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Ephemra - NEW YORK American Exchange Bank J.Kennedy & Tod & Co.

Currency:CAD Category:Coins & Paper Money Start Price:20.00 CAD Estimated At:40.00 - 60.00 CAD
Ephemra - NEW YORK American Exchange Bank  J.Kennedy & Tod & Co.
SOLD
30.00CAD+ buyer's premium + applicable fees & taxes.
This item SOLD at 2016 Nov 26 @ 19:22UTC-4 : AST/EDT

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Ephemra - NEW YORK
American Exchange Bank J.Kennedy & Tod & Co.
- For Approval by American Bank Note Company
1890 (sheet of 4 checks/torn)
12.3/8" x 13"

J. Kennedy Tod, a banker, financier, and railroad executive, was the son of Andrew Tod and Mary Kennedy, born in 1852, at Glasgow, Scotland.
He received his education at the Glasgow Academy, and was well known throughout Great Britain and Ireland as a football player, many times representing Scotland in the international games with England, Ireland and Wales.
Soon after leaving school he came to the United States and entered the banking house of his uncle, Mr. John S. Kennedy. In due course he became a partner, and on Mr. Kennedy’s retirement from business Mr. Tod formed the banking firm of J. Kennedy Tod & Co., of No. 45 Wall Street, so well and widely known in the business and financial circles. He was a very successful, highly respected and well-liked man.
He took an active part in the reorganization of the railway properties during the disastrous years from 1890 to 1897 and was particularly interested in the successful readjustment of the affairs of the Philadelphia & Reading Railway, Norfolk & Western Railroad, St. Louis & San Francisco Railway, San Antonio & Aransas Pass Railway, Minneapolis & St. Louis Railway, Rio Grande Western Railway, Toledo, St. Louis & Western Railroad, Colorado & Southern Railway, Memphis & Charleston Railroad and Baltimore & Ohio Railroad.
Mr. Tod was at one time connected with the National Guard of the State of New York as Commissary of the 71st Regiment. He passed away on June 8, 1925, at his summer home, Innis Arden House, Sound Beach, Connecticut.