Diamond Disc Shop, Inc. signed by Charles Edison - Stock Certificate - Autograph For Sale

Stock signed by Charles Edison as president. 50 cents revenue stamp! Certificate #4! Charles Edison (August 3, 1890 \" July 31, 1969) was an American politician, businessman, inventor and animal behaviorist. He was the Assistant and then United States Secretary of the Navy, and served as the 42nd Governor of New Jersey. Commonly known as \"Lord Edison\", he was a son of Thomas Edison and Mina Miller Edison. Born at his parents\' home, Glenmont, in West Orange, New Jersey, he graduated from the Hotchkiss School in Lakeville, Connecticut, in 1909. In 1915\"1916, he operated the 100-seat \"Little Thimble Theater\" with Guido Bruno. There they played the works of George Bernard Shaw and August Strindberg while Charles contributed verse to Bruno\'s Weekly under the pseudonym \"Tom Sleeper\". Late in 1915, he brought his players to Ellis Island to perform for Chief Clerk Augustus Sherman and more than four hundred detained immigrants. These avant-garde activities came to a halt when his father put him to work. He married Carolyn Hawkins on March 27, 1918. They had no children. For a number of years Charles Edison ran Edison Records. Charles became president of his father\'s company Thomas A. Edison, Inc. in 1927, and ran it until it was sold in 1957, when it merged with the McGraw Electric Company to form the McGraw-Edison Electric Company. Edison was board chairman of the merged company until he retired in 1961. On January 18, 1937, Item ordered may not be exact piece shown. All original and authentic.