Dubuque & Sioux City Railway Company Stock Certificate

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Dubuque & Sioux City Railway Company - 1876 - Issued to Edward T.R. Applegate

Dubuque & Sioux City Railway Company Stock Certificate - 1876

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This Dubuque & Sioux City Railway Company Stock Certificate was issued to Edward T. R. Applegate in 1876 and signed by him of the back.

Edward T. R. Applegate was one of the original stockholders and directors of the First National Bank of Hightstown and a former director of the Pennsylvania, Slatington, and New England Railroad, and of the Hightstown-Perrineville Turnpike Company, for which he obtained his charter from the legislature. Applegate was a Democrat and served in the New Jersey Assembly in 1859 and 1860. He fathered the bill creating Washington Township and was chairman of the corporation committee and was selected as speaker of the House pro tem for two weeks. In 1877, he was appointed judge of the Mercer County Common Pleas by the late Governor Pedie and reappointment in 1882 by Governor Ludlow. Governor Newell commissioned him a major of the entire state militia prior to the Rebellion.