Standard Oil Trust signed by W.H. Beardsley, Archbold, and Tilford - Stock Certi for Sale

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Standard Oil Trust signed by W.H. Beardsley, Archbold, and Tilford - Stock Certi:
$320.00

Stock issued to and signed at back by W.H. Beardsley. Also signed by J.D. Archbold as secretary and W.H. Tilford as attorney. Portraits and biographies for Archbold and Tilford included. Further research needed on Beardsley. Please specify color. John Dustin Archbold (July 26, 1848 in Leesburg, Ohio \" December 6, 1916 in Tarrytown, New York) was an American capitalist and one of the United States\' earliest oil refiners. His small oil company was bought out by John D Rockefeller\'s Standard Oil Company. Archbold rose rapidly at Standard Oil, handling many of the complex secret negotiations over the years. By 1882 he was Rockefeller\'s closest associate, and typically acted as the company\'s primary spokesman. Rockefeller after 1896 left business matters to Archbold while he pursued his philanthropy; as vice president Archbold effectively ran Standard Oil until his death in 1916. Inspired by Rockefeller\'s policies, Archbold\'s main goals were stabilization, efficiency, and minimizing waste in refining and distributing petroleum products. The company was broken up by the Supreme Court in 1911 into three dozen smaller operations, Archbold became president of the largest one, Standard Oil of New Jersey. Archbold was born to Methodist minister Reverend Israel Archbold and Frances Foster Dana (Archbold) in Leesburg, Ohio. After being educated in public schools, he moved to Pennsylvania by 1864. On February 20, 1870 Archbold married Annie Eliza Mills, \"daughter of Samuel Myers Mills of Titusville and Lavinia Jenkins. The couple had four children: Mary Lavina Archbold (b 1871) Anne Mills Archbold (b 1873), mother of John Dana Archbold Frances Dana Archbold (b 1875) John Foster Archbold (b 1877-1930), father of zoologist Richard Archbold In 1885, Archbold purchased a large mansion in Tarrytown, New York. The estate, called Cedar Cliff, was located at 279 S. Broadway just across from the Carmelite Transfiguration Church. In 1864 Archbold went to the north-west Pennsylvania oil fields and spent 11 years in the oil industry there. When John D. Rockefeller\'s Standard Oil Company began buying up refiners in this oil-rich region, many independent refiners felt squeezed out, and Archbold was among Standard\'s harshest and loudest critics. In 1885 after becoming skeptical of reports of oil discoveries in Oklahoma, he sold-out at a loss, saying Ill drink every gallon produced west of the Mississippi! Archbold was subsequently recruited by Rockefeller to Standard Oil, where he became a director and served as its vice-president and president until its dissolution in 1911. In 1911-1916 Archbold was president of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey. In 1886 Archbold became a member of the board of trustees of Syracuse University, and was the boards president from 1893 until his death in 1916. From 1893 to 1914, he contributed nearly $6,000,000 for eight buildings, including the full cost of Archbold Stadium (opened 1907, demolished 1978; the Carrier Dome was built on this site), Sims Hall (men\'s dormitory, 1907), Archbold Gymnasium (1908, nearly destroyed by fire in 1947, but still in use), and the oval athletic Item ordered may not be exact piece shown. All original and authentic.