Duluth and Manitoba Railroad Co. Issued to and Signed by Wm. Nelson Cromwell - A for Sale

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Duluth and Manitoba Railroad Co. Issued to and Signed by Wm. Nelson Cromwell - A For Sale

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Duluth and Manitoba Railroad Co. Issued to and Signed by Wm. Nelson Cromwell - A:
$570.00

Stock issued to and signed by Wm. Nelson Cromwell on the back. Important! William Nelson Cromwell (January 17, 1854 " July 19, 1948) was an American attorney active in promotion of the Panama Canal and other major ventures especially in cooperation with Philippe Bunau-Varilla. He was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, in an Episcopalian household, by his mother, Sarah M. Brokaw, a Civil War widow. His father, John Nelson Cromwell, died in the Battle of Vicksburg. He worked as an accountant for the attorney Algernon Sydney Sullivan, who paid for his education at Columbia Law School and made him a partner in Sullivan & Cromwell in 1879. In 1898 the chief of the French Canal Syndicate (a group that owned large swathes of land across Panama), Philippe Bunau-Varilla, hired him to lobby the US Congress to build a canal across Panama, and not across Nicaragua, as rivals would have it. Cromwell showed that Nicaragua had an active volcano. On June 19, 1902, three days after senators received stamps showing volcanic activity in Nicaragua they voted for the Panama route for the canal. For his lobbying efforts, he received the sum of $800,000. (about 20 million USD today). After the Item ordered may not be exact piece shown. All original and authentic.