JACOB SECHLER "GENERAL COXEY" COXEY - AUTOGRAPH DOCUMENT SIGNED 11/07/1891 - HFSID 17820

JACOB SECHLER COXEY
Reformer Jacob Sechler Coxey wrote and signed this document on his personalized business letterhead in 1891 to acknowledge that he got the recipient's payment. Coxey is best remembered for leading a band of jobless men called "Coxey's Army" on a march on Washington D. C. after the Panic of 1893. This letter is dated two years before Coxey's Army began its march on Easter Sunday in 1894.
Autograph document signed "JSCoxey". Pencil notations on verso in unknown hand. 1 page, 8¾x11¼,on Coxey's business stationery, embossed rules. With a b/w illustration and brief bloodline of Acolyte, one of Coxey's stud horses. Nov. 7, 1891. Addressed to "The Kellogg Seamless [illegible]. Co", Boston, Massachusetts. In full: "You favor of the 4th with note @ 60 days 85.21 recd. in settle-ment fo acct. to date Yours Truly". This letter is dated less than two years before "Coxey's Army" began his march on Washington, D. C. on from his home town of Massillon, Ohio on March 25, 1894. Coxey apparently had a thing for the ponies; this letterhead has bloodlines for Acolyte and another of his stallions, Almontonian in the top right corner. Ohio businessman and social reformer Coxey (1854-1951) is best known for leading "Coxey's Army", a band of jobless men who marched on Washington, D.C. after the Panic of 1893 to petition Congress for measures to relieve unemployment. Though popular, the group reached the nation's capital with 500 instead of the projected 100,000 marchers, and their leaders were arrested for walking on the Capitol lawn. Coxey, who advocated public works as a means to alleviate unemployment, would later serve as Mayor of Massillon, Ohio (1931-1933) and unsuccessfully seek the presidency in 1932 and 1936. Lightly toned, foxed, stained and creased. Signature and body of letter have bled lightly but are legible. Show-through from illustration on verso touches signature and body of letter. Missing bottom left corner. Light tears in right and bottom edge. Rust stain from clip at top left corner. Mounting residue on verso (no show-through). Folded twice horizontally and vertically; comes folded horizontally once. Otherwise in fine condition.