St. Louis, Alton and Terre Haute Railroad Company (Signed by George Peabody)
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Over 150 years old

Capital stock

February 26, 1886

Issued, canceled

Henry Seibert & Bros.

Hand signed

11 1/4" (w) by 7" (h)

Signed by George Peabody
George Foster Peabody (July 27, 1852 – March 4, 1938) was an American banker and philanthropist. He took part in the activities of the Reformed Church in Brooklyn Heights, New York City, where he met and became good friends with young investment banker Spencer Trask. On May 2, 1881, Peabody became a partner in the new firm of Spencer Trask & Company. During the 1880s and 1890s this investment house took a leading part in financing electric lighting corporations, beet sugar and other industrial enterprises, and railroad construction in the western United States and Mexico. Peabody himself handled most of the firm's railroad investments, working in close association with William J. Palmer. He also became a director in numerous corporations.
Peabody, his brother Charles Jones Peabody and Spencer Trask amassed a great portion of their wealth from the Edison Electric Company. Trask served as president of Edison Electric Illuminating, and when J. P. Morgan - protégé of New England businessman/philanthropist George Peabody - financier of Edison Electric, merged all into the General Electric Company in 1892, George Foster Peabody became a member of the GE board of directors.
Peabody had investments in Mexico, particularly in railways, along with many other U.S. financiers in the late nineteenth century. He was director of the Mexican National Railroad; and had holdings in Yucatán, where he was involved in commercial henequen exports, a natural twine used for binding wheat; was a director of the Intercontinental Rubber Company, founded by Bernard Baruch; and provided capital for mining enterprises.
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