Collectible Stocks and Bonds from North American Railroads
by Terry Cox
Celebrity Autographs

 

NOTICE: The autographs listed here are signatures of celebrities known to have signed stocks and bonds from North American railroads.

Click on any autograph to see a short biography and a list of
all known occurrences on railroad-related stocks and bonds.

Autograph samples are available for some celebrities. Please
help by sending additional examples you may have.

See selection critera for an explanation of the types of celebrities listed here. See about autographs for a discussion about what consitutes a valuable autograph. Keep perspective. Remember, only a TINY percentage of signatures have collectible value. Also remember, having a famous last name does not necessarily confer importance to children, siblings, parents, or more distantly-removed relatives.

CelebrityLived
Adams, A. Sherman1899-1986 
Adams, Alvin1804-1877 
Adams, Charles Francis Jr   (Signature sample available)1835-1915 
Addams, Jane1860-1935 
Alexander, Edward Porter1835-1910 
Allison, William Boyd   (Signature sample available)1829-1908 
Almonte, Juan Nepomuceno   (Signature sample available)1803-1869 
Ames, Frank M.1833-1898 
Ames, Frederick   (Signature sample available) 
Ames, Oakes   (Signature sample available)1804-1873 
Ames, Oliver   (Signature sample available)1807-1877 
Ames, Oliver II   (Signature sample available)1831-1895 
Andrews, Wallace C.   (Signature sample available)1835-1899 
Archbold, John D.1848-1916 
Armour, Herman Ossian1827-1901 
Astor, John Jacob   (Signature sample available)1763-1848 
Astor, John Jacob IV1864-1912 
Astor, William Backhouse1792-1875 
Astor, William Waldorf   (Signature sample available)1848-1919 
Auchincloss, John W. 
Bache, Jules Semon   (Signature sample available)1861-1944 
Baer, Max1909-1959 
Baker, George Fisher1840-1931 
Bancroft, George1800-1891 
Banks, Robert Tunstall   (Signature sample available)1822-1901 
Barger, Samuel F. 
Baruch, Bernard Mannes1870-1965 
Beach, Alfred E.1826-1896 
Beauregard, Gen. Pierre Gustave Toutant   (Signature sample available)1818-1893 
Beecher, Henry Ward1813-1887 
Belmont, August1816-1890 
Belmont, Augustus M. Jr.1853-1924 
Berlin, Irving1888-1992 
Berwind, Edward Julius1848-1936 
Billings, Frederick   (Signature sample available)1823-1890 
Bishop, Heber Reginald1840-1902 
Blair, John Insley   (Signature sample available)1802-1899 
Boeing, William E.1881-1956 
Bowdoin, George Sullivan1833-1913 
Branch, Lawrence O'Bryan   (Signature sample available)1820-1862 
Brandeis, Louis Dembitz1856-1941 
Brewster, B. Benjamin   (Signature sample available)1816- 
Browning, Matthew S.1859-1923 
Brundage, Avery1887-1975 
Bullock, Rufus Brown1834-1907 
Burnside, Ambrose Everett   (Signature sample available)1824-1881 
Butler, Benjamin Franklin1818-1893 
Butterfield, John   (Signature sample available)1801-1869 
Carnegie, Andrew   (Signature sample available)1835-1919 
Casement, John Stephen   (Signature sample available) 
Cassatt, Alexander Johnston1839-1906 
Clark, C.C. 
Clark, Horace Francis   (Signature sample available)1815-1873 
Clark, Silas H.H. 
Clark, William Andrews   (Signature sample available)1839-1925 
Clews, Henry   (Signature sample available)1834-1923 
Colfax, Schuyler   (Signature sample available)1823-1885 
Cooke, Jay   (Signature sample available)1821-1905 
Cooke, Jay Jr. 
