Carolina Savings Bank stock certificate c1874 (South Carolina) - Charleston AC

Rare Charlestown SC banking stock certificate. Classic period (banking) vignette of dog sitting in front of a caged safe. Circa 1874 from issued examples. Dated 187_. Approximately 10 x 8 inches.

The Carolina Savings Bank of Charleston, SC, was chartered in 1874, with George W. Williams as its founder and president. Williams was a Charleston merchant, banker, and railroad executive who also founded the grocery firm of George W. Williams & Co. in Charleston in 1852.

Williams began his career as a merchant in Augusta, Ga. In 1852 he established the wholesale grocery firm of George W. Williams & Co. in Charleston, S.C. He was founder and president of the Carolina Savings Bank of Charleston (chartered 1874) and a director of the South Carolina Railroad and the Charleston and Savannah Railroad (later called the Savannah and Charleston Railroad). His son George W. Williams (1860-1923) was a Charleston businessman and banker.

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