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Amenia and Sharon Land Company.

 Organization

Found in 17 Collections and/or Records:

Amenia and Sharon Land Company Records

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 134-Mss 1596.2-Oversize Collection 11
Abstract The Company was a Cass County Bonanza farm managed and later owned by the late Chaffee family. The collection consists of company records, its subsidiaries, and persons involved.
Dates: 1856-1967

Chaffee Family Collection of Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SC 134
Abstract Correspondence; excerpts from diary (1892-1909) of George L. Dunning, laborer and farm superintendent of Amenia and Sharon farm; genealogical material; term papers; biography of Eben Whitney Chaffee by W.C. Hunter; two interviews with H.L. Chaffee; and brochures relating to Oriente, a community planned for Nicaragua, of which E.W. Chaffee was president.
Dates: 1892-1955

Della Smith Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SC 651
Abstract Typed summary of interview (4 leaves) with Leonard Sackett which concerns the Chaffee family, and F.H. and George N. Smith, brothers who homesteaded north of Amenia, N.D. Includes mention of work at Amenia and Sharon Land Co., rules for hired men including church attendance, the Smith brothers' farm partnership, their terms in the N.D. and S.D. legislatures (F.H. elected to S.D. legislature, George N. to N.D. House, F. Paul to N.D. House), losing the S.D. farmland in the 1920s, business...
Dates: 1955-1956, 1969

Earl T. Carley Interview

 Collection
Identifier: SC 1472
Abstract Typed summary of interview with Hiram Drache concerning the Chaffee family and life in Amenia, N.D. Includes mention of Herbert F., Carrie T., and Eben Chaffee, other Chaffee family members, the death of H.F. Chaffee, the hotel managed by his parents, the Chaffee's disapproval of dancing and card games, the burning of the grain elevators at Amenia, N.D.
Dates: 1967

Emil G. Trapp Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SC 827
Abstract Typed summary of detailed interview (12 leaves) with Leonard Sackett concerning his father, August, who was a laborer on the Watson farm and the August F. Luther farm in Cass County, N.D. Includes mention of the L.F. Watson farm, its buildings, and various hired men, dispersal sale of the Watson farm, August Trapp's last wages, his purchase of farmland near Enderlin, N.D., threshing equipment, Emil's job as stableboy and assistant to the laundress at Amenia and Sharon Land Company, comments on...
Dates: 1957-1958

Farming in the West Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SC 323
Overview This collection contains information about the photograph, the photographer, Nybakken, and several news clippings about the photograph.
Dates: 1934, 1939, 1998-1999.

G. Robert Allison Interview

 Collection
Identifier: SC 1469
Scope and Contents Typed summary of interview with Hiram Drache concerning the Chaffee family and the Amenia and Sharon Land Company.
Dates: 1967

George M. Scott Interviews

 Collection
Identifier: SC 1453
Abstract Typed summary combining two interviews with Leonard Sackett concerning his years while working for Robert Reed of the Amenia and Sharon Land Company. Describes his duties, the Amenia Hotel and its boarders, buildings on Amenia and Sharon Land Co. properties, bathing and laundry facilities, wages, Amenia and Sharon grain elevators, with mention of Edmund Gowland, his son Russell, and Carrie (Mrs. H.F.) Chaffee.
Dates: 1955, 1966

George W. Tracy Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SC 437
Abstract Two detailed interviews (17 leaves and 9 leaves) with Leonard Sackett decribing the Tracy family's experiences at Amenia and Sharon farm, with mention of the farm buildings, other hired men, poor quality food, E.W. Chaffee's rules for hired men, their departure from Amenia and Sharon, George farming at Hunter, N.D., his move to Emmons County, N.D., his freight hauling business and sheep ranch, the Spicer family murders and the ensuing lynching. Typed copy of pamphlet "The Win Tracy story" (14...
Dates: 1955-1958

John H. Pannebaker Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SC 237
Abstract Typed summary of interview (1 leaf) with Leonard Sackett concerning his father, Richard Pannebaker, who moved from Indiana in 1881 to Oriska, N.D., then to Mapleton, N.D., his job as foreman for Mapleton Farming Co., elevator manager at Mapleton and Tower City, N.D., later employed by Amenia and Sharon Land Company. Includes brief mention of the Matt Dill farm which was purchased in 1905 by Miller-Chaffee-Reed Company; John Pannebaker worked there briefly. Also includes newspaper clippings.
Dates: 1954-1957