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[Vol. XIII. No. 313 



GUARANTY INVESTMENT COMPANY 



CAPITAL $250,000. 



Offices: Atchison, Kan. 191 Broadway, New York. 222 Walnut St., Phila. 



Hon. ALBERT H. HORTON (Chief Justice, Kansas Sopreme Court), Topeka, Kan., Pres't. 



71 Guaranteed Farm Mortgages 7' 







The Gua7'antee Investment Company makes loans upon fertile farms in the choicest portions of Kansas and Nebraska 

 and has adopted the policy of sending a Conunittee of its Investors each year to exatnine its loans and methods of business. 



The Committee this year consisted of PROF. A. H. BERLIN^ Principal of the High School Montrose, Pa., and 

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The Co7)imittee has recently retitrned and has made a very interesting Report' upon the general development of Kansas ana 

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The foil otving names are taken from the long list of Investors i/i our Mortgages: 



William A. Cauldwell, 59 Liberty St., N.Y. 



Palmer Cox, 658 Broadway. N.Y. 



Rev. Jos. H. Kylance, D.D., 11 Livingston Place, N.Y. 



Rev. Brady E. Backus, D.D., 360 West 28th St., N.Y. 



Rev. R. M. Sommervilc, 126 West 45th St.. N.Y. 



Dr. Robert A. Murray, 23s West 23d St., N.Y. 



Dr. James P. Tuttle, 136 West 41st St., N.Y. 



H. Edwards Rowland, 218 Fulton St.. N.Y. 



Irving H. Tifft, Esq., 271 Broadway, N.Y. 



Prof. D. G. Eaton, 55 Pineapple St , Brooklyn, N.Y. 



. P. Thwing, 156 St. Marks A\ 

 Dr. C. C. Miles, Greenport, N.Y. 

 John V. N. Bergen, Port Jefferson, N.Y. 

 Benj. W. Stilwell, Yonkers, N.Y. 



■ooklyn, N.Y. 



(See if Some Friend of Yours is not in the List.) 



R. C. Coleman, Goshen, N.Y. 



Mrs. Samuel Carlisle, Ncwburg, N.Y. 



Dr. C C. Bartholomew, Ogdensburg, N.Y. 



Rev. Nelson Millard, D.D., Rochester, N.Y. 



Rev. Horace G. Hinsdale, D.D., Princeton, N.J. 



Dr. Charles M. Howe, Passaic, N.J. 



George A. Skinner, 5 Railroad Place, Newark, N.J. 



Dr. Edwin M. Howe, 85 HalseySt., Newark, N.J. 



Dr. H. G. Buckingham. Clayton. N.J. 



Dr. Mai tin Cole, Jr., Hainesville, N.J. 



Mortgage Trust Co. of Pa., Philadelphia, Pa. 



Miss Mary Miller, 1230 Spruce St., Philadelphia, Pa. 



Henry D. Biddle, 311^ Walnut St., Philadelph: " 



Pa. 



Dr. Calvin C. Halsey, Montrose, Pa. 



Rev. William Baldwin, Great Bend, Pa. 



Gen. William Lilly, Mauch Chunk, Pa. 



Second Nat. Bank, Mauch Chunk. Pa. 



Enos E. Thatcher, West Chester, Pa. 



Mrs. Townsend Poore, Scranton, Pa. 



Rev. Burdett Hart, D.D., New Haven, Conn. 



Dr. Frank H. Wheeler, New Haven, Conn. 



Charles R. Christy, Stamford, Conn. 



Mrs. Catharine P. Fuller, Woodmont, Conn. 



Miss Jessie Henderson, Leno.x, Mass. 



Dr. M. J. Halloran, Worcester, Mass. 



Albert Walker, Bennington, Vt. 



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