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The Osage Carbon Company Issued To And Signed By O.W. Peabody

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The Osage Carbon Company Issued To And Signed By O.W. Peabody
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1890, Kansas. Stock certificate for one share issued to and signed on verso by O.W. PEABODY. One of the founders of Kidder, Peabody & Co. Black / White. Vignette of miners working at top center. Blind embossed company seal. Stamp and punch cancellations do not affect Peabody’s signature. Following his graduation from Phillips Exeter Academy, a fifteen-year-old Oliver W. Peabody joined his brother Francis at a banking firm owned by Nathaniel Thayer. Leaving the firm in 1862 to serve in the Union Army, Oliver joined his brother and Kidder in the newly organized Kidder, Peabody and Company upon his return home. The Osage Carbon Company was the successor to The Osage Carbon, Coal and Mining Company, the first mining company to open a shaft in coal rich Osage City, Kansas. Employing six hundred men, The Osage Carbon Company mined an average of 750 tons of coal a day