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.

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.

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.

Abstract Family history material, interview with Earl and Beatrice Lundwall Elwell, mention of the Chaffee family, especially of H.F. Chaffee, his wife, Carrie Toogood Chaffee, various jobs Earl held at Amenia and Sharon Land Company, electrostatic copy of Peter A. Lundwall's citizenship certificate (1894), and newspaper clippings on various family members.