000 4% Unissued Gold Bond printed by Franklin Bank Note CO., NY. Signed by E.V.W. Rossiter as president. Edward Van Wyck Rossiter(1844-1910)Presidents clerk for Hudson River Railroad; Treasurers office clerk for Hudson River Railroad 1860-67; cashier New York & Harlem Railroad 1867-77. Later treasurer of same company, June 1883 became treasurer and from November 1900 had been Vice President of New York Central and Hudson River Railroad, New York & Harlem Railroad as well as of almost all the lines affiliated with the New York Central Company, also Lincoln National Bank and Lincoln Safe Deposit Company. The Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway, also known as the Big Four Railroad and commonly abbreviated CCC&StL, was a railroad company in the Midwestern United States. It operated in affiliation with the New York Central system. Its primary routes were in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio. At the end of 1925 it reported 2,391 route-miles and 4,608 track-miles; that year it carried 8180 million net ton-miles of revenue freight and 488 million passenger-miles.[ The railroad was formed on June 30, 1889, by the merger of the Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati and Indianapolis Railway, the Cincinnati, Indianapolis, St. Louis and Chicago Railway and the Indianapolis and St. Louis Railway. The following year, the company gained control of the former Indiana, Bloomington and Western Railway (through the foreclosed Ohio, Indiana and Western Railway and through an operating agreement with the Peoria and Eastern Railway). In 1906, the Big Four was acquired by the Item ordered may not be exact piece shown. All original and authentic.