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The Odell and Cozad Abstracting Companies were two land title search companies owned, respectively, by Jay Odell and Justus
L. Cozad, and which operated in Cleveland, Ohio, in the late nineteenth century. Merged for the period 1870-1875, these companies
were usually competitors in the business of supplying summaries, or abstracts, of the public records pertaining to land titles
in Cuyahoga County, Ohio. The collection consists of 269 bound volumes pertaining to the process of abstracting land titles
in Cuyahoga County, Ohio. They consist specifically of 163 volumes of Odell search books and 98 volumes of Cozad search books;
two indexes; four subdivision books, in which the conveyances of numbered lots in recorded subdivisions are listed; an Odell
copy book, which includes a collection of formal abstracts written for clients; and a Cozad foundation book, in which are
copied the founding documents of the Connecticut Land Company.
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