University of Wyoming
Baughman Farms was originally owned by John and Ella (Williamson) Bowman in 1902. Their son, Robert, worked with his father in the farm’s operations and eventually became supervisor of 75,000 acres of Baughman land holdings in Colorado. Robert’s son, John Baughman II, also joined the business. In 1902 John Baughman II’s family moved to Plains Kansas where John and Don Edwards established a rail estate business. In 1910 they moved to Liberal, Kansas. After accumulating land in Oklahoma and extensive acreages in Kansas, Baughman began buying in eastern Colorado in 1916. Around 1942, he discontinued his real estate business and dedicated his attention to farming operations.
Collection contains correspondence; bank statements; closed contracts and miscellaneous deeds; daily reports; farm leases; ledgers; pamphlets of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Kansas State Labor Department, the Kansas State Geological Survey; publications concerning wheat, vegetable crops, grass, livestock and meat, and tax preparation; Supreme Court case records; alphabetical subject files concerning the Baughman Farms; field reports; cattle and land transactions; miscellaneous financial records that include leases, tax receipts, and travel expenses; some records of Baughman Ranches, Inc.; partnership documentation; diaries; and records of Oliver S. Brown, Ray Forbes Hereford Cattle, Speakman Investman Company, Vic Roth, A. W. Erickson, and Frank Hewitt.
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This material was received from Anschutz Corporation in July 1973.
There are no known other archival collections created by Baughman Farms at the date of processing.
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