1869 Sheet of 3 Transfers for Syracuse, Binghamton & New York Railroad Co. Transferred to Percy R. Pyne, Moses Taylor and William E. Dodge

Sheet of 3 Transfers Issued to Percy R. Pyne, Moses Taylor and Wm. E. Dodge. Not signed. Rare!

William Earl Dodge Sr. (September 4, 1805 – February 9, 1883) was an American businessman, politician, and activist. He was referred to as one of the "Merchant Princes" of Wall Street in the years leading up to the American Civil War. Dodge saw slavery as an evil to be peaceably removed, but not to be interfered with where it existed. He was a Native American rights activist and served as the president of the National Temperance Society from 1865 to 1883. Dodge represented New York's 8th congressional district in the United States Congress for a portion of the 39th United States Congress in 1866–1867 and was a founding member of the YMCA of the US. Read more at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_E._Dodge

Percy Rivington Pyne I (March 8, 1820 – February 14, 1895) was a migrant from England to the United States. He was president of City National Bank, a director of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad, and a director of the New Jersey Zinc Company. Read more at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Rivington_Pyne_I

Moses Taylor (January 11, 1806 – May 23, 1882) was a 19th-century New York merchant and banker and one of the wealthiest men of that century. At his death, his estate was reported to be worth $70 million, or about $2.1 billion in today's dollars. He controlled the National City Bank of New York (later to become Citibank), the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western railroad, and the Moses Taylor & Co. import business, and he held numerous other investments in railroads and industry. Read more at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses_Taylor

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