Close Brothers & Company, 84 La Salle Street, Chicago, Illinois
Date Created:
1893-02-20
Description:
This contract, for a piece of land in Pipestone County, Minnesota, is between Samuel Haughton Graves of Close Brothers & Company for South Minnesota Land Company, and John Peter Rolen of Pipestone County, Minnesota. It is for the north half of the southeast quarter of Section 15, Township 108 North of Range 44 West of the fifth principal meridian. This is in Aetna Township, Pipestone County, Minnesota. The contract involves 80 acres for the sum of $880 and includes a detail of payment made between February 20, 1893 and paid in full June 30, 1894. 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.