page_title: Samuel Marsh (railroad executive)
section_title: New Erie Railway Company
hierarchical_section_title: Samuel Marsh (railroad executive) / Work / New Erie Railway Company
caption_attribution_description: English: Erie Railroad Company, common capital stock certificate, 1869
context_page_description: Samuel Marsh was an American business man and president of the Erie Railroad from 1859 to 1861.
context_section_description: In 1861, William Buck Dana (1829–1910) reports in the Merchants Magazine and Commercial Review reports, that the new corporation of the Erie Railway Company  was organized in May 1861 by the election of Nathaniel Marsh as President; Samuel Marsh as Vice President; H.N. Otis, Secretary; and Talman J. Waters, Treasurer, and the directors of the late New-York and Erie Company as directors; Mr. Wright, of Binghamton, and Mr. Diven, of Elmira, being substituted for Mr. Conn and Mr. Gelpcke.
  The capital, in common shares, to consist of so much of the present $11,550,000 as may be assented to file contract of reorganization before the 29th of July next; and the capital in preferred shares to be so much of the unsecured and judgment debt as shall be assented by the same time, together with the arrearages of interest thereon, the whole estimated at about $8,000,000, or the equivalent of about 80,000 preferred shares.
caption: New common capital stock certificate of the Erie Railroad Company, 1860s.
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