John M. Forbes Abolitionist Founder 54th Mass. Colored Troops, 1887 Signed Stock For Sale

John M. Forbes Abolitionist Founder 54th Massachusetts ColoredTroops, 1887 Signed RR Cert.

JOHN MURRAY FORBES (1813-1898): Radical Abolitionist, Lincoln elector 1860, entertained JOHNBROWN giving money & guns for the Kansas anti-Slave state forces, a memberof Massachusetts Governor Andrew’s “BLACK COMMITTEE” and a founder of thefamous COLORED 54th Massachusetts Infantry under Col. Robert Gould Shaw (movie“GLORY”) in the Civil War, Railroad Tycoon, philanthropist, etc.

Bold signature on “CHICAGO,BURLINGTON AND NORTHERN RAILROAD” stock certificate as Treasurer. Green& black, old time train top center & issued 1888 w/ usual folds, lightaging & punch cancel. Signature very readable! Please See ALL Pictures, otherwise…

VERY FINE

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