THE McCULLOCH COUNTY LAND AND CATTLE COMPANY. INCORPORATED UNDER THE LAWS OF TEXAS 1885. CERTIFICATE FOR TWO SHARES OF STOCK, TAYLOR, TEXAS, JAN. 8th, 1914.

Pittsburgh, PA: The Armor Lithographing Co. Limited, [nd] [188-, crossed through]. Printed stock certificate, completed in manuscript, 18 x 28 cm. Text enclosed in a decorative border, orange paper seal of the McCulloch County Land and Cattle Company in the lower left, three small vignettes of cattle, sheep, and wildlife. This stock certificate N. 283, issued to C.H. Booth, certifies that he is entitled to two shares of the capital stock of the company. Signed by G.M. Booth, Secretary, and J.B. Pumphrey, President. Laid down on a backing board, matted. Item #67283

In a brief memoir of his life on the cattle trail, published in "The Trail Driver of Texas," compiled & edited by J. Marvin Hunter, (Geo. W. Saunders: c.1920, Vol. 1, pp.28-30), John Boyce Pumphrey says he began in the cow business in Texas in 1869, at the age of 17. By 1872, he was on a cattle drive to Kansas with about 6000 head. "I have handled cattle in Mexico, South and Central Texas, Oklahoma, and once had a herd in Wyoming. I was director and vice president of the Taylor National Bank for twenty-four years, president of the McCulloch County Land & Cattle Company about twenty-five years, and now have ranches in McCulloch and Stonewall Counties." Pumphrey died in Taylor, Texas in 1917.

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