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Howard Louis Kohn (November 8, 1861–November 2, 1933) and Clara (McGowan) Kohn (November 20, 1899–March 7, 1988) were New Mexican businesspeople and ranchers of T4 Cattle Company, one of the largest private ranches in the United States with about 220,000 acres. They also held a hotel, banks, and mercantile shop.
The following are approximate tallies of current listings by county. These counts are based on entries in the National Register Information Database as of April 24, 2008 [2] and new weekly listings posted since then on the National Register of Historic Places web site. [3]
Kohn acquired more land through the homestead act and established a cattle ranch operated by Yetta Kohn & Company. [1] [2] The cattle were branded 4V, and to a lesser extent, YK. [3] They also established a land company, a mercantile business, and a bank operated by Kohn and her three sons, called Kohn Bros. [1] [2] Her sons lived in Las Vegas ...
Lapeer Mercantile Company, Lapeer [257] Larsen's Department Store, Manistee [248] Lauerman Brothers Department Store Marinette, Wisconsin, Menominee, Sault Ste. Marie (1904 - 1985) [210] Its flagship store in Marinette, Wisconsin is a registered historic place. The chain consisted of 13 stores in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Iowa.
The Drummond family is an American ranching family from Oklahoma. The family is one of the largest land-owning families in the state of Oklahoma and the United States. In 2017, the family owned 433,000 acres according to The Land Report magazine.
African Americans in the United States have a unique history of homesteading, in part due to historical discrimination and legacies of enslavement. Black American communities were negatively impacted by the Homestead Act's implementation, which was designed to give land to those who had been enslaved and other underprivileged groups.
The Trujillo Homesteads are a historic ranch site near Mosca, Alamosa County, Colorado, not far from the Great Sand Dunes National Park. The area was first settled in the 1860s by Teofilo Trujillo, a Mexican sheep farmer. His son Pedro built a log cabin house beginning in 1879, along with other ranch outbuildings and structures.
Marie Antoinette Guiraud (October 31, 1832–June 5, 1909) was a French-American pioneer and rancher in Colorado Territory.Born in Gard departement in France, Marie Antoinette Chabreat married Adolphe Guiraud in 1848 and set sail for New Orleans, Louisiana, one year later.