1882 WOODRUFF SLEEPING & PARLOR COACH CO. PREFERRED STK Issued to Woodruff + 5 Vignettes ~ Signed / Issued #501 Start Price USD 9.99 Current Price USD 50.99 Time Left - Bid Count 12 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Monday, July 14, 2008 End Time Monday, July 21, 2008 Location Springfield, OR See more about '1882 WOODRUFF SLEEPING & PARLOR COACH CO. PREFERRED STK' Description sharon1a Store 1882 WOODRUFF SLEEPING & PARLOR COACH COMPANY PREFERRED STOCK ~ AUTHENTIC   CERTIFICATE!  BEAUTIFUL ! This historical stock has 5 vignettes.  Issued to Woodruff and to some trustees. At the age of 16, Theodore Tuttle Woodruff (1811-1892) happily left the farm and became an apprentice wagon-maker. He worked at that trade for three years and then went into a foundry to learn pattern-making. As a journeyman pattern-maker he worked for the earliest car builders in Springfield, Massachusetts. He may have worked at Dean, Packard & Mills Car Builders in Springfield and thus had a friendship with Caleb Parker at the time Parker was a principal in Barney, Parker & Company (predecessor to Barney & Smith). About 1855, Woodruff became Master Car Builder for the Terre Haute, Alton & St. Louis Railroad at Alton, Illinois.  At the time of his employment, Barney, Parker & Co. was engaged to build cars for that railroad. On 2 December 1856, Woodruff received two patents for a convertible car seat (Nos. 16,159 and 16,160). He went back to Springfield, Massachusetts, where he had a car built by T.W. Wason & Co. using the seats. Woodruff's design divided the car into sections, with seats permanently fixed in pairs facing each other. A lower and a middle berth were produced by a complicated arrangement of pivoted seat cushions. An upper was produced by hinged frames that folded up against the wall by day. At night curtains were hung between and in front of the berths. Interior of T.T. Woodruff's sleeping car. (Scientific American, 25 September 1858) The certificate is  6.25" x 10.5" and in very good condition with cancellations, you will be pleased!  Please email me with any questions:  dashley19@hotmail.com  Thank you!  *FREE postage for any additional purchases shipped with this one, $2.75 total for as many as you purchase! Place a Bid!