1900 Ohio People's Party Leader Jacob Coxey's Army signed autographed document!

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Check it out...Here's an ONE-OF-A-KIND @ 8 1/2" wide by 4 3/4" tall AUTOGRAPHED official document signed TWICE by the leader of Coxey's Army and Ohio People's Party leader Jacob S. Coxey (Died in 1951) AND 3 more Ohio party officials / politicos, one of whom served for a time as Abraham Lincoln's bodyguard! The ornate metallic gold edged document is dated June 15th, 1900 and represents a $ 5.00 bond from the Dime Savings Bank in Mt. Vernon, Ohio for funding of the "Coxey Steel Casting Company" located there-FIVE VINTAGE ink fountain pen signatures (TWO by Coxey himself!) signed "J.S. Coxey" front & back and also signed by Frank L. Fairchild, William Penn Bogardus (Lincoln's bodyguard Cavalry member) & Frank Moore on back-SEE BIOS BELOW. Comes with 2 modern day photos of Coxey as well. FANTASTIC! What a great vintage item with FIVE (2 by Coxey himself) 100% authentic signatures on ONE item! This is an ORIGINAL item, NOT A REPRODUCTION item! Postage information is listed at the bottom-$ 6.95 postage is required.
1900 Ohio People's Party Leader Jacob Coxey's Army signed autographed document!
1900 Ohio People's Party Leader Jacob Coxey's Army signed autographed document!
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Check it out...Here's an ONE-OF-A-KIND @  8 1/2" wide by 4 3/4" tall AUTOGRAPHED official document signed TWICE by the leader of Coxey's Army and Ohio People's Party leader Jacob S. Coxey (Died in 1951) AND 3 more Ohio party officials / politicos, one of whom served for a time as Abraham Lincoln's bodyguard! The ornate metallic gold edged document is dated June 15th, 1900 and represents a $ 5.00 bond from the Dime Savings Bank in Mt. Vernon, Ohio for funding of the "Coxey Steel Casting Company" located there-FIVE VINTAGE ink fountain pen signatures (TWO by Coxey himself!) signed "J.S. Coxey" front & back and also signed by Frank L. Fairchild, William Penn Bogardus (Lincoln's bodyguard Cavalry member) & Frank Moore on back-SEE BIOS BELOW. Comes with 2 modern day photos of Coxey as well. FANTASTIC!
Here's some info on Coxey:
Jacob Sechler Coxey Sr. (April 16, 1854 – May 18, 1951), sometimes known as General Coxey, of Massillon, Ohio, was an American politician who ran for elective office several times in Ohio. Twice, in 1894 and 1914, he led "Coxey's Army", a group of unemployed men who marched to Washington, D.C., to present a "Petition in Boots" demanding that the United States Congress allocate funds to create jobs for the unemployed. Although the marches failed, Coxey's Army was an early attempt to arouse political interest in an issue that grew in importance until the Social Security Act of 1935 encouraged the establishment of state unemployment insurance programs. Jacob Sechler Coxey was born on April 16, 1854, in Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania, the son of the former Mary Ann Sechler and Thomas Coxey. His father worked in a sawmill at the time Jacob was born, but the family pulled up stakes to move to industrially thriving Danville, Pennsylvania, in 1860, with Jacob's father taking a job working in an iron mill. Known as Jake, Coxey excelled in school, attending local public schools and at least one additional year in a private academy before leaving to take his first job at the age of 16 as a water boy in the mill where his father worked. Coxey spent eight years at the iron mill, advancing through the ranks from water boy to machine oiler, boiler tender, and finally to stationary engineer. Coxey left the mill in 1878 to establish a business partnership with an uncle in a Harrisburg scrap-iron business. In this capacity, Coxey went on a scrap iron buying trip to the town of Massillon, located 325 miles to the west, in 1881. Coxey liked the town so much that he decided to stay, cashing out of the scrap iron business and using the proceeds to purchase a large farm and establish a quarry producing silica sand for the manufacture of glass and iron. Coxey was a passionate equestrian, who bred blooded horses and raced or sold them across the nation. Horse racing was among the most popular spectator sports in the United States and Coxey's horse-breeding enterprise was prosperous, but he fell into gambling on racing, which contributed to the end of his first marriage in 1888, after 14 years and four children. Coxey would remarry in 1891, siring two more children, including a son named "Legal Tender" in honor of his father's quirky monetary obsessions. Coxey was born to parents who supported the Democratic Party and he entered politics under this banner. With the coming of the economic crisis of 1877, Coxey became a partisan of the United States Greenback Party, which ascribed the nations economic woes to faulty economic principles which led to a severe contraction of the money supply in the years after the American Civil War. Prosperity could be restored, Greenbackers believed, by the issuance of sufficient