Amenia and Sharon Land Company.
Organization
Found in 17 Collections and/or Records:
John Horace Reed Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC 1521
Abstract
Typed copies of two poems, "A Yankee farmer in the new west" and "A legend of Hitchcock's corner," from his Three score and ten and extracts from his diary covering March 1885 to August 9, 1925 concerning activities in his life and various Chaffee family members.
Dates:
1884-1925
John Miller Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 84
Abstract
Copies of correspondence, biography by William C. Hunter, and clippings, relating to Miller's career and his various business interests, including Dwight Farm and Amenia and Sharon Land Company.
Dates:
1908-1970
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
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John Miller Papers
Manor Farms Crop Records (Amenia & Sharon Land Company)
Collection
Identifier: Mss 3068
Overview
This collection contains the records pertaining to the 1924 crops that have records for variety of crops including wheat, barley, flax, oats, corn, and clover. The collection is arranged by section number. The records include receipts, and notes on how much of each crop was purchased.
Dates:
1924
Peter J. Walburg Interview
Collection
Identifier: SC 498
Abstract
Letter, typed summary of interview (15 leaves) concerning J.B. Power, Helendale Farm, Amenia and Sharon Land Company, and his father Peter Walburg, a Swiss immigrant. Includes mention of their homestead near the Maple River, his work on Dalrymple No. 1 Farm, son Peter's first jobs as mule driver, choreboy, and herding horses for the Dalrymples, cutting wood at Helendale Farm, his father, and later Martin Hanson, hauling mail, Helendale Farm's soil, selling out and moving to Leonard, N.D.,...
Dates:
1955.
Robert B. Reed Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 438
Abstract
Typed summary of first interview (12 leaves) with Leonard Sackett includes mention of the Chaffee family, Helendale Farm, description of a round grain elevator at Amenia, handling grain, his uncle, Cornelius Reed, who worked at the Amenia grain elevator, plows and grain binders used at Amenia and Sharon, Amenia store, description of various sections of Amenia and Sharon land, Robert and John Reed buying cattle and sheep, raising sheep at the Amenia and Sharon, the Reed-Sargent farm partnership...
Dates:
1955-1960.
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
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Robert B. Reed Papers
Thorfin Jesten Interview
Collection
Identifier: SC 1056
Overview
This collection contains a typed summary of interview (4 leaves) with Leonard Sackett on August 28, 1954, concerning his life, with mention of Mrs. Chaffee, his various farm and railroad jobs. Corrections to the interview done by H.L. Chaffee.
Dates:
August 28, 1954
William Lewis Guy, Senior Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC 960
Overview
This collection contains a small autobiography of William Guy, Sr., some correspondence, and a biography of his wife.
Dates:
1960-1967.