E.H. Rollins and Sons ( Banking house ) - Maine 1929

Beautifully engraved certificate from E.H. Rollins and Sons issued in 1929. This historic document was printed by the Boston Bank Note Company and has an ornate border around it with a vignette of an eagle perched on rocks. This item is hand signed by the Company's President and Treasurer and is over 76 years old.


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ROLLINS, Edward Henry, a Representative and a Senator from New Hampshire; born in Somersworth (Rollinsford), Strafford County, N.H., October 3, 1824; attended the common schools and academies in Dover, N.H., and South Berwick, Maine; engaged in mercantile pursuits at Concord, N.H.; member, State house of representatives 1855-1857, and served as speaker; elected as a Republican to the Thirty-seventh, Thirty-eighth, and Thirty-ninth Congresses (March 4, 1861-March 3, 1867); was not a candidate for renomination in 1866; chairman, Committee on Accounts (Thirty-eighth and Thirty-ninth Congresses); secretary and treasurer of the Union Pacific Railroad Co.; elected in 1876 as a Republican to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1877, to March 3, 1883; unsuccessful candidate for reelection; chairman, Committee on Manufactures (Forty-fifth Congress), Committee on Enrolled Bills (Forty-seventh Congress), Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds (Forty-seventh Congress); president of the Boston, Concord & Montreal Railroad Co. 1886-1889; founder of the First National Bank of Concord, N.H., and of the banking house of E. H. Rollins & Sons, of Boston, Mass.; died on Isle of Shoals, N.H., July 31, 1889; interment in Blossom Hill Cemetery, Concord, N.H.