George H. Kendall

Kendall in 1913

George H. Kendall (c.1854–1924) was the president of the New York Bank Note Company that printed stock certificates. He was also an art collector.[1]

Biography

George H. Kendall sign at the New York Bank Note Company

He was born around 1854.

In 1877 Kendall founded the Kendall Bank Note Company and later changed the name to the New York Bank Note Company.[2]

In 1892 he replaced Russell Sage as president of the company.[3]

In 1896 he moved to the Grymes Hill neighborhood in Staten Island.[4]

He had a long running dispute with the New York Stock Exchange because they would not list companies with securities that were engraved by him.[5]

In 1913 he accused Senator Stephen J. Stilwell of demanding a bribe.[6][7]

He died in 1924 at the Sherman Square Hotel. At the time of his death, he was estimated to be about 70 years old.[2]

References

1. "Van Dyke". Time magazine. October 22, 1923. Archived from the original on November 2, 2012. Retrieved 2009-01-04. Sundry personages came to the aid and comfort of Dr. Van Dyke, including George B. McClellan, former Mayor of New York, now professor of economic history at Princeton; George H. Kendall, President of the New York Bank Note Co., a collector; Peter Thelen, Belgian antiquarian.
2. "George H. Kendall Dies in Hotel Here. President of New York Bank Note Company Was About 70 Years Old". New York Times. April 25, 1924. Retrieved 2009-01-04. George H. Kendall, President of the New York Bank Note Company, ... In 1877 he founded the Kendall Bank Note Company, changing the name in ... to the New York Bank Note Company.
3. "New York Bank Note Company". New York Times. May 1, 1892. Retrieved 2009-01-04. Russell Sage has ended his experiences as President of the New-York Bank Note Company at 1 Broadway by resigning his office, retiring from the Board of Directors, and selling his stock. Charles E. Gray, Treasurer, goes out with him, and so many other changes have occurred among the Directors that the board as at present constituted bears very little resemblance to the body in office a year ago. ... George H. Kendall has succeeded Mr. Sage as President of the company. ... the concern having succeeded the Kendall Bank Note Company. ...
4. "History and legend of Howard Avenue and the Serpentine Road, Grymes Hill, Staten Island". 1914.
5. "New York Bank Note Work Excluded Because of His "Character," It Says". New York Times. March 10, 1913. Retrieved 2009-01-04. The New York Stock Exchange issued yesterday, through William C. Van Antwerp, a statement in reply to attacks made on it by George H. Kendall, President of the New York Bank Note Company, in which it accuses him of falsehood and defends the exclusion from listing of securities engraved by him on the ground of his "character."
6. "Tells of Overhearing Telephone Talk with Stilwell. Kendall's Story Unshaken". New York Times. April 10, 1913. Retrieved 2009-01-04. At the end of a sharp cross-examination George H. Kendall, President of the New York Bank Note Company, the principal witness against Senator Stephen J. Stilwell of the Bronx in the investigation conducted by the Senate Judiciary Committee on the charge of attempted extortion, left the stand late this afternoon.
7. Myers, Gustavus (1917). The History of Tammany Hall. Boni & Liveright. p. 372. ... an investigation by the judiciary committee of charges of bribery made against him by George H. Kendall, president of the New York Bank Note Company. ...

External links

• George H. Kendall in the New York Times