Description: The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company - Israel Cohen Original Capital Stock Receipt No. 3423 for 25 shares issued to Israel Cohen ( See Biography below) October 19, 1854. Certificate is in very fine condition and is signed by J J Atkinson, Treasurer of B&O and also by Israel Cohen on the reverse side. Receipt was cancelled November 2, 1854 as indicated on the front of the Receipt by two round red cancellation stamps. ISRAEL COHEN (1820-1875) Israel Cohen of Baltimore conducted an extensive stock brokerage business, was a founder of the Second Baltimore Stock Board and a Member of Mechanical Fire Co. Cohen was also a Director of the Pittsburg and Connellville Railway and was one of the original founders of the Maryland Academy of Art and the Academy of Music of which he was Secretary and Treasurer. His father was BENJAMIN I. COHEN (1797-1845), One of the foremost bankers in Baltimore. He was a member of the banking firm of Jacob I. Cohen Jr., and Brothers, and was influential in forming the first Baltimore Stock Board in 1838. Benjamin I. Cohen was active in creating sentiment for the passage of the Jew Bill and urged members of the House of Delegates to introduce a bill to extend to persons of the Jewish Religion, the same civil privileges that are allowed to other religious sects. Cohen also played a prominent role in the social life of Baltimore and was reputed to have been a violinist, a botanist, and a horticulturist. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad pioneered the concept of the common carrier railroad in 1827. The B&O was chartered in 1827, and construction on the main line began the next year. The first tickets for passenger excursions were sold in 1829, and the twenty-one kilometer (thirteen-mile) line from Baltimore to Ellicott Mills opened in 1830. Regular service was provided using horses for motive power, but by 1831, steam locomotives took over passenger trains, and horses were completely eliminated from freight service within the next few years. The Baltimore & Ohio was the first common carrier railroad chartered in the United States. It wasn’t the first in the world; that accolade belongs to the Stockton & Darlington and Manchester & Liverpool, both English, in 1825. The B&O sent its first engineers and financiers across the Atlantic to inspect and learn from these pioneer railways to learn the latest technology. The railroad was conceived as a means to capture western trade for the port of Baltimore. eal Cohen ( See Biography below) on March 26, 1852, Embossed Corporate Seal, Vignette of early locomotive with stage coach like passenger carriage. Certificate is in excellent condition and is over 171 years old. Certificate is signed by Thomas Swann as President of B&O. Swann later became Mayor of Baltimore, Governor of Maryland and was elected a US Senator from Maryland. ISRAEL COHEN (1820-1875) Israel Cohen of Baltimore conducted an extensive stock brokerage business, was a founder of the Second Baltimore Stock Board and a Member of Mechanical Fire Co. Cohen was also a Director of the Pittsburg and Connellville Railway and was one of the original founders of the Maryland Academy of Art and the Academy of Music of which he was Secretary and Treasurer. His father was BENJAMIN I. COHEN (1797-1845), One of the foremost bankers in Baltimore. He was a member of the banking firm of Jacob I. Cohen Jr., and Brothers, and was influential in forming the first Baltimore Stock Board in 1838. Benjamin I. Cohen was active in creating sentiment for the passage of the Jew Bill and urged members of the House of Delegates to introduce a bill to extend to persons of the Jewish Religion, the same civil privileges that are allowed to other religious sects. Cohen also played a prominent role in the social life of Baltimore and was reputed to have been a violinist, a botanist, and a horticulturist. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad pioneered the concept of the common carrier railroad in 1827. The B&O was chartered in 1827, and construction on the main line began the next year. The first tickets for passenger excursions were sold in 1829, and the twenty-one kilometer (thirteen-mile) line from Baltimore to Ellicott Mills opened in 1830. Regular service was provided using horses for motive power, but by 1831, steam locomotives took over passenger trains, and horses were completely eliminated from freight service within the next few years. The Baltimore & Ohio was the first common carrier railroad chartered in the United States. It wasn’t the first in the world; that accolade belongs to the Stockton & Darlington and Manchester & Liverpool, both English, in 1825. The B&O sent its first engineers and financiers across the Atlantic to inspect and learn from these pioneer railways to learn the latest technology. The railroad was conceived as a means to capture western trade for the port of Baltimore.
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