April 12, 2024
1st Stock Cert Issued to Henry B Ledyard by Detroit Delray & Dearborn RR Co 1896
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Very rare! Certificate Number 1 for 5 shares at $100 each of Capital Stock of the Detroit, Delray and Dearborn Railroad Company issued to Henry B. Ledyard dated February 13, 1896. Signed by the Secretary and President of the railroad. Beautifully detailed vignette of an eagle with wings spread in the center of the document.Henry Ledyard (March 5, 1812 – June 7, 1880) was the mayor of Detroit, Michigan and a state senator, briefly served as assistant secretary under Secretary of State Lewis Cass, and was the president of the Newport Hospital and the Redwood Library in Newport, Rhode Island.Henry Ledyard was born in New York City March 5, 1812, the son of prominent New York lawyer Benjamin Ledyard and Susan French Livingston (the daughter of Revolutionary War Colonel and US Supreme Court justice Henry Brockholst Livingston and granddaughter of New Jersey governor William Livingston). Henry Ledyard graduated from Columbia College in 1830, and began practicing law in New York. When Lewis Cass was appointed Minister to France, Ledyard accompanied him to Paris, eventually becoming chargé d’affaires of the embassy.
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