Marcellus Farmers' Elevator Company Records

Marcellus Farmers' Elevator Company Records, 1914-1963

Overview of the Collection

Creator: Marcellus Farmers' Elevator Company
Title: Marcellus Farmers' Elevator Company Records
Dates: 1914-1963 (inclusive)
19141963
Quantity: 4 containers., (3.5 linear feet of shelf space.), (578 items.)
Collection Number: Cage 520
Summary: Correspondence, accounting records, elevator records, and journals.
Repository: Washington State University Libraries' Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections (MASC)
Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections
Terrell Library Suite 12
Pullman, WA
99164-5610
Telephone: 509-335-6691
mascref@wsu.edu
Access Restrictions: This collection is open for research use.
Languages: English
Sponsor: Funding for encoding this finding aid was provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Historical NoteReturn to Top

In 1914, Marcellus area farmers formed the Marcellus Farmers' Elevator Company as a farmers' cooperative enterprise. The company stored and sold local grain, and also stocked and sold everything from fence posts and gasoline to farm implements, and provided credit to farmers. In 1927, the company built a grain elevator, which it expanded in the 1950's. The business was sold to a larger warehouse firm in the 1960s.

Use of the CollectionReturn to Top

Preferred Citation

[Item Description]. Cage 520, Marcellus Farmers' Elevator Company Records. Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries, Pullman, WA.

Administrative InformationReturn to Top

Arrangement

The records falls into two series, the first consisting of accounting records and miscellaneous correspondence, and the second of elevator records and journals. The correspondence also includes records of stockholder meetings, by-laws, and tax records. The cash, elevator, and journal records list various transactions between the elevator and its customers, beginning in 1914 and going through 1962.

Acquisition Information

Records of the Marcellus Farmers' Elevator Company, Adams County, were received by the Washington State University Libraries in 1981 through the efforts of Richard Old, then a graduate student in Botany at the university.

Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top

The following section contains a detailed listing of the materials in the collection.

Series 1: Accounts and CorrespondenceReturn to Top

Container(s)		Description	Dates
		Accountants' Annual Statements
Box	Folder
1	1	5 items.	1914-1923
1	2	7 items.	1924-1929
1	3	7 items.	1930-1936
1	4	7 items.	1937-1943
1	5	7 items.	1944-1950
1	6	9 items.	1951-1957
1	7	7 items.	1958-1959
1	8	10 items.	1960-1962
Box	Folder
2	9	Annual Stockholders' Meetings Records 64 items.	1953
2	10	Amended Articles of Incorporation, Farmers' Elevator Company 5 items.
2	11	Amended By-Laws, Marcellus Farmers' Elevator Company 15 items.
2	12	Assets and Amended By-Laws 16 items.	1956-1959
2	13	Excise and Employee Withholding Taxes 23 items.	1935-1943
2	14	German-American Bank of Ritzville, Notes 1 item.	1915
2	15	Insurance Coverage 15 items.
2	16	Marcellus Farmers' Elevator Company Building Plans 17 items.
2	17	Merger of the Marcellus Farmers' Elevator Company with the Ritzville Warehouse, Incorporated 24 items.	1963
2	18	Outstanding Shares of Stock 2 items.	1962
2	19	Patronage Dividends and Savings 5 items.	1952-1962
2	20	Patronage Refunds 17 items.	1945-1946
2	21	Personal Property Taxes	10
2	22	Property Assessment 6 items.	1942-1945
2	23	Stock Dividends and Loans 10 items.
2	24	Stockholders' Reports, Insurance 46 items.
2	25	Stockholder Reports, Marcellus Farmers' Elevator Company 36 items.	1953-1962
		United States Income Tax and Employee Witholding Records
Box	Folder
2	26	55 items.	1946-1958
2	27	54 items.	1949-1959
2	28	46 items.	1949-1959
Box	Folder
2	29	Wills and Marcellus Farmers' Elevator Company Stock 14 items.

Series 2: Accounting Records.Return to Top

Container(s)		Description	Dates
		Subseries 2.1: Cash Records.
Box	Folder
2	30	1 item.	1914
2	31	Minute Book 1 item.	1914
2	32	1 item.	1917-1921
2	33	1 item.	1919
2	34	1 item.	1922
2	35	1 item.	1925-1927
2	36	1 item.	1927
2	37	1 item.	1927
2	38	1 item.	1929
2	39	1 item.	1932
2	40	1 item.	1935
2	41	1 item.	1937
2	42	1 item.	1940
2	43	1 item.	1942
2	44	1 item.	1945
		Trial Balance
Box	Folder
2	45	1 item.	1924
2	46	1 item.	1929
2	47	1 item.	1933
		Subseries 2.2: Elevator Records
Box	Folder
3	48	Certificates of Debt 2 items.	1954-1955
3	49	Certificates of Debt 3 items.	1956-1957
3	50	Grain Contracts 1 item.
3	51	Official Grain Standards 1 item.
3	52	Scale Book 1 item.
3	53	Shipping Scale Weights 1 item.
3	54	Warehouse Receipts 1 item.
		Subseries 2.3: Journals
Box	Folder
4	55	Dividends	1945-1962.
4	56	Journal 1 item.	1914
4	57	Journal 1 item.	1918
4	58	Minutes, Directors' Meetings 1 item.	1916-1926
4	59	Minutes, Directors' Meetings 1 item.	1921-1934
4	60	Records 1 item.	1929-1939
4	61	Voting Members of the Marcellus Farmers' Elevator Company 1 item.	January 25, 1963
		Subseries 2.4: Wheat Shipping Records
		Personal Records
Box	Folder
4	62	1 item.	1927-1934
4	63	1 item.	1934
4	64	1 item.	1935-1944
4	65	1 item.	1954

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