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                  <text>HORTON STEEL WORKS LTD.::: JENNET ST. BRIDGEBtlRG ONT.
IDT

Apr. 18. 1884. Wm.

5 CON. !. N.R. Block J. plan525.

Mc. Black &amp; wife to WM.

Sept.18. 1888. Wm. B.

B. Purci.

Purci &amp; wife to Walter L. Curtiss.

Oct. 12. 1911. Walter L. Curtiss &amp; wife to Frederick J. lautz.
July 10. 1912. Frederick J. Lautz &amp; wife to The Lautz Company.
May

17,

1913. Walter B. curtiss &amp; wife to Robert H. Murray:
( general manager of Chicago Bridge &amp; Iron Wks)

ï¿½

7 9/100 acres: $ 3600
. May

ZQ:. 1913

â€¢

â€¢

Robert H. Murray &amp; wife Sue Horton,
Bridge &amp; Iron Wks.

to Chicago

inst.1848.

Sept.20. 1916. Chicago Bridge &amp; Iron

Company to Canadian Chicago

Bridge &amp; Iron Company Ltd.

779/ 100 acres.

Mar. 15. 1923. Walter L. CUrtiss &amp; wife to Horton Steel WksLtd.
4 acres.
May

( fire in main plant 1923*new 1924.)

12. 1923. Louis F. Eedders &amp; wife Florence Kroll Fedders
to Horton Steel Works Ltd.: a corporation of
the Dominion of Canada, having it's principal
office &amp; place of business in Bridgeburg Ont.
building &amp; land valued at $35,000.
(Fedders a manufacturer of auto parts had

purchased ï¿½eir

land on the east side of Jennet

from James M. Carter June 24. 1920.They had a
story frame building close by the sidewalk.

two

On Mar. 3rd. they bought the property next door
belonging to the Lautz Marbel wks.)

_1922.

1922: Fedders never fopenedï¿½ecuse of Customs regulations.
Walter L. Curtiss widower, to Horton Steel Wks.

Dec.

June 10. 1927.

part lot
Feb. 10ï¿½ 1928.

Fort

J.

$12000. Inst. 4480.

Erie Estates Ltd. to Horton Steel Wks. Ltd.

$1200.
May

21. 1928.

Fort

Erie Estates Ltd. to Horton Steel Wks.Ltd.

$700.
Dec.

10. 1928. Fort Erie Estates Ltd. to Horton Steel Wks. Ltd.
interalia: $16.100.00.

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