Marcellus Farmers' Elevator Company Records

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 Note

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.

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Use of the Collection

Preferred Citation

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

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Administrative Information

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.

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Detailed Description of the Collection

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

Series 1: Accounts and Correspondence
- Accountants' Annual Statements
  - Dates: 1914-1923
    
    Container: Box 1, Folder 1
    
    Location: Series 1: Accounts and Correspondence / Accountants' Annual Statements
  - Dates: 1924-1929
    
    Container: Box 1, Folder 2
    
    Location: Series 1: Accounts and Correspondence / Accountants' Annual Statements
  - Dates: 1930-1936
    
    Container: Box 1, Folder 3
    
    Location: Series 1: Accounts and Correspondence / Accountants' Annual Statements
  - Dates: 1937-1943
    
    Container: Box 1, Folder 4
    
    Location: Series 1: Accounts and Correspondence / Accountants' Annual Statements
  - Dates: 1944-1950
    
    Container: Box 1, Folder 5
    
    Location: Series 1: Accounts and Correspondence / Accountants' Annual Statements
  - Dates: 1951-1957
    
    Container: Box 1, Folder 6
    
    Location: Series 1: Accounts and Correspondence / Accountants' Annual Statements
  - Dates: 1958-1959
    
    Container: Box 1, Folder 7
    
    Location: Series 1: Accounts and Correspondence / Accountants' Annual Statements
  - Dates: 1960-1962
    
    Container: Box 1, Folder 8
    
    Location: Series 1: Accounts and Correspondence / Accountants' Annual Statements
- Description: Annual Stockholders' Meetings Records
  64 items.
  
  Dates: 1953
  
  Container: Box 2, Folder 9
  
  Location: Series 1: Accounts and Correspondence
- Description: Amended Articles of Incorporation, Farmers' Elevator Company
  5 items.
  
  Container: Box 2, Folder 10
  
  Location: Series 1: Accounts and Correspondence
- Description: Amended By-Laws, Marcellus Farmers' Elevator Company
  15 items.
  
  Container: Box 2, Folder 11
  
  Location: Series 1: Accounts and Correspondence
- Description: Assets and Amended By-Laws
  16 items.
  
  Dates: 1956-1959
  
  Container: Box 2, Folder 12
  
  Location: Series 1: Accounts and Correspondence
- Description: Excise and Employee Withholding Taxes
  23 items.
  
  Dates: 1935-1943
  
  Container: Box 2, Folder 13
  
  Location: Series 1: Accounts and Correspondence
- Description: German-American Bank of Ritzville, Notes
  1 item.
  
  Dates: 1915
  
  Container: Box 2, Folder 14
  
  Location: Series 1: Accounts and Correspondence
- Description: Insurance Coverage
  15 items.
  
  Container: Box 2, Folder 15
  
  Location: Series 1: Accounts and Correspondence
- Description: Marcellus Farmers' Elevator Company Building Plans
  17 items.
  
  Container: Box 2, Folder 16
  
  Location: Series 1: Accounts and Correspondence
- Description: Merger of the Marcellus Farmers' Elevator Company with the Ritzville Warehouse, Incorporated
  24 items.
  
  Dates: 1963
  
  Container: Box 2, Folder 17
  
  Location: Series 1: Accounts and Correspondence
- Description: Outstanding Shares of Stock
  2 items.
  
  Dates: 1962
  
  Container: Box 2, Folder 18
  
  Location: Series 1: Accounts and Correspondence
- Description: Patronage Dividends and Savings
  5 items.
  
  Dates: 1952-1962
  
  Container: Box 2, Folder 19
  
  Location: Series 1: Accounts and Correspondence
- Description: Patronage Refunds
  17 items.
  
  Dates: 1945-1946
  
  Container: Box 2, Folder 20
  
  Location: Series 1: Accounts and Correspondence
- Description: Personal Property Taxes
  
  Dates: 10
  
  Container: Box 2, Folder 21
  
  Location: Series 1: Accounts and Correspondence
- Description: Property Assessment
  6 items.
  
  Dates: 1942-1945
  
  Container: Box 2, Folder 22
  
  Location: Series 1: Accounts and Correspondence
- Description: Stock Dividends and Loans
  10 items.
  
