Goldfield Consolidated Mines Co. Signed by Geo. Wingfield - Stock Certificate - For Sale

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Goldfield Consolidated Mines Co. Signed by Geo. Wingfield - Stock Certificate - :
$184.00

Stocksigned by George Wingfield as president. George Wingfield (August 16, 1876 \" December 25, 1959) was aNevadacattleman and gambler who became a financier, investor and one of the state\'s most powerful economic and political figures during the period from 1909 to 1932. With future senatorGeorge S. Nixonas his mentor after he settled in Winnemucca in 1899, and fellow gambler John Hennessy as his partner in the mining boomtown of Tonopah after 1901, Wingfield rose fromfaro-dealer to become richest man in Nevada in less than five years. George Wingfield was born atFort Smith, Arkansasin 1876 to Thomas Yates Wingfield (1846-1906) and his wife, the former, the former Martha Matilda Spradling (1848-1940). His grandfather Edward Wingfield had moved his family (including his 3 sons, William, Thomas and Henry and their families) fromAlbemarle County, Virginiato Fo Item ordered may not be exact piece shown. All original and authentic.