Metropolitan Savings Bank Stock Certificate Issued to / SIGNED BY Charles Barney

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Metropolitan Savings Bank Stock Certificate
Issued to and SIGNED BY Charles Barney
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The Metropolitan Savings Bank was incorporated on July 22, 1887 in Washington.  The bank was based in Tacoma.
This piece is issue to and signed by Charles D. Barney.
Charles D. Barney
Charles D. Barney was a member of the Huntingdon Valley Country Club and for a time served as the club's Treasurer.
Barney was born in Sandusky, Ohio, the son of a grain merchant. Barney attended the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan when the American Civil War broke out. Barney's older brother was killed and at the end of 1862, Barney was permitted by his family to enlist in the U.S. Army. After the war, Barney worked briefly as a clerk at a bank in Sandusky.
After two years, Barney moved to Philadelphia, where he married Laura E. Cooke, the daughter of prominent Philadelphia financier Jay Cooke, joining the firm of Jay Cooke & Company Following the collapse of his father-in-law's Philadelphia banking house, in 1873, Barney reorganized the firm as Chas. D. Barney & Co. Barney's brother-in-law, Jay Cooke, Jr., joined the new firm as a minority partner.
Barney retired from day-to-day control of the firm in 1906 but remained involved through the 1930s. In 1938, Charles D. Barney & Co. and Edward B. Smith & Co. merged to form Smith Barney & Co.
Barney died in 1945 at the age of 101 at Elkins Park, Pennsylvania near Philadelphia. At the time of his death, Barney was among the oldest living veterans of the American Civil War.
Barney was a director of the Union League of Philadelphia.
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PLEASE NOTE this piece has a full tear from top to bottom that was originally tape repaired on the front. That repair has fallen off leaving the discoloration shown on the photo above. A newer tape repair has been applied on the back. As seen in the image above, Barney's signature is intact and has not been canceled.
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