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Agricultural Collections - Business, Agribusiness, and Marketing
AGRIBUSINESS ACCOUNTABILITY PROJECT. Records, 1954-1976, n.d.
Extent: 14.7 linear feet.
Number: MS-068.
Description: Public interest organization founded in 1970 and based in Washington, D.C. The Agribusiness Accountability Project was the joint endeavor of three Washington public interest groups: the Project on Corporate Responsibility, the Center for Community Change, and the Washington Research Project. It was funded by the Field Foundation and staffed by Jerry J. Berman, Jim Hightower, Nancy Mills, and Philip Sorensen. Initially concerned with migrant and seasonal farm workers, it soon turned to additional issues such as corporate power in agriculture, the land grant college system, cooperatives, rural social movements, and tax loss farming. The project resulted in the books Hard Tomatoes, Hard Times: The Failure of the Land Grant College Complex (1972) and Eat Your Heart Out: Food Profiteering in America (1975), both written by Jim Hightower. Collection includes correspondence, reports, newspaper clippings, press releases, statements and testimony, scripts, memoranda, and printed materials. It also contains manuscripts and research notes for Hard Tomatoes, Hard Times and Eat Your Heart Out.
Status: Processed.
Finding Aid: Online.
AGRICULTURE DAY. Records, 1973-1983.
Extent: 5.75 linear feet.
Number: MS-066.
Description: Celebration designed to increase interest and understanding by the American public in agriculture and in producers of food and fabric. The first Agriculture Day took place on March 26, 1973, with David S. Bennett of Miller Publishing Company as chair. By 1975 it was a national event sponsored by the National Agri-Marketing Association (NAMA). Funding for the event has been through the American Agriculture Day Foundation. Collection contains addresses, correspondence, photographs, news releases and other promotional materials, slides, films, videotapes, and minutes of meetings.
Status: Processed.
Finding Aid: Online.
ALMANAC COLLECTION, 1878-1962.
Extent: 1.05 linear feet.
Number: MS-233.
Description: Collection consists of almanacs published by a variety of establishments. They include farmer's almanacs, herbalist's almanacs, and household almanacs. The almanacs are arranged alphabetically by title, with names and locations of companies as well as dates noted in the finding aid.
Status: Processed.
Finding Aid: Online.
CHRYSTAL, JOHN (1925- ). Papers, n.d., 1893-1998.
Extent: 9.37 linear feet (16 manuscript boxes and 2 oversize boxes)
Number: MS-422.
Description: Banker, farmer, and agricultural leader. John Chrystal studied economics at the University of Iowa and farmed with his brother in Coon Rapids, Iowa, after World War II. Chrystal then became a banker in Coon Rapids and served as state superintendent of banking under Governor Harold E. Hughes (1963-1969). He was president of the Iowa Savings Bank, then president and chief executive officer of Bankers Trust in Des Moines, Iowa (1984-1989). The nephew of Roswell Garst, Chrystal was also a partner in the Garst Seed Company. Chrystal traveled extensively in the Soviet Union, meeting with Soviet officials. He ran for governor of Iowa in the 1990 Democratic primary but lost. Collection includes manuscripts of speeches, correspondence, awards, photographs, and news clippings. Correspondents include John Culver, Lowell L. Junkins, Victor F. Lischenko, and Lydia V. Ospinnikova.
Status: Processed.
Finding Aid: Online.
DOUGLASS MUTUAL LIVESTOCK ASSOCIATION. Ledger, 1880-1899.
Extent: 0.21 linear feet.
Number: MS-333.
Description: Organization in Pottstown, Berks County, Pennsylvania, that insured horses, cows, and mules against sickness and death. Ledger contains association minutes for 1880-1899.
Status: Processed.
Finding Aid: Online.
EKLUND FARM SUPPLY CO. Records, 1944-1950.
Extent: 9.87 linear feet.
Number: MS-177.
