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FORD ACQUISITION OF LAND IN THE UPPER PENINSULALand Acquisition Agreement • July 25th, 2019
The Michigan Land & Iron company, the possession of which has recently passed to the Henry Ford automobile interests, is a large tract located in the upper peninsula of Michigan, the total acreage aggregating nearly 430,000, of which about 320,000 acres is in fee simple, the balance being the mineral right only. The estate was the unsold portion of the land grant received by the Marquette, Houghton & Ontonagon Railroad company from the state of Michigan. The sale of the lands by the railway company to the Michigan Land & Iron company took place about 1880, and the principal purchaser was Sir Thomas Brassey, of England, afterward Lord Brassey, who died about three years ago. His son was killed by a taxi in London last November. He left no children, and evidently the estate had to be divided. Mr. Horatio Seymour, of Utica, N.Y., was appointed agent for the company and came to live in Marquette in the fall of 1881. After 1901 J.M. Longyear bought an interest in the company and became agen
