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Northern Pacific Stock Issued To And Signed On Verso By General Mills Founder Charles Pillsbury

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Northern Pacific Stock Issued To And Signed On Verso By General Mills Founder Charles Pillsbury
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1884, New York. Stock certificate for 100 shares. Brown/Black. Engraved vignette of a steam locomotive at top center, nice portrait vignette of Frederick Billings at bottom. Issued to C. A. Pillsbury & Co. and signed for the company by CHARLES A. PILLSBURY (1842-1899), American businessman, built the largest flour-milling company in the world in the lat 19th century. Charles A. Pillsbury was born to a farming family in New Hampshire. After graduating from Dartmouth College in 1864, he spent several years in Montreal engaged in various business ventures. In 1869 he settled in Minneapolis and purchased an interest in a flour mill at the suggestion of his uncle John S. Pillsbury, a leading citizen of the town. In 1870 Charles Pillsbury, his uncle, and father formed a family partnership which became the nucleus of the Pillsbury milling empire. Punch and stamp cancelled. Extremely Fine.