Description: Farm supply company in Boone, Iowa, owned and operated by Carl Elmer Eklund until it went out of business in 1949. The Ecklund Farm Supply Company sold tractors, farm implements, and livestock equipment as well as general merchandise like appliances, bicycles, and radios. Collection includes advertising, correspondence with vendors, invoices, sales receipts, and tax forms.
Status: Processed.
Finding Aid: Available in Special Collections.
ELLIS AND ELLIS, INC. Records, 1913-1949, n.d.
Extent: 4.2 linear feet.
Number: MS-556.
Description: Investment company in Charles City, Iowa. The company invested in stocks, bonds, and real estate, including many farm properties and the Sherman Nursery Company. The company was dissolved in 1949. The collection contains ledgers (including farm accounts), correspondence, legal documents, liquidation papers, tax documents, and financial records.
Status: Processed.
Finding Aid: Online.
GARST, ROSWELL (1898-1977). Papers, 1919-2005.
Extent: 43.26 linear feet.
Number: RS 21/07/12.
Description: Iowa agriculturist, innovator, and founder of Garst and Thomas Hybrid Corn Company. Roswell Garst was born in 1898 and grew up in Coon Rapids, Iowa. He attended Iowa State University and Northwestern University, but did not earn a degree. In 1926, Garst was living in Des Moines, Iowa, where he became acquainted with Henry A. Wallace, then editor of Wallaces' Farmer. Wallace interested him in the hybrid seed corn business, and Garst returned to Coon Rapids in 1930 to plant fifteen acres of hybrid corn in cooperation with Wallace. A year later Garst founded the Garst and Thomas Hybrid Corn Company in partnership with another Coon Rapids farmer, Charles W. Thomas. Garst aggressively promoted hybridization, mechanization, fertilization, and utilization of cellulose as fodder for cattle. He also advocated the use of herbicides, pesticides, and irrigation in the United States and abroad to achieve dramatic increases in agricultural productivity. Garst contributed toward improving East-West relations through agricultural exchanges and the transfer of American agricultural technology to the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. Collection contains biographical materials, correspondence, news clippings, articles, and documents related to Garst's company and farms. Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev's 1959 visit to the Garst home in Coon Rapids is documented through correspondence, photographs, gifts, news clippings, and publications. There are also materials concerning trade transactions with the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, and reports on grain production in South America and other regions of the world. Correspondents include John F. Kennedy, Henry A. Wallace, Walter Mondale, and members of the U.S. House of Representatives.
Status: Processed.
Finding Aid: Online.
GARST AND THOMAS HYBRID CORN COMPANY. Records, 1933-1972.
Extent: 99.84 linear feet.
Number: MS-173.
Description: Hybrid seed corn company founded in Coon Rapids, Iowa, in 1931 by Roswell Garst and Charles W. Thomas. During the 1930s, Garst traveled thousands of miles of country roads selling the company's seed corn with great success. He distributed more than 10,000 sample bags of seed corn in western Iowa and Nebraska as a way of marketing his product. By the end of the decade, representatives of Garst and Thomas sold hybrid seed corn to farmers in Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Colorado. In 1955, Garst traveled to the Soviet Union and Romania, selling hybrid seed corn there and beginning a tradition of sales to Eastern Europe. By the mid-1960s, the Garst and Thomas company produced 5% of all hybrid seed corn produced in the United States. The Garsts bought out the Thomas partners in the business in 1982, renaming it the Garst Seed Company. The Garst company was acquired in 1985 by the ICI Group, a chemical company with headquarters in the United Kingdom, and Garst Seed became ICI Seeds, Inc., in 1991. Collection includes correspondence and insurance, financial, and shipping records.
Status: Processed.
Finding Aid: Online.
HANYAN, S. E. Records, 1864-1910.
Extent: 2.25 linear feet (1 manuscript box, 2 half manuscript boxes, and 1 oversize box).
Number: MS-004.
Description: Records of a flour mill in Panora, Iowa, partly owned by J. H. Hanyan; and records of a hardware store in Panora owned by S. E. Hanyan. The Hanyan & Nