James B. Colgate

1890, Washington and Alaska. 10 ¾" x 7".”Stock certificate for five shares of the Puget Sound and Alaska Steamship Company. Brown/Black. Lovely engraved vignette of a steamship in rough seas at top center. Printed by Franklin Bank Note Company. Issued to and signed on verso by James B. Colgate. JAMES B. COLGATE, banker, born in New York city March 4, 1818. He was the son of William Colgate, who came to America in 1798, settled in Harford county, Maryland and in 1804, moved to New York, where he established the now widely known industry of manufacturing Colgate's soaps.