Stock Certificate of the Northern Pacific Railroad Company Issued to and Signed by NYSE President & Union General During the Civil War - Brayton Ives
Northwest Equipment Company of Minnesota. 5 shares. November 2, 1889. Issued to and signed on verso by Brayton Ives.
BRAYTON IVES (1840-1914): Brigadier General of volunteers in the Union Army. During the Civil War, he earned the rank through his leadership at Reams's Station, Deep Bottom, Five Forks, and Sayler's Creek. Ives was later the president of the New York Stock Exchange and the Northern Pacific Railroad, among other companies.
