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Vulcan Contract and Improvement Co. Signed by Jno. Echols - Stock Certificate - For Sale
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Vulcan Contract and Improvement Co. Signed by Jno. Echols - Stock Certificate - :
$240.00
Stock signed by Jno. Echols as president. Certificates #4, 5, 6 or 7 available! John Echols (March 20, 1823 \" May 24, 1896) was a general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. John Echols was born in Lynchburg, Virginia. He joined the Virginia Military Institute in 1840 and resigned in the next year; being made an honorary graduate in 1843. He received further education at Washington College and at Harvard College. A tall imposing man, standing 6 feet 4inches tall, Echols quickly became a leader among his peers. Echols married twice. His first wife was a sister of Senator Allen T. Caperton (also of what became West Virginia). After she died, he married Mrs. Mary Helen Cochran Reid, a widow from New York City. On becoming a lawyer in 1843 he settled in Union, Monroe County (now West Virginia). Echols represented Monroe County in the Virginia House of Delegates 1852\"1853 and in the Virginia Secession Convention of 1861. Both Echols and Allen T. Caperton voted for Virginia\'s secession from the United States on April 17, 1861 at the Richmond convention. When the secession ordinance was put to public vote on May 23 Monroe County voted 1,085 to 79 in favor of secession. Echols offered his service to Virginia. He gathered a group of volunteers and was commissioned as a lieutenant colonel. On May 6, 1861, General Item ordered may not be exact piece shown. All original and authentic.
Vulcan Contract and Improvement Co. Signed by Jno. Echols - Stock Certificate - $240.00
1925 Vulcan Iron Works Ad: H. Denburger Contracting, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania $17.76
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