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Farm corporations -- North Dakota.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 10 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

Baldwin Corporation Records

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 160
Abstract The Company was founded in 1898 and was based in Appleton, Wisconsin with large land holdings (75,000 acres) in Dickey Country, ND. The collection consists of personal family papers of George Baldwin (1830-1907), its founder; his son, George B. Baldwin (1876-1949); and Charles F. Baldwin (1879-1947), as well as other family members. The extensive business records, beginning in 1853, cover Mr. Baldwin's early legal and land interests, the Baldwin Land Company, his estate and the Baldwin...
Dates: 1823-1954 (bulk 1898-1936)

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

Charles S. Farnsworth Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 616
Abstract Career military man who saw action in conflicts with Native Americans, the Spanish-American War, and World War I.
Dates: 1888-1955.

Dalrymple Farms Records

 Collection
Identifier: SC 67
Abstract Correspondence, including letter (1880) to A.R. Dalrymple from Oliver Dalrymple; interviews with Erasmus G. Hagen, John Hanson, Joseph Hanson, Ralph L. Miller, David and Nellie Minnis, and John H. Pannebaker; index to articles concerning bonanza farms and the Dalrymples; financial statements (1907, 1910, 1918); inventories (1908-1909, 1911-1917, 1919), and cultivation statements, crop disposition, and crop income and distribution statements (1908-1919); and clippings relating to Oliver and...
Dates: 1880-ca. 1950

Dewell E. Viker Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SC 108
Abstract Correspondence, interview, legal material, map, and newspaper clippings, relating to Viker's purchase of Grandin Farm Trust (formerly Grandin Farm No. 1), bonanza farm headquartered in Mayville, Traill County, N.D., in 1946.
Dates: 1946-1958

Grandin Farms Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 2890
Abstract Materials relating to Grandin Farms, bonanza wheat farm in Cass and Traill counties, N.D., founded 1876 by Grandin brothers, John L. and W.J. Grandin (originally of Tidoute, Pa.), stockholders of Northern Pacific Railroad, who came to North Dakota to claim railroad land.
Dates: 1879-1960.

James W. McNary Records

 Collection
Identifier: SC 102
Abstract Typed summary of interview (1 leaf) with Leonard Sackett concerning Baldwin Farms, his salary, introduction of alfalfa, plowing; typed copy of speech (5 leaves) entitled "What professional farm management stands for," typed copy of a newspaper clipping "Does farming pay," by A.E. Winship (1930) which mentions McNary's setting up a young unnamed Russian farmer in farming, newspaper clipping of Baldwin elevator being moved (1943), sale of the last pieces of land owned by Baldwin Corporation...
Dates: 1930-1953

Sinner Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SC 107
Abstract Clippings which mention the SB & B partnership, a Sinner family reunion, various Sinner family members, and a letter, dated Sept. 25, 1964, from President Lyndon B. Johnson.
Dates: 1953-1998.

William Keating Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SC 350
Overview This collection contains correspondence and interviews with William Keating's sons John Keating and Peter Keating.
Dates: 1925-1963.