Cooper, Edward1824-1905 
Cooper, Peter   (Signature sample available)1791-1883 
Cornell, Ezra   (Signature sample available)1807-1874 
Corning, Erastus   (Signature sample available)1794-1872 
Corse, John Murry1835-1893 
Cox, William Ruffin1832-1919 
Crocker, Charles   (Signature sample available)1822-1888 
Crocker, Charles Frederick1854-1897 
Crocker, Uriel   (Signature sample available)1796-1887 
Cruft, Charles?-1883 
Cushman, Charlotte Saunders   (Signature sample available)1816-1876 
Darrow, Clarence Seward1857-1938 
Dawes, Charles Gates1865-1951 
de Mille, Cecil B.1881-1959 
Delano, Franklin Hughes1813-1893 
Delano, Warren III1852-1920 
Depew, Chauncey Mitchell   (Signature sample available)1834-1928 
Devereux, John Henry   (Signature sample available)1832-1886 
Dillon, Sidney   (Signature sample available)1812-1892 
Disston, Frank 
Dix, John Adams   (Signature sample available)1798-1879 
Dodge, Grenville Mellen   (Signature sample available)1831-1916 
Dodge, William Earl   (Signature sample available)1805-1883 
Dows, David1814-1890 
Drake, Francis Marion   (Signature sample available)1830-1903 
Drayton, Thomas Fenwick   (Signature sample available)1808-1891 
Drew, Daniel1797-1879 
Drexel, Anthony Joseph1826-1893 
Dropsie, Moses Aaron   (Signature sample available)1821-1905 
Duke, James Buchanan   (Signature sample available)1856-1925 
duPont, Alexis Felix   (Signature sample available)1879-1948 
duPont, Alfred Irenee1864-1935 
duPont, Eugene E.1882-1966 
duPont, Francis I.1873-1942 
duPont, Henry Algernon   (Signature sample available)1838-1926 
duPont, Philip Francis1878-1928 
duPont, Pierre Samuel1870-1954 
duPont, Thomas Coleman1863-1930 
Durant, Thomas Clark (Doc)   (Signature sample available)1820-1885 
Eastman, George1854-1932 
Echols, John   (Signature sample available)1823-1896 
Edison, Thomas Alva1847-1931 
Eldridge, John S.   (Signature sample available) 
Elkins, William Lukens   (Signature sample available)1832-1903 
Endicott, William Crowninshield Jr   (Signature sample available)1860-1936 
Evarts, William Maxwell1818-1901 
Fairbanks, Charles Warren   (Signature sample available)1852-1918 
Fargo, James Congdell1829-1915 
Fargo, James F.1857-? 
Fargo, William George   (Signature sample available)1818-1881 
Farnam, Henry   (Signature sample available)1803-1883 
Field, Cyrus West   (Signature sample available)1819-1892 
Field, Marshall1835-1906 
Fillmore, Millard   (Signature sample available)1800-1874 
Fish, Hamilton   (Signature sample available)1808-1893 
Fish, Stuyvesant   (Signature sample available)1851-1923 
Fisk, James1834-1872 
Flagler, Henry Morrison   (Signature sample available)1830-1913 
Forbes, John Murray   (Signature sample available)1813-1898 
Forrest, Nathan Bedford   (Signature sample available)1821-1877 
Frankfurter, Felix1882-1965 
Frelinghuysen, Frederick Theodore1817-1885 
Fremont, John Charles   (Signature sample available)1813-1890 
Frick, Henry Clay   (Signature sample available)1849-1919 
Fyffe, Edward Pierce?-1865 
Gallatin, James 
Garrett, John Work   (Signature sample available)1820-1884 
Gary, Elbert H.   (Signature sample available)1846-1927 
Gates, John Warne1855-1911 
Gould, Edwin   (Signature sample available)1866-1933 
Gould, George Jay   (Signature sample available)1864-1923 
Gould, Jay   (Signature sample available)1836-1892 
Grace, William Russell1832-1904 
Grant, Frederick D.1850-1911 
Green, Edward H.1868-1936 
