Louisville and Northern Railway and Lighting Co. Stock - SAMUEL INSULL SR

Louisville and Northern Railway and Lighting Co. Stock - SAMUEL INSULL SR

K20 

SIGNED BY SAMUEL INSULL SR. 

State(s): Indiana

Years: 1907

Samuel Insull (1859-1938), Public Utilities Magnate. Became Thomas A. Edison's private secretary on coming to America in 1881 and advanced to Presidency of Chicago Edison Co., 1892. In the Utilities business he initiated many new techniques and concepts which became basic economic principles of the electric power industry. By 1907 Chicago's electricity was entirely Insull-operated. Later, he became overextended financially and the Insull empire collapsed in 1932. He fled to Europe but returned and was acquitted of mail fraud, bankruptcy and embezzlement charges.  1906-07, Stock. Nice Signature. 

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