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JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER

1888, Minnesota. Stock certificate for 500 shares. BrownBlack. Issued to and signed on verso by John D. Rockefeller. The Northwest Equipment Company was organized in 1888. Many of the company founders and shareholders rank among the elite of the banking and business world including John D. Rockefeller and a number of other Standard Oil Company dignitaries. The company leased to the Northern Pacific a large number of steam locomotives and a wide variety of passenger and express cars, finally selling all of its equipment to the reorganized Northern Pacific Railway Company in 1897. Light punch cancellations slightly affecting the "l" in "Rockefeller's" signature.