Property

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This file contains an inventory of Almira Hill's personal property as of January 1, 1872, "when N. Hill commenced doing business for her." The inventory listed farm property, livestock, and household furniture.

Scope and Contents This file contains four postcards addressed to Frank N. Schroeder, county treasurer of Dubuque, Iowa. Two postcards address notes received by Alice Hill and T. J. Johnson, respectively, from Schroeder's office regarding delinquent taxes. Both writers state that they believe their taxes to be paid in full but desire to settle any amount owed. In the third postcard, William Plunkett asks for a tax deed for property bought at a public tax sale, while S. B. Sattner, writer of the fourth...

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This file contains materials related to Jenks Brothers, Wholesale Portrait and Frame Dealers, in Freeport, Illinois. Two of the letters are from New Mexico, concerning the Jenks's Brothers property lease; while another, from Redlands, California, describes available land opportunities in California. There is also an invoice for stone mason work.

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This file contains one two-page letter from Geo Stubb in Alphena, Michigan, to Ren S. S. Clark in Detroit, asking Clark to participate in developing and selling plots of land Stubb owns on Lake Eream.

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This file contains five typed letters to Miss Sophie M. Taylor of Woodhull, Illinois, from two individuals at companies in Kansas regarding the lease or sale of land for oil and gas speculation. Two of the letters are from M. K. Cardell at Citizens State/Exchange Bank in Little River, Kansas, sent in 1941 and 1944. Three are from Earl M. Knighton, Oil and Gas Leases, Wichita, Kansas.

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This file contains two letters from Richard A. Geuss to the editors of the Lenora News and the Hill City Times newspapers, both of Kansas. He encloses the text of an advertisement for land that he wishes to sell in Graham County and asks that it be placed in the papers for a specified period of time.

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This file contains a document describing the sale of a parcel of land in Cahaba, Alabama, from Robert and Lucinda Sharp to Peter Mastin, who paid them four hundred dollars for it. The official document, called a "Deed with Warranty and Relinquishment of Dower," was printed in Montgomery, Alabama.

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This file contains thirty-six letters and nine records belonging to Thomas J. Campbell, a lawyer and businessman in Mineral Point, Wisconsin, who had business dealings with men from all over Kentucky and surrounding areas, mostly regarding the buying and selling of land.

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This file contains a letter from W. Divine and T. G. Ferrclo in Sycamore, Illinois, to S. E. Jones in Iowa Falls, Iowa. They discuss business involving the acquisition of land in Minnesota.

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This file contains a bill of sale for a one-third interest in a parcel of land located in Birmingham, Alabama, owned by W. P. Harvey and being transferred to T. T. Eaton. The lot was located on the corner of Avenue A and 21st Street and was sold for the sum of $5,800.00. The bill of sale is written on stationery from The Florence House.

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This file contains a letter from William H. Crins, in Providence, to Mr. H. M. Sawtelle, answering a letter from Sawtelle concerning a real estate deal for "the Virginia property."

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This file contains a letter from William Mancott of Utica, Ohio, to Henry(?) Woodward, describing in detail a tract of land seven miles from Mill Creek. Mancott refers to questions about whether Woodward's infant daughter can legally own the land in question.