St. Clair County
Land Deeds & Patents

Henry Hoover
5 February 1891

The United States of America,
Homestead Certificate No. 4538
Application 12199
To All To Whom These Presents Shall Come, Greeting:
Whereas there has been deposited in the General Land Office of the United States a Certificate of the Register of the Land Office at Boonville Missouri, whereby it appears that, pursuant to the Act of Congress approved 20th May, 1862,”To secure Homesteads to actual settlers on the public domain,” and the act supplemental thereto, the claim of Henry Hoover has been established and duly consummated in conformity to law for the
South half of the South West quarter of Section ten and the North half of the North West quarter of Section fifteen in Township thirty nine North of Range twenty four West of the Fifth Principal Meridian in Missouri containing one hundred and sixty acres
according to the Official Plat of the Survey of the said Land returned to the General Land Office by the Surveyor General.
Now know ye, That there is therefore granted by the United States unto the said Henry Hoover and to his heirs and assigns forever.
In testimony whereof, I, Benjamin Harrison
President of the United States of America, have caused these letters to be made Patent, and the Seal of the General Land Office to be hereunto affixed.
Given under my hand, at the City of Washington, the fifth day of Februar,y in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety one, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and fifteenth.
By the President: Benjamin Harrison
By M. McKean Sec’y.
J.M. Townsend, Recorder of the General Land Office.