Green, Henrietta (Hetty) Howland Robinson1834-1916 
Grinnell, George Bird1849-1938 
Grow, Galusha Aaron   (Signature sample available)1824-1907 
Guggenheim, Meyer1828-1905 
Guggenheim, Murray1858-1939 
Hamlin, Hannibal   (Signature sample available)1809-1891 
Hanna, Marcus Alonzo1837-1904 
Harkness, Stephen V.1818-1888 
Harriman, Edward Henry   (Signature sample available)1848-1909 
Harriman, Oliver1862-1940 
Hatch, Rufus1832-1893 
Haupt, Herman1817-1905 
Hendricks, Thomas Andrews1819-1885 
Hill, James Jerome1838-1938 
Hobart, Garret Augustus1844-1899 
Holmes, Oliver Wendell Jr.1841-1935 
Hopkins, Johns1795-1873 
Hubbard, Gardiner Greene1822-1897 
Huntington, Collis Potter   (Signature sample available)1821-1900 
Ingalls, Melville Ezra   (Signature sample available)1842-1914 
Innis, George1825-1895 
Insull, Samuel   (Signature sample available)1859-1938 
Insull, Samuel Jr.   (Signature sample available)?-1983 
Irving, Washington   (Signature sample available)1783-1859 
Jackson, Henry Rootes1820-1898 
Jackson, William Henry1843-1942 
Javits, Jacob Koppel1904-1986 
Jay, Peter Augustus1776-1843 
Jerome, Addison G. 
Jerome, Leonard Walter1817-1891 
Jervis, John Bloomfield   (Signature sample available)1795-1885 
Jesup, Morris Ketchum   (Signature sample available)1830-1908 
Jones, Benjamin Franklin1824-1903 
Joy, James Frederick   (Signature sample available)1810-1896 
Judan, Theodore Dehone1826-1863 
Judd, Norman Buell   (Signature sample available)1815-1878 
Keep, Henry   (Signature sample available)1818-1869 
Kennedy, John S.   (Signature sample available)1830-1909 
Kent, Rockwell1882-1971 
Kidder, Henry P.1823-1886 
Kneas, Strickland   (Signature sample available)1821-1884 
Kress, Samuel Henry1863-1955 
Lanier, Charles D.   (Signature sample available)1837-1926 
Lanier, James Franklin Doughty1800-1881 
Lincoln, Robert Todd   (Signature sample available)1843-1926 
Little, Jacob   (Signature sample available) 
Lodge, Henry Cabot   (Signature sample available)1850-1924 
Logan, Thomas Muldrup1840-1914 
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth   (Signature sample available)1807-1882 
Longstreet, James   (Signature sample available)1821-1904 
Lorillard, Pierre1833-1901 
Loveland, William Austin Hamilton1826-1894 
Low, Seth1850-1916 
MacKenzie, Sir William1849-1923 
Mahone, William   (Signature sample available)1826-1895 
Mann, Colonel William D'Alton   (Signature sample available)1839-1920 
Mann, Sir Donald1853-1934 
Mason, Roswell B.1805-1892 
Mayer, Louis Burt1885-1957 
McAdoo, William Gibbs1863-1941 
McComb, Colonel Henry Simpson 
McKim, Charles Follen1847-1909 
McLane, Louis1786-1857 
Mears, Otto   (Signature sample available)1840-1931 
Mellen, Charles Sanger   (Signature sample available)1851-1927 
Mellon, Andrew William   (Signature sample available)1855-1937 
Mellon, Richard Beatty1858-1932 
Mellon, William Larimer1868-1949 
Memminger, Christopher Gustavus1803-1888 
Mergenthaler, Ottmar1854-1899 
Mills, Darius Ogden1825-1910 
Mills, Ogden Livingston   (Signature sample available)1884-1937 
Moffat, David H.   (Signature sample available)1839-1911 
Morgan, Edwin Denison1811-1883 
Morgan, John Pierpont   (Signature sample available)1837-1913 
Morgan, Junius Spencer1813-1890 
Morris, Gouverneur Jr.1813-1888 
Morse, Samuel Finley Breese1791-1872 
Morton, Levi Parsons   (Signature sample available)1824-1920 
Myers, General William1830-1887 
Negley, James Jr. 