  Container: Box 2, Folder 23
  
  Location: Series 1: Accounts and Correspondence
- Description: Stockholders' Reports, Insurance
  46 items.
  
  Container: Box 2, Folder 24
  
  Location: Series 1: Accounts and Correspondence
- Description: Stockholder Reports, Marcellus Farmers' Elevator Company
  36 items.
  
  Dates: 1953-1962
  
  Container: Box 2, Folder 25
  
  Location: Series 1: Accounts and Correspondence
- United States Income Tax and Employee Witholding Records
  - Dates: 1946-1958
    
    Container: Box 2, Folder 26
    
    Location: Series 1: Accounts and Correspondence / United States Income Tax and Employee Witholding Records
  - Dates: 1949-1959
    
    Container: Box 2, Folder 27
    
    Location: Series 1: Accounts and Correspondence / United States Income Tax and Employee Witholding Records
  - Dates: 1949-1959
    
    Container: Box 2, Folder 28
    
    Location: Series 1: Accounts and Correspondence / United States Income Tax and Employee Witholding Records
- Description: Wills and Marcellus Farmers' Elevator Company Stock
  14 items.
  
  Container: Box 2, Folder 29
  
  Location: Series 1: Accounts and Correspondence
Series 2: Accounting Records.
- Subseries 2.1: Cash Records.
  - Dates: 1914
    
    Container: Box 2, Folder 30
    
    Location: Series 2: Accounting Records. / Subseries 2.1: Cash Records.
  - Description: Minute Book
    1 item.
    
    Dates: 1914
    
    Container: Box 2, Folder 31
    
    Location: Series 2: Accounting Records. / Subseries 2.1: Cash Records.
  - Dates: 1917-1921
    
    Container: Box 2, Folder 32
    
    Location: Series 2: Accounting Records. / Subseries 2.1: Cash Records.
  - Dates: 1919
    
    Container: Box 2, Folder 33
    
    Location: Series 2: Accounting Records. / Subseries 2.1: Cash Records.
  - Dates: 1922
    
    Container: Box 2, Folder 34
    
    Location: Series 2: Accounting Records. / Subseries 2.1: Cash Records.
  - Dates: 1925-1927
    
    Container: Box 2, Folder 35
    
    Location: Series 2: Accounting Records. / Subseries 2.1: Cash Records.
  - Dates: 1927
    
    Container: Box 2, Folder 36
    
    Location: Series 2: Accounting Records. / Subseries 2.1: Cash Records.
  - Dates: 1927
    
    Container: Box 2, Folder 37
    
    Location: Series 2: Accounting Records. / Subseries 2.1: Cash Records.
  - Dates: 1929
    
    Container: Box 2, Folder 38
    
    Location: Series 2: Accounting Records. / Subseries 2.1: Cash Records.
  - Dates: 1932
    
    Container: Box 2, Folder 39
    
    Location: Series 2: Accounting Records. / Subseries 2.1: Cash Records.
  - Dates: 1935
    
    Container: Box 2, Folder 40
    
    Location: Series 2: Accounting Records. / Subseries 2.1: Cash Records.
  - Dates: 1937
    
    Container: Box 2, Folder 41
    
    Location: Series 2: Accounting Records. / Subseries 2.1: Cash Records.
  - Dates: 1940
    
    Container: Box 2, Folder 42
    
    Location: Series 2: Accounting Records. / Subseries 2.1: Cash Records.
  - Dates: 1942
    
    Container: Box 2, Folder 43
    
    Location: Series 2: Accounting Records. / Subseries 2.1: Cash Records.
  - Dates: 1945
    
    Container: Box 2, Folder 44
    
    Location: Series 2: Accounting Records. / Subseries 2.1: Cash Records.
  - Trial Balance
    - Dates: 1924
      
      Container: Box 2, Folder 45
      
      Location: Series 2: Accounting Records. / Subseries 2.1: Cash Records. / Trial Balance
    - Dates: 1929
      
      Container: Box 2, Folder 46
      
      Location: Series 2: Accounting Records. / Subseries 2.1: Cash Records. / Trial Balance
    - Dates: 1933
      
      Container: Box 2, Folder 47
      
      Location: Series 2: Accounting Records. / Subseries 2.1: Cash Records. / Trial Balance
- Subseries 2.2: Elevator Records
  - Description: Certificates of Debt
    2 items.
    
