Document Signed by Dix John (4 results)

Condition: Fine. 1 leaf, 162 x 135 mm. Cashier's check of the Mechanics and Farmers' Bank made out to Erastus Corning, Mayor of Albany, in the amount of $50,000. Signed on recto by New York Secretary of State (and later Governor, Senatory, and Civil War General) John A. Dix, comptroller Azariah C. Flagg, and Surveyor General William Campbell. Endorsed on verso to chamberlain P.V. Shankland, and signed by Corning. A check $50,000 drawn on the Mechanics and Farmers Bank, payable to Erastus Corning as Mayor of Albany, and endorsed by him on verso. Corning was an American industrialist whose speculations in land, manufacturing, and transportation made him one of the wealthiest men in the United States. His Albany Iron Works provided material for the Union army during the Civil War. The Erie Canal, which linked the Hudson River to Lake Erie, was the Interstate of its day, and the foundation of New York's economic expansion in the first half of the 19th century. The railroads rendered it obsolete, but in 1836 the city fathers of Albany, apparently ignoring that writing on the wall, raised funds to expand the canal from 40 feet wide to 70, and deepen it from 4 feet to 7, enabling it to handle much larger boats carrying much more cargo.

Single Sheet. A bank draft on the Mechanics' & Farmers' Bank dated Feb. 9, 1835 in the amount of $75.21 for "Tolls Refunded" to Simon M. Holden. Signed by John A. Dix. Dix was a Governor of New York, US Senator, Secretary of the Treasury, and future Civil War General. Azariah C. Flagg. Drawn on the Canal Fund, this document is signed by four Commissioners of the Canal Fund--Dix, Flagg, Abraham Keyser, and William Campbell. Two small internal circular closed tears, (not especially objectionable). The verso of the document has written: "Chemung Canal" Could this be the same Simon M. Holden who was murdered in Washtenaw County, Michigan during a robbery where $500 was stolen from him? ; 5" x 6.25"; Signed by All Authors.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. ("John A. Dix, Maj Gen"), New York, May 31, 1864 ("Commutation of Quarters and Fuel"); also signed by the Acting Assistant Quartermaster, and completed chiefly in his hand. Square 8vo sheet (folded to form 3pp.), 1 1/2pp. (recto and verso). Signed by Author(s).

Major general in charge of the Department of Maryland and the East; as treasury secretary, he is credited with saying, "If anyone attempts to haul down the American flag, shoot him on the spot!" Printed DS, 1p, 13" X 6¼", New York, NY, n.d. Fine. Stock certificate ("Construction Stock"), never filled in or issued, for shares in the Mississippi & Missouri Railroad Company, bearing a superb, bold Dix signature as president of the organization. Printed entirely in deep green, with a handsome vignette depicting a puffing locomotive crossing the plains amidst a herd of stampeding buffalo, with several Indians in the foreground (one horseback) observing; three smaller vignettes depict a steamboat, an Indian warrior and an Indian mother with her child. A striking piece.