Detroit, Monroe and Toledo Railroad Co. Signed by Henry Keep - Stock Certificate for Sale

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Detroit, Monroe and Toledo Railroad Co. Signed by Henry Keep - Stock Certificate For Sale

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Detroit, Monroe and Toledo Railroad Co. Signed by Henry Keep - Stock Certificate:
$130.00

Stock issued to Henry Keep and signed at back. Clipped corner and stain at stub. Henry Keep (June 22, 1818 \" July 30, 1869) was an American currency speculator, banker, stock speculator, and railroad financier who invested heavily in the Chicago and North Western Railway, Cleveland and Toledo Railroad, Michigan Southern and Northern Indiana Railroad, and New York Central Railroad. He was treasurer of the Michigan Southern and Northern Indiana Railroad from 1861 to 1863, and briefly president of the New York Central Railroad in 1866. Henry Keep was born on June 22, 1818, in Adams, New York, to Herman Chandler Keep and his wife, Dorothy (ne Kent). He had two sisters, Mary and Martha. He was a descendant of John Keep, and emigrant from the Kingdom of England who arrived in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1660 and was killed in 1676 during King Philip\'s War. He was also related to William Ezra Keep, a successful builder in Hartford, Connecticut. Keep had no schooling as a child. His father died in 1835 when Keep was just 17. His family was left impoverished and lost their home, so his mother turned herself and her children over to the county poorhouse. The county loaned children out as workers to local businessmen and farmers, if the employer provided a wage or some other means of improvement to the child. Keep was sent to work for Joseph Grammon, a local farmer who promised to send the boy to public school. Grammon failed to keep his word, beat the Henry mercilessly, and barely fed him. With $1.50 ($35 in 2020 do Item ordered may not be exact piece shown. All original and authentic.