JOHN DIX. DS. 1pp. 6 1/2" x 5". Albany. May 20, 1837. A check signed by "John Dix" and two other "Commissioners of the Canal Fund". The "Mechanics' and Farmers' Bank" check paid "H. W. Palmer Cashier or Order, Four thousand Dollars". The cut cancellation does not affect anything. The signatures are dark and the paper is very white; the condition is excellent.

1857, Iowa. Stock certificate for 100 shares in the Mississippi and Missouri Railroad Company. Black. Engraved depiction of the Government Bridge, the first railroad bridge to ever span the Mississippi River at top, Indians on horseback below. Signed as president by JOHN A. DIX (1798-1879). Dix was Union general during the Civil War, Secretary of the Treasury and railroad executive. Dix was a trusted public servant and financier in the period leading up to the Civil War. He served as U.S. Secretary of the Treasury during the last three months of the Buchanan administration (Jan. - March 1861), at the insistence of the eastern money interests who knew that Dix's presence would lend stability to that faltering administration. In May 1861, Lincoln appointed Dix major general of volunteers and, as such, Dix outranked all other volunteer officers until the end of the War. After the War, Dix had a distinguished career in both diplomacy and politics, serving as Minister to France, 1866-1869, and as governor of New York, 1872-1874. Pen and punch cancellations, the latter affecting Dix's signature. Very fine.

1856, Iowa. Stock certificate for 12 shares in the Mississippi and Missouri Railroad Company. Black. Engraved multi-vignetted certificate depicting Indians at bottom and railroad bridge at top. Signed as president by JOHN A. DIX (1798-1879). Dix was Union general during the Civil War, Secretary of the Treasury and railroad executive. Dix was a trusted public servant and financier in the period leading up to the Civil War. He served as U.S. Secretary of the Treasury during the last three months of the Buchanan administration (Jan. - March 1861), at the insistence of the eastern money interests who knew that Dix's presence would lend stability to that faltering administration. In May 1861, Lincoln appointed Dix major general of volunteers and, as such, Dix outranked all other volunteer officers until the end of the War. After the War, Dix had a distinguished career in both diplomacy and politics, serving as Minister to France, 1866-1869, and as governor of New York, 1872-1874. Pen and punch cancellations, the latter affecting Dix's signature. Very fine.