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Beautifully engraved certificate from the Kanawha & Michigan Railway Company issued in 1890. This historic document was printed by the American Banknote Company and has an ornate border around it with a vignette of an indian woman and trains. This item is hand signed by the Company’s President ( Robert W. Kelley ) and Secretary and is over 112 years old. It is also signed on the verso by Stevenson Burke as president of the Toledo and Ohio Central Railway Company. BURKE, Stevenson, lawyer, born in St. Lawrence County, New York, 26 November, 1826. He was admitted to the bar in Elyria, Ohio, in 1848, was judge of common pleas in Lorain County from 1862 till 1869, and subsequently practiced law in Cleveland. He was attorney for the Erie railway company in the proceedings connected with the re-organization of the Atlantic and Great Western railroad, and acted with Chief-Justice Waite as arbitrator in the ease. He was counsel for some of the Oberlin rescuers, who forcibly released an escaped slave that had been seized by sheriff's officers from Kentucky. Despairing of an acquittal of his clients in Cleveland, he secured the arrest of the Kentuckians and their indictment for kidnapping in Lorain County, a proceeding that impelled the opposite counsel to agree to a discontinuance of the cases on both sides. In the Butzman and Mueller case in 1884 he delivered a notable argument against the constitutionality of the Scott liquor law. He was the agent employed by the managers of the New York Central railroad in the purchase of the New York, Chicago, and St. Louis, known as the "Nickel Plate " railroad, and has been the regular attorney of several railroad corporations and taken an active part in the management of railroads, becoming vice-president of the Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati, and Indianapolis, and the Indianapolis and St. Louis railroads, and president of the Cleveland and Mahoning Valley railroad. He was also interested in the Hocking valley coal-lands, and purchased for their owners the three railroads carrying coal from that field in June, 1881, and in 1885 the Ohio Central railroad. He was the founder of the Cleveland School of Art. The Kanawha and Michigan Railway (K and M) was chartered in April, 1890, and took over the Kanawha and Ohio ownership. Between 1903 and 1910, the K and M was controlled by The Toledo and Ohio Central Railway Company. In 1922 the Kanawha and Michigan leased its properties to the New York Central. In later years the NYC became the Penn Central and now is known as Conrail.
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