quantities of paper money. When the People's Party emerged at the start of the 1890s, it earned the support of Coxey and most other Greenbackers and he shifted his allegiance to that political organization. Coxey had experience as a laborer and an employer; he was also aware of the agricultural situation. He was a reformer who was willing to spend time and money to promote his plans for the betterment of the social order. Coxey was regarded by many contemporary observers as convincingly earnest. One reporter wrote, "He seems to be profoundly impressed with the suffering of mankind and with a belief that there is a deep-laid plan of monopolist to crush the poor to the earth." He was often branded as a crank for challenging the economic system that made him so prosperous. In 1893 a severe economic depression swept the United States – a crisis remembered as the Panic of 1893. Unemployment skyrocketed, bank runs paralyzed the local financial system, and credit dried up, while a protracted period of deflation put negative pressure on wages, prompting widespread lockouts and strikes. Never one to be short of either self-confidence or political ambition, Coxey believed that he held the key to the nation's economic woes and began espousing a plan of public works, specifically road improvement, to be financed through the issuance of 0 million in paper money, backed by government bonds. This expenditure would in one swoop improve infrastructure, put unemployed workers to work, and loosen the strangled credit situation, Coxey believed. To accompany his novel and controversial economic program, organized around the slogan "Good Roads", Coxey and his close political associate Carl Browne devised a novel political strategy designed to force the United States government into action. Rather than attempt to form a conventional political organization to capture decision-making offices, Coxey decided upon a course of what would later be known as direct action — the assembly of a mass of unemployed workers who would boldly march on Washington, DC to demand immediate satisfaction of their needs by Congress. This plan began to take shape early in the spring of 1894, to the point that by March the managing editor of the Chicago Record would assign young reporter Ray Stannard Baker to cover the "queer chap down there in Massillon" who was "getting up an army of the unemployed to march on Washington." Many members of Coxey's family were opposed to his involvement in Coxey's Army. His father refused to talk to reporters and called his son "stiff necked", "cranky", and "pig-headed". One of Coxey's sisters called him an embarrassment. He was a member of the Socialist Party circa 1912. Coxey lived to be 97 years old. When asked his secret to longevity, he told reporters an array of reasons from elixirs to not resisting temptation.
Frank L. Fairchild was born in Brownhelm, in Lorain County, in 1843. Though he grew up on a farm, his family was very involved with education, three of his uncles being college presidents. Frank himself went to Oberlin College. After the war, he married Sarah Thatcher from Litchfield, Ohio, and moved to Mount Vernon to work at the C. & G. Cooper Company. Within three years, he had been made a partner. From 1869 to 1878, he was in Chicago overseeing the company's operations there, but he returned after that and was eventually made president of the company. Fairchild was also heavily involved in community projects, serving as trustee of the Water Works, becoming one of the founders of the public library and president of it, too. “...[N]o man has a cleaner record or is more highly respected than he,” said The Biographical Record of Knox County, Ohio, published in 1902. He lived happily at Maplehurst with his wife and several children, and a handful of servants. Their idyllic life was to come to an abrupt and bloody end on the evening of Saturday, April 22, 1905, when the Fairchilds' servant Miranda Bricker was attacked and murdered on the front lawn of Maplehurst while the family and other servants slept inside, unawares. Frank L. Fairchild himself lived another seven years before he passed away at the age of 69. The family home passed on to other family members. In later years, the building declined and sat empty for a time before it was torn down around 1970, a grand part of Mount Vernon history, forever lost.
William Penn Bogardus (1841-1920). Born in Pennsylvania, buried in Mound View Cemetery, Mount Vernon, Knox County, Ohio USA. William Bogardus was a member of the Seventh Independent Cavalry, which served as Abraham Lincoln’s bodyguards. He also owned a hardware store, located on the public square of Mount Vernon, Ohio, ”Bogardus and Company”.
Frank Moore (1852-1922) was an attorney in Mt. Vernon.
What a great vintage item with FIVE (2 by Coxey himself) 100% authentic signatures on ONE item! This is an ORIGINAL item, NOT A REPRODUCTION item!
Postage information is listed at the bottom-$ 6.95 postage is required.
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