Second National Petroleum Co. - 1866 dated Stock Certificate (Uncanceled)

Stock printed by Major & Knapp Eng. Mfg. & Lith., N.Y. issued to Charles Pratt but not signed. Great colors in gold, green and red with 2 vignettes! Oil scene on back also in green.

Charles Pratt (October 2, 1830 – May 4, 1891) was an American businessman. Pratt was a pioneer of the U.S. petroleum industry, and he established his kerosene refinery Astral Oil Works in Brooklyn, New York. He then lived with his growing family in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn. He recruited Henry H. Rogers into his business, forming Charles Pratt and Company in 1867. Seven years later, Pratt and Rogers agreed to join John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil. An advocate of education, Pratt founded and endowed the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, now a renowned art college. He and his children built country estates in Glen Cove, New York, which became known as the Gold Coast in the 1920s on the North Shore of Long Island. In 1916, Standard Oil had a steamship tanker, the first of its class, built at Newport News, Virginia, and it was named in honor of Pratt. Read more at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Pratt