General John A. Dix - Mississippi and Missouri Railroad Co. - Stock Certificate for Sale

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General John A. Dix - Mississippi and Missouri Railroad Co. - Stock Certificate For Sale

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General John A. Dix - Mississippi and Missouri Railroad Co. - Stock Certificate :
$230.00

Gorgeous stock dated 1850s of the Mississippi & Missouri Railroad Co. An exceptional Southern stock. Very slight hole cancel at signature. Also available with a different vignette at the bottom of cattle for $250 each. Some with 25 cents revenue stamp on front or back.Scarce! Please specify version. John A. Dix (1798-1879), Soldier, Lawyer, Statesman. An active career in military and politics, he became Secretary of the Treasury in 1861, his chief service to the Union. His dispatch of Jan. 29, 1861 to a treasury official in New Orleans which ended: If anyone attempts to haul down the American flag, shoot him on the spot! was a clarion call to the North. After turning over the job to Salmon P. Chase, he was made a major-general. After the war, he served as Minister to France and later Governor of New York. The Mississippi and Missouri Railroad (M&M Railroad) was the first railroad in Iowa and was chartered in 1853 to build a line between Davenport, Iowa, on the Mississippi River and Council Bluffs, Iowa, on the Missouri River and played an important role in the construction of the First Transcontinental Railroad. The line was originally created so that the Chicago and Rock Island Railroad could extend its line across the Mississippi River via Government Bridge, the first bridge to cross the Mississippi. Shortly after the bridge opened in 1856, a steamboat hit the bridge and steamboat companies sued to have the bridge dismantled. The M&M and Rock Island hired private attorney Abraham Lincoln to defend the bridge. The case was to work its way through the courts to reach U.S. Supreme Court in 1862 during the American Civil War when the court decided in the bridge's favor. During Lincoln's investigation into the case ,he traveled to Council Bl Item ordered may not be exact piece shown. All original and authentic.