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DUKE, JAMES B.

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DUKE, JAMES B.
(1856 - 1925) American businessman who made millions in the tobacco industry which later saw strict government regulation, constructed large-scale hydroelectric plants and infrastructures, and endowed what would later become Duke University. Exceptionally rare D.S. ""J. B. Duke"", 2pp. sm. folio, [n.p.], Nov. 23, 1921, a first mortgage 5% 40-year gold bond issued by the Piedmont and Northern Railway. Duke has signed the verso transferring the bond to his Duke Farms Company in New Jersey, signing as Trustee for his only child, Doris Duke. Fine condition.