Negley, James Scott   (Signature sample available)1826-1901 
Oppenheimer, Henry   (Signature sample available) 
Oppenheimer, Julius Robert1904-1967 
Page, Richard Lucian1807-1901 
Paine, Charles1799-1853 
Palmer, William Jackson1836-1909 
Patten, James A. 
Payne, Oliver Hazard1839-1917 
Peabody, George Foster   (Signature sample available)1852-1938 
Pershing, John Joseph1860-1948 
Phipps, Henry1839-1930 
Pidgeon, Walter   (Signature sample available)1898-1984 
Pillsbury, John Sargent1827-1901 
Pioche, Francois Louis Alfred1818-1872 
Platt, Thomas Collier1833-1910 
Pomeroy, Marcus Mills (Brick)   (Signature sample available)1833-1896 
Poor, Henry Varnum1812-1905 
Porter, Horace   (Signature sample available)1837-1921 
Porter, James Davis   (Signature sample available)1828-1912 
Powderly, Terence1849-1924 
Pratt, Charles1830-1891 
Pratt, Enoch1808-1896 
Procter, William Cooper   (Signature sample available)1862-1934 
Pullman, George Mortimer   (Signature sample available)1831-1897 
Pullman, Harriet (Hattie) Sanger 
Quincy, Josiah Jr.1772-1864 
Reynolds, Richard Joshua1850-1918 
Rice, William Marsh1816-1900 
Ringling, John1866-1936 
Roberts, George 
Robinson, Edward Mott1800-1865 
Rockefeller, Frank   (Signature sample available) 
Rockefeller, James Stillman   (Signature sample available)1902- 
Rockefeller, John Davison   (Signature sample available)1839-1937 
Rockefeller, John Davison Jr.1874-1960 
Rockefeller, William   (Signature sample available)1841-1922 
Roebling, Emily Warren1843-1903 
Roebling, Washington Augustus   (Signature sample available)1837-1926 
Rogers, Henry Huttleston1840-1909 
Roman, André Bienvenu1795-1866 
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano   (Signature sample available)1882-1945 
Roosevelt, James A.1795-1875 
Roosevelt, James Roosevelt1878-1927 
Roosevelt, Sara Delano   (Signature sample available)1854-1941 
Rothschild, Edmond de1845-1934 
Rothschild, Otto 
Ryan, Thomas Fortune1851-1928 
Sachs, Paul Joseph1878-1965 
Sage, Russell   (Signature sample available)1816-1906 
Saks, Andrew 
Sayre, Robert Heysham   (Signature sample available)1824-1907 
Schell, Augustus   (Signature sample available)1812-1884 
Schliemann, Heinrich (Henry)1822-1890 
Schurz, Carl1829-1906 
Schuyler, Robert   (Signature sample available) 
Schwab, Charles Michael1862-1939 
Scott, Thomas Alexander   (Signature sample available)1823-1881 
Scribner, Arthur H.1859-1932 
Scribner, Charles1854-1930 
Searles, Dennis   (Signature sample available) 
Seibert, Henry 
Seligman, Isaac Newton1855-1917 
Seward, William Henry Jr1839-1920 
Sharon, William   (Signature sample available)1821-1885 
Sickel, Horatio Gates1817-1890 
Sloan, Samuel   (Signature sample available)1818-1907 
Smith, Caleb Blood   (Signature sample available)1808-1864 
Smith, Gerrit1797-1874 
Snyder, Simon 
Spreckels, Claus   (Signature sample available)1828-1908 
Stanford, Leland1824-1893 
Steinway, William1835-1896 
Stetson, Francis Lynde   (Signature sample available)1846-1920 
Stevens, Edwin Augustus1795-1868 
Stevens, Robert Livingston1787-1856 
Stillman, James   (Signature sample available)1850-1918 
Stratton, Winfield Scott1848-1902 
Szechenyi, Countess Gladys Moore Vanderbilt Laszlo1886-1965 
Taft, Charles P.1843-1929 
Taussig, Dr. William   (Signature sample available)1826-1913 
Taylor, Moses1803-1882 
Thaw, William   (Signature sample available)1818-1889 
Thompson, James Walter1847-1928 
Thomson, John Edgar   (Signature sample available)1808-1874 
Tiffany, Louis Comfort1848-1933 
Tilden, Samuel Jones   (Signature sample available)1814-1886 
Trask, Spencer   (Signature sample available)1844-1909 
Tunney, James Joseph (Gene)1898-1978 
Twombly, Florence Adelaide Vanderbilt1855-1953 
Twombly, Hamilton McKown?-1910 
Van Horne, Sir William Cornelius   (Signature sample available)1843-1915 
Vanderbilt, Alfred Gwynne1877-1915 
Vanderbilt, Alice Gwynne   (Signature sample available)1845-1934 
Vanderbilt, Alva Erskine Smith1853-1933 
Vanderbilt, Cornelius (The Commodore)1794-1877 
Vanderbilt, Cornelius II   (Signature sample available)1843-1899 
Vanderbilt, Frederick William   (Signature sample available)1856-1938 
Vanderbilt, George Washington   (Signature sample available)1862-1914 
Vanderbilt, Harold Stirling1884-1970 
Vanderbilt, Howard C. 
Vanderbilt, Jacob Hand   (Signature sample available)1807-1893 
Vanderbilt, Louise Holmes Anthony   (Signature sample available)1844-1926 
Vanderbilt, Maria Louisa Kissam1821-1896 
Vanderbilt, O. de G. 
Vanderbilt, Reginald Claypoole1880-1925 
Vanderbilt, William Henry   (Signature sample available)1821-1885 
Vanderbilt, William Kissam   (Signature sample available)1849-1920 
Vanderbilt, William Kissam Jr.   (Signature sample available)1878-1944 
Vassar, John Guy   (Signature sample available)1811-1888 
Vassar, Matthew 
Villard, Henry   (Signature sample available)1835-1900 
Wade, Jeptha Homer   (Signature sample available)1811-1890 
Wagner, Webster   (Signature sample available)1817-1882 
Warden, William Gray 
Warner, Adoniram Judson1834-1910 
Warren, General Augustus E. 
Washburn, William Drew1831-1912 
Watson, Thomas J.1874-1956 
Webb, William Seward   (Signature sample available) 
Weed, Thurlow1797-1882 
Wells, Henry   (Signature sample available)1805-1878 
West, Absolom Madden   (Signature sample available)1818-1894 
Weyerhaeuser, Frederick1834-1914 
Wheeler, William Almon1819-1887 
Whitney, George1885-? 
Whitney, Gertrude Vanderbilt1875-1942 
Whitney, Harry Payne   (Signature sample available)1872-1930 
Whitney, William Collins1841-1904 
Widener, George Dunton   (Signature sample available)~1862-1912 
Widener, Peter Arrell Brown   (Signature sample available)1834-1915 
Willard, Daniel1861-1942 
Windom, William1827-1891 
Winslow, Edward Francis1837-1914 
Withers, Jones M.1814-1890 
Wolcott, Henry Roger1846-1921 
Woodruff, Jonah   (Signature sample available) 
Wool, John Ellis1789-1869 
Wrigley, William, Jr.1861-1932 
Yerington, Henry Marvin1828-1910 
Young, John Willard1844-1924 
Zimmerman, Eugene   (Signature sample available)1845-1914 


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