Western Maryland Railway Co. issued to J. Sterling Rockefeller - Stock Certifica for Sale

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Western Maryland Railway Co. issued to J. Sterling Rockefeller - Stock Certifica For Sale

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Western Maryland Railway Co. issued to J. Sterling Rockefeller - Stock Certifica:
$108.00

Stock issued to and signed by J. Sterling Rockefeller. John Sterling Rockefeller (1904 " 1988) was an American philanthropist, conservationist, and amateur ornithologist. He purchased Kent Island in the Bay of Fundy in order to establish a bird sanctuary, and later donated the island to Bowdoin College for use as a research station. John Sterling Rockefeller was a member of the wealthy Rockefeller family. He was the grandson of William Avery Rockefeller and the grand-nephew of John D. Rockefeller. He was the fourth of five children of William Goodsell Rockefeller. His maternal grandfather was the investor and banker James Stillman. Rockefeller attended the Taft School and Yale University, where he was a member of the Scroll and Key Society. He graduated from Yale in 1928. In July 1928 Rockefeller, his Yale classmate Charles B. G. Murphy, and the Canadian collector and taxidermist Allan Moses went to Africa on an ornithological expedition to collect specimens for the American Museum of Natural History. The survey was funded by a grant of approximately $150,000 from the Rockefeller Foundation. The main goal of the expedition was to find and collect the rare Grauer's broadbill, which was known only by one 1908 specimen in the Walter Rothschild Zoological Museum in England, and which had eluded collectors for twenty years. On July 26, 1929, in a mountainous area at the northern end of Item ordered may not be exact piece shown. All original and authentic.