New York Central Niagara River Railroad Co. Signed by Chauncey M. Depew - Stock for Sale

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New York Central Niagara River Railroad Co. Signed by Chauncey M. Depew - Stock :
$275.00

Stock signed by Chauncey M. Depew and E.V.W. Rossiter. 9 issued signed by Depew. Rare! Chauncey Mitchell Depew (April 23, 1834" April 5, 1928) was an American attorney, businessman, and Republican politician. He is best remembered for his two terms as United States Senator from New York and for his work for Cornelius Vanderbilt, as an attorney and as president of the New York Central Railroad System. Depew was born on April 23, 1834, to Isaac Depew (1800"69) and Martha Minot (Mitchell) Depew (1810"85). Depew's father was a merchant and farmer who pioneered river transportation between Peekskill and New York and was descended from Franois DuPuy, a French Huguenot who purchased land from natives at the present site of Peekskill. Through his mother, Depew was descended from Rev. Josiah Sherman, who served as a chaplain with rank of captain in the Revolutionary War and who was the brother of American founding father Roger Sherman and Rev. Charles Chauncey, the second president of Harvard College. Depew attended Peekskill Military Academy for 12 years before matriculating at Yale College in 1852. At Yale, Depew joined many clubs and won several honors. He won second dispute appointments in his junior and senior years and was an honored speaker at Junior Exhibition and Commencement. He joined the Thulia Boat Club, Kappa Sigma Epsilon, Kappa Sigma Theta, Psi Upsilon, and Skull and Bones. He served as third president of the Linonian Society. At Yale, he was a classmate of two future United States Supreme Court Justices, David Josiah Brewer and Henry Billings Brown. He graduated in 1856. After graduating from Yale, Depew apprenticed in the office of Edward Wells in Peekskill and read law with William Nelson. He was admitted to the New York state bar in March 1858 and opened an office in Peekskill, where he practiced until 1861. For a Item ordered may not be exact piece shown. All original and authentic.