File:Daniel Webster 1824 Signature.jpg
Summary
A bank draft (No. 754, dated July 24, 1824), hand written and signed by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Webster" class="extiw" title="en:Daniel Webster">Daniel Webster</a> on a printed form in the amount of $3,001.01 drawn on the Boston branch of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Bank_of_the_United_States" class="extiw" title="en:Second Bank of the United States">Second Bank of the United States</a> (1816-41) and made to the order of Titus Welles, Esq, an attorney and President of the Eagle Bank (Boston) who received the funds acting as executor of an estate. Then a member of Congress (Fed-MA 1st), Webster was also both legal counsel for the Congressionally chartered, Philadelphia based Bank as well as the Director of its Boston branch. In 1819 he won <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCulloch_v._Maryland" class="extiw" title="en:McCulloch v. Maryland">McCulloch v. Maryland</a>, in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States" class="extiw" title="en:Supreme Court of the United States">Supreme Court of the United States</a> which reversed an earlier Maryland Court of Appeals holding in a tax case against the Baltimore branch of the Bank. Based on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer_Price_Index" class="extiw" title="en:Consumer Price Index">Consumer Price Index</a>, $3,001.01 would represent roughly $70,000 in 2010 US Dollars.
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| current | 11:45, 12 January 2017 | | 922 × 342 (434 KB) | 127.0.0.1 (talk) | A bank draft (No. 754, dated July 24, 1824), hand written and signed by <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Webster" class="extiw" title="en:Daniel Webster">Daniel Webster</a></b> on a printed form in the amount of $3,001.01 drawn on the Boston branch of the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Bank_of_the_United_States" class="extiw" title="en:Second Bank of the United States">Second Bank of the United States</a></b> (1816-41) and made to the order of <b>Titus Welles, Esq,</b> an attorney and President of the Eagle Bank (Boston) who received the funds acting as executor of an estate. Then a member of Congress (Fed-MA 1st), Webster was also both legal counsel for the Congressionally chartered, Philadelphia based Bank as well as the Director of its Boston branch. In 1819 he won <i><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCulloch_v._Maryland" class="extiw" title="en:McCulloch v. Maryland">McCulloch v. Maryland</a></b></i>, in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States" class="extiw" title="en:Supreme Court of the United States">Supreme Court of the United States</a> which reversed an earlier Maryland Court of Appeals holding in a tax case against the Baltimore branch of the Bank. Based on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer_Price_Index" class="extiw" title="en:Consumer Price Index">Consumer Price Index</a>, $3,001.01 would represent roughly $70,000 in 2010 US Dollars. |
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