Washington State University Libraries Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections
Guide to the Marcellus Farmers'
Elevator Company Records
1914-1963
Cage
520
Table of Contents
Summary Information
- Repository
- Washington State University Libraries, Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections
- Creator
- Marcellus Farmers' Elevator Company
- Title
- Marcellus Farmers' Elevator Company Records
- ID
- Cage 520
- Date [inclusive]
- 1914-1963
- Extent
- 4 containers., 3.5 linear feet of shelf space., 578 items.
- Language
- Collection materials are in English.
- Abstract
- Correspondence, accounting records, elevator records, and journals.
Preferred Citation
[Item Description]. Cage 520, Marcellus Farmers' Elevator Company Records. Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries, Pullman, WA.
Biography/History
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.
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.
Administrative Information
Publication Information
Washington State University Libraries Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections © 2012
http://www.libraries.wsu.edu/masc/
Terrell Library
P.O. Box 645610
Pullman, WA, 99164-5610 USA
509-335-6691
mascref@wsu.edu
Restrictions on Access
This collection is open for research use.
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.
Names and Subjects
Corporate Name(s)
Creator(s) :
- Marcellus Farmer's Elevator Company --Archives
Subject(s)
- Grain elevators, Cooperative--Washington (State)--Adams County
- Grain elevators, Cooperative--Washington (State)--Marcellus
- Agriculture
- Business, Industry, and Labor
- Washington (State)
Detailed Description of Collection
Series 1: Accounts and Correspondence |
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Accountants' Annual Statements |
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box | folder | |||
1914-1923 5 items. |
1 | 1 | ||
1924-1929 7 items. |
1 | 2 | ||
1930-1936 7 items. |
1 | 3 | ||
1937-1943 7 items. |
1 | 4 | ||
1944-1950 7 items. |
1 | 5 | ||
1951-1957 9 items. |
1 | 6 | ||
1958-1959 7 items. |
1 | 7 | ||
1960-1962 10 items. |
1 | 8 | ||
box | folder | |||
Annual Stockholders' Meetings Records 1953 64 items. |
2 | 9 | ||
Amended Articles of Incorporation, Farmers' Elevator Company 5 items. |
2 | 10 | ||
Amended By-Laws, Marcellus Farmers' Elevator Company 15 items. |
2 | 11 | ||
Assets and Amended By-Laws 1956-1959 16 items. |
2 | 12 | ||
Excise and Employee Withholding Taxes 1935-1943 23 items. |
2 | 13 | ||
German-American Bank of Ritzville, Notes 1915 1 item. |
2 | 14 | ||
Insurance Coverage 15 items. |
2 | 15 | ||
Marcellus Farmers' Elevator Company Building Plans 17 items. |
2 | 16 | ||
Merger of the Marcellus Farmers' Elevator Company with the Ritzville Warehouse, Incorporated 1963 24 items. |
2 | 17 | ||
Outstanding Shares of Stock 1962 2 items. |
2 | 18 | ||
Patronage Dividends and Savings 1952-1962 5 items. |
2 | 19 | ||
Patronage Refunds 1945-1946 17 items. |
2 | 20 | ||
Personal Property Taxes 10 |
2 | 21 | ||
Property Assessment 1942-1945 6 items. |
2 | 22 | ||
Stock Dividends and Loans 10 items. |
2 | 23 | ||
Stockholders' Reports, Insurance 46 items. |
2 | 24 | ||
Stockholder Reports, Marcellus Farmers' Elevator Company 1953-1962 36 items. |
2 | 25 | ||
United States Income Tax and Employee Witholding Records |
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box | folder | |||
1946-1958 55 items. |
2 | 26 | ||
1949-1959 54 items. |
2 | 27 | ||
1949-1959 46 items. |
2 | 28 | ||
box | folder | |||
Wills and Marcellus Farmers' Elevator Company Stock 14 items. |
2 | 29 | ||
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Series 2: Accounting Records. |
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Subseries 2.1: Cash Records. |
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box | folder | |||
1914 1 item. |
2 | 30 | ||
Minute Book 1914 1 item. |
2 | 31 | ||
1917-1921 1 item. |
2 | 32 | ||
1919 1 item. |
2 | 33 | ||
1922 1 item. |
2 | 34 | ||
1925-1927 1 item. |
2 | 35 | ||
1927 1 item. |
2 | 36 | ||
1927 1 item. |
2 | 37 | ||
1929 1 item. |
2 | 38 | ||
1932 1 item. |
2 | 39 | ||
1935 1 item. |
2 | 40 | ||
1937 1 item. |
2 | 41 | ||
1940 1 item. |
2 | 42 | ||
1942 1 item. |
2 | 43 | ||
1945 1 item. |
2 | 44 | ||
Trial Balance |
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box | folder | |||
1924 1 item. |
2 | 45 | ||
1929 1 item. |
2 | 46 | ||
1933 1 item. |
2 | 47 | ||
Subseries 2.2: Elevator Records |
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box | folder | |||
Certificates of Debt 1954-1955 2 items. |
3 | 48 | ||
Certificates of Debt 1956-1957 3 items. |
3 | 49 | ||
Grain Contracts 1 item. |
3 | 50 | ||
Official Grain Standards 1 item. |
3 | 51 | ||
Scale Book 1 item. |
3 | 52 | ||
Shipping Scale Weights 1 item. |
3 | 53 | ||
Warehouse Receipts 1 item. |
3 | 54 | ||
Subseries 2.3: Journals |
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box | folder | |||
Dividends 1945-1962. |
4 | 55 | ||
Journal 1914 1 item. |
4 | 56 | ||
Journal 1918 1 item. |
4 | 57 | ||
Minutes, Directors' Meetings 1916-1926 1 item. |
4 | 58 | ||
Minutes, Directors' Meetings 1921-1934 1 item. |
4 | 59 | ||
Records 1929-1939 1 item. |
4 | 60 | ||
Voting Members of the Marcellus Farmers' Elevator Company January 25, 1963 1 item. |
4 | 61 | ||
Subseries 2.4: Wheat Shipping Records |
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Personal Records |
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box | folder | |||
1927-1934 1 item. |
4 | 62 | ||
1934 1 item. |
4 | 63 | ||
1935-1944 1 item. |
4 | 64 | ||
1954 1 item. |
4 | 65 | ||
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