The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1910-12-15
ANCIENT DEED
70 CAIRO LAND
ORIGINAL DOCUMENT RELATING
TO GROUND OCCUPIED BY
ALEXANDER CLUE NOME
RECORD TRACED TO 1878
IN Letter BY Judge John M. Lansden
Presenting Decd to Officers
Of Club--Indians Orig.
inal Owners.

An interesting document has come
INTO the hands OF the officers of the
Alexander club through Judge John
VI. Lansden who has for a long time
past been delving into old papers
md records pertaining to Cairo In
connection with his history OF III
ity. 1t Is an old deed, yellow with
age. but well preserved in every de-
all, and is best described in the let
ter which accompanied it, as follows
Cairo, Ill, Dec 8, 1910.
Mr. John S. Aistho:pe, Cairo, Illinois.
Dear Mr. Aisthorpe: VIII YOU
please hand to the custodian CT the
title deeds and other records of the
Alexander Club the inclosed deed
from Thomas 5. Taylor and Charles
Davis, trustees Of the Caro- City
Property, to Andrew ]. Knykendall
for lots and 2, in block 81, In the
City Of Cairo, on which your fine club
building now stands.
MS uttu ut5ti YES very tdfelui
preservation for three or four rea
sons:
It FEARS date the first day that lots
"ere offered for sale in Cairo after
ne ancient year of 1918 The tiol
irook people, from 1896 to 1916, sold
10 lots; long leases represented
their real estate theory and practice:
md the Trustees of the Cairo City
Properly sold nothing for TX years,
'rpc -, 1916, to December 90, 1853
he day of the date of this deed This
ate end deed represent the close OF
lcnt real estate po;:cy which occa.
.ic"r mHch complaint October G
$40. the Trustees advertised their
great sale very extensively. and the
came was opened December %, 1853,
which may be said to be the date of
The beginning of The present city OF
Cairo
Then, too num6er Of our citizens,
mong them possibly yourself, will
recall who the grantee in the deed
vas Andrew J. EuKykendall, OF
Vienna, 40 northeast of us. He was
in many respects a renarkat!e man.
# great natural talent, making ~
'argelg for the lack in early life OF
what we call 4 good education; quite
politician; in our House of Repre-
5entatiyes one term; in our senate
light full terms, and voting against
he Incorporation Of the Cairo City
Property Trust; our member Of CON
gross in lSG5-1SG7 appearing in thH
I'D postoffice picture of July 1856
wherein Generals Grant and McClern
md appear as the central figures, he
standing next to a very tail man on
he right and both of them wearing
Ugh hats. In a word, Major Kuyken.
all Of the 3lst Regiment Of Illinois
'tlNrtecrs, was one of the mos
recruitment men Of the County o.
~ n, one Of the Oldest counties
the state The %lst was John 4
ogars,
or chain Of title contains MANY
oied ana honorable link5-It he
,nged to the Indians first: then to
the French until l7G3; then to the
English until 1888 then to Unclc
samuel until 1917; then to the Birds
until 1896; then to the Cairo City &
Canal Company until 1886; then tc
the Cairo City Property until Deem
| Der Is, 1853; then to Maicf Kuyken
aall: then to Russell and Willifor'
| then to their heirs; then to e A
Burnett and David s. Lansden. am
then and lastly to the right honorable
Alexander club, which We hone vii
| continue to hold the property unit
the return of the Indians, against
| whom 1t may difficult TO show a good
| title except by virtue Of the statute
| Of limitations,