Description: Stock Transfer issued to Henry B. Ledyard and signed by him. Henry Brockholst Ledyard, Sr. (March 5, 1812 " June 7, 1880) was the mayor of Detroit, Michigan and a state senator, briefly served as assistant secretary under Secretary of State Lewis Cass, and was the president of the Newport Hospital and the Redwood Library in Newport, Rhode Island. Ledyard was born in New York City on March 5, 1812, the son of prominent New York lawyer Benjamin Ledyard (1779"1812) and Susan French Livingston (1789"1864). His mother was the daughter of Revolutionary War Colonel and US Supreme Court justice Henry Brockholst Livingston (1757"1823) and granddaughter of New Jersey governor William Livingston. Ledyard graduated from Columbia College in 1830, and began practicing law in New York. When Lewis Cass was appointed Minister to France, Ledyard accompanied him to Paris, eventually becoming charg daffaires of the embassy. Ledyard returned to the United States in 1844 and moved to Detroit, where he was active in the city and managed Cass's property holdings. He was one of the founders of the State Savings Bank, one of the original promoters of the Elmwood Cemetery, and was a member of the Board of Education. He organized and promoted the first plank road company in Michigan, and was inv Item ordered may not be exact piece shown. All original and authentic.
Price: 111 USD
Location: Portsmouth, New Hampshire
End Time: 2024-10-15T19:30:14.000Z
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