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Robert Todd Lincoln Signed Pullman Passenger Car Stock Certificate |
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 100 shares of the Pullman Company. Signed by Robert Todd Lincoln as Chairman. September 23, 1912. Certificate #82006.
Archival framing.
On exhibit at Fraunces Tavern Restaurant in Manhattan. Inventory# 12001 $1,250
Historical Background: The eldest and only surviving child of the President, Robert Todd Lincoln (1843-1926) became a millionaire corporate attorney. Strongly opposed to the growth in the trade union movement, he supported his friend, the railroad passenger-car manufacturer George Pullman during the Pullman Strike . At the latter's 1897 death, Lincoln became president of the Pullman Company, retiring to the position of chairman of the board in 1911.
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