Topic: Business and Industry / Subject Headings: Land Use / Contributor: Fisher, George E.

Creator:: Close Brothers & Company, 84 La Salle Street, Chicago, Illinois
Date Created:: 1887-09-23
Description:: This contract, for a piece of land in Graham County, Kansas, is between Samuel Haughton Graves of Close Brothers & Company for William Austin, Edward Ford North and Robert Edward Bateman, of England, and George E. Fisher of Pottawattamie County, Iowa. It is for the northeast quarter of Section 31 in Township 10 South, of Range 24 west of the sixth principal meridian. This is in Graham County, Kansas. The contract involves 160 acres for the sum of $1120 and includes beginning September 23, 1887 until voluntarily surrendered and cancelled November 11, 1892. The Close Brothers & Company, composed of William Close, James Close, John Close, Frederick Close and S.H. Graves, organized in 1876 and located in Pipestone in 1883. They also operated under business names Western Land Company and the South Minnesota Land Company.
Contributing Institution:: Pipestone County Historical Society
Type:: Text
Format:: Contracts

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