| Lot | | | Description | | 217 |  | | | LIZZIE BORDEN (LIZBETH A. BORDEN) autograph, Boston and Maine Railroad $4,000 Receipt for Deposit of Bonds certificate. 1926. Signature is on the back of the certificate. VF
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Lizzie Andrew Borden (July 19, 1860 – June 1, 1927) was an American woman who was tried and acquitted of the August 4, 1892, axe murders of her father and stepmother in Fall River, Massachusetts. |
| | | Item Status  | | | | | 218 |  | | | CARDINAL RICHARD CUSHING autograph on a stock assignment for 3,000 shares of the Boston Edison Company. This lot includes 30 stock certificates issued for 100 shares each between 1946 to 1951 that represent this transaction. There is only one autograph, that being on the stock assignment attached to the last certificate issued. VF a few of the certificates have some faults
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Richard James Cushing (August 24, 1895 – November 2, 1970) was an American prelate of the Catholic Church. He served as archbishop of Boston from 1944 to 1970 and was made a cardinal in 1958. He was a close friend of the Kennedy family and officiated at the marriage of U.S. Senator John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Lee Bouvier at St. Mary's Church in Newport, Rhode Island, in 1953. He delivered the invocation at the 1961 presidential inauguration of Kennedy. After Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas, in November 1963, Cushing officiated at his funeral mass at St. Matthew's Cathedral in Washington. |
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