1917 Independent Corporation stock certificate signed by Karl V.S.Howland

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This is a 1917 stock certificate for the Independent Corporation.Located in New York.It is signed by Karl V.S.Howland the son of William Howland whom died a few weeks earlier.The son then signed stock certificates.It was a weekly magazine and run by William Bailey Howland (1849–1917), was the editor of
The Outlook
, publisher of
The Independent
and
The Countryside Magazine
, and president of the Independent Corporation. He was a member of the American Peace Centenary Committee.He was born to Harrison O. Howland and Hannah Bailey on 10 June 1849 in Ashland, Greene County, New York.He married Miss Ella M. Jacobs in Gowanda, Cattaraugus County, New York.They had the following children.Karl V. S. Howland and Harold J. Howlan.He died in 1917 of heart disease and was buried in Kinderhook, New York.Stock #1341.Scarce stock