Anthony J. Drexel

1877, Minnesota. 11 ¾” x 7 ¾” stock certificate for 1048 shares. Black. Lovely triple-vignetted certificate depicting a steam locomotive at center flanked by steamboats at both sides. Engraved by American Bank Note Company. Issued to and signed on verso by Anthony J. Drexel. Anthony Joseph Drexel, banker, Philadelphia, Pa., born in that city, in 1826, died in Carlsbad, Austria, June 30, 1893. Anthony entered the bank at thirteen, in the old fashion way, and received a sound business training, becoming in time a partner. Mr. Drexel exhibited from an early date enterprise, accuracy of judgement and conservatism of temperament, and rapidly rose to the highest rank among bankers in the United States. The Paris bank of Drexel, Harjes & Co. was founded in 1868, and the New York branch of Drexel, Morgan & Co., in 1871.