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Baltimore & Philadelphia Steamboat Co. 1892 I/U Stock Certificate Signed by John Cadwalader as Presi

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Baltimore & Philadelphia Steamboat Co. 1892 I/U Stock Certificate Signed by John Cadwalader as Presi
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Maryland, 1892. 6 Shares I/U Capital Stock Certificate, Black text with black border. VF condition. John, son of Judge John and Henrietta Maria (Bancker) Cadwalader, was born in Philadelphia, June 27, 1843. He entered the University of Pennsylvania, graduated A.B., class of 1862, received A.M. in course in 1865. He was admitted to the Philadelphia bar in 1864 and practiced in all State and Federal courts of the district. He acquired large financial interests, and was identified with many Philadelphia institutions, philanthropic, patriotic and social, and from 1889 to 1897 was president of the Trust Company of North America. He was president of the Philadelphia and Baltimore Steamboat Company; manager and president of Philadelphia Institution for the Blind; served as school director, 1875-1885; was collector of the Port of Philadelphia, 1885-1889, appointed by President Cleveland; was jury commissioner. United States Circuit Court; and in all things honorable, upright and honored. Through the distinguished service of his ancestors he gained admission to the patriotic orders, and was president-general of the Society of the War of 1812, and belonged to the Pennsylvania Society, Sons of the Revolution. He was also a member of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, the American Philosophical Society, and vice-president of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, serving as a member of the council. In political faith he was a Democrat. He belonged to the Metropolitan Club of Washington, the University of Philadelphia, of which he was president; the Rittenhouse, Art. Penn and Philadelphia Country.