James River Valley Railroad Co. signed by Clough, Merriam and Livingston - Autog For Sale

Stock Issued to and signed by W.P. Clough. Also signed by W.R. Merriam as president and Crawford Livingston as treasurer. William P. Clough, Chairman of the Board on the resignation of Howard Elliott as president and the creation of this new office. The creation of this office and the election of Mr. Clough to it are rather a concrete expression of the appreciation of the Northern Pacific directors for the responsiblility and executive work which Mr. Clough has been doing for the past 12 years than any radical change in these duties. William P. Clough was born in cortland County, New York and began railway work on October 1, 1880 as general cousel in the west for the Northern Pacific; occupying that position until June 1, 1887, when he entered the executive department of the St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba as assistant to the president, soon after becoming a director and second vice-president of that company. February 1, 1890, when the St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba was taken over by the Great Northern, he became a director of the latter company, and remained until the summer of 1901, when he resigned them to become a director of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy, and a director and member of the executive committee of the Northern Pacific, which positions he has continued to hold, and which, for the past 12 years, have chiefly occupied his time. On July 1, 1912, he became the first vice-president of the Northern Pacific. William Rush Merriam (July 26, 1849" February 18, 1931) was an American politician. The son of Minnesota House Speaker John L. Merriam, he served in the Minnesota House of Representatives in 1883 and 1887 and was the Speaker of the House in 1887. He served as the 11th Governor of Minnesota from January 9, 1889 to January 4, 1893. He was a Republican. By 1888 a split in the state Republican Party was reflected in an unorthodox selection of a gubernatorial candidate. Instead of supporting the reform-minded incumbent, Andrew Ryan McGill, a majority of party stalwarts rallied behind William Merriam, an ambitious Item ordered may not be exact piece shown. All original and authentic.