    Dates: 1954-1955
    
    Container: Box 3, Folder 48
    
    Location: Series 2: Accounting Records. / Subseries 2.2: Elevator Records
  - Description: Certificates of Debt
    3 items.
    
    Dates: 1956-1957
    
    Container: Box 3, Folder 49
    
    Location: Series 2: Accounting Records. / Subseries 2.2: Elevator Records
  - Description: Grain Contracts
    1 item.
    
    Container: Box 3, Folder 50
    
    Location: Series 2: Accounting Records. / Subseries 2.2: Elevator Records
  - Description: Official Grain Standards
    1 item.
    
    Container: Box 3, Folder 51
    
    Location: Series 2: Accounting Records. / Subseries 2.2: Elevator Records
  - Description: Scale Book
    1 item.
    
    Container: Box 3, Folder 52
    
    Location: Series 2: Accounting Records. / Subseries 2.2: Elevator Records
  - Description: Shipping Scale Weights
    1 item.
    
    Container: Box 3, Folder 53
    
    Location: Series 2: Accounting Records. / Subseries 2.2: Elevator Records
  - Description: Warehouse Receipts
    1 item.
    
    Container: Box 3, Folder 54
    
    Location: Series 2: Accounting Records. / Subseries 2.2: Elevator Records
- Subseries 2.3: Journals
  - Description: Dividends
    
    Dates: 1945-1962.
    
    Container: Box 4, Folder 55
    
    Location: Series 2: Accounting Records. / Subseries 2.3: Journals
  - Description: Journal
    1 item.
    
    Dates: 1914
    
    Container: Box 4, Folder 56
    
    Location: Series 2: Accounting Records. / Subseries 2.3: Journals
  - Description: Journal
    1 item.
    
    Dates: 1918
    
    Container: Box 4, Folder 57
    
    Location: Series 2: Accounting Records. / Subseries 2.3: Journals
  - Description: Minutes, Directors' Meetings
    1 item.
    
    Dates: 1916-1926
    
    Container: Box 4, Folder 58
    
    Location: Series 2: Accounting Records. / Subseries 2.3: Journals
  - Description: Minutes, Directors' Meetings
    1 item.
    
    Dates: 1921-1934
    
    Container: Box 4, Folder 59
    
    Location: Series 2: Accounting Records. / Subseries 2.3: Journals
  - Description: Records
    1 item.
    
    Dates: 1929-1939
    
    Container: Box 4, Folder 60
    
    Location: Series 2: Accounting Records. / Subseries 2.3: Journals
  - Description: Voting Members of the Marcellus Farmers' Elevator Company
    1 item.
    
    Dates: January 25, 1963
    
    Container: Box 4, Folder 61
    
    Location: Series 2: Accounting Records. / Subseries 2.3: Journals
- Subseries 2.4: Wheat Shipping Records
  - Personal Records
    - Dates: 1927-1934
      
      Container: Box 4, Folder 62
      
      Location: Series 2: Accounting Records. / Subseries 2.4: Wheat Shipping Records / Personal Records
    - Dates: 1934
      
      Container: Box 4, Folder 63
      
      Location: Series 2: Accounting Records. / Subseries 2.4: Wheat Shipping Records / Personal Records
    - Dates: 1935-1944
      
      Container: Box 4, Folder 64
      
      Location: Series 2: Accounting Records. / Subseries 2.4: Wheat Shipping Records / Personal Records
    - Dates: 1954
      
      Container: Box 4, Folder 65
      
      Location: Series 2: Accounting Records. / Subseries 2.4: Wheat Shipping Records / Personal Records

Marcellus Farmers' Elevator Company Records, 1914-1963

Table of Contents

Overview of the Collection

Historical Note

Use of the Collection

Preferred Citation

Administrative Information

Arrangement

Acquisition Information

Detailed Description of the Collection

Series 1: Accounts and Correspondence

Accountants' Annual Statements

United States Income Tax and Employee Witholding Records

Series 2: Accounting Records.

Subseries 2.1: Cash Records.

Trial Balance

Subseries 2.2: Elevator Records

Subseries 2.3: Journals

Subseries 2.4: Wheat Shipping Records

Personal Records

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