1910 Hawthorne Silver & Iron Mines Ltd Stock Certificate Ontario, Canada

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1910 Hawthorne Silver & Iron Mines Ltd Stock Certificate Ontario, Canada
100 Shares, issued March 21, 1910.
Signed by president Julian Hawthorne, the second child of American novelist and short story writer Nathaniel Hawthorne, born June 22, 1846.
In 1908, Hawthorne's old Harvard friend William J. Morton (a physician) invited Hawthorne to join in promoting some newly created mining companies in Ontario, Canada. Hawthorne made his writing and his family name central to the stock-selling campaigns. After complaints from shareholders, both Morton and Hawthorne were tried in New York City for mail fraud, and convicted in 1913. Hawthorne was able to sell some three and a half million shares of stock in a nonexistent silver mine and served one year in the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary.
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