Close Brothers & Company Land Contract #2677, A.J. Rice, Trego County, Kansas
- Close Brothers & Company Land Contract #2677, A.J. Rice, Trego County, Kansas
- This contract, for a piece of land in Trego County Kansas, is between Samuel Haughton Graves of Close Brothers & Company, for William Austin, Robert Edward Bateman, and Edward Ford North, of England, and A.J. Rice of Nobles County, Minnesota. It is for the southeast quarter of Section 17, Township 13 South, of Range 23 West of the sixth principal meridian. This is in Trego County, Kansas. The contract involves 160 acres for the sum of $1120 and includes a detail of payment made between August 11, 1892 and cancellation in May 1896. 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.
- 1892-08-11
- English
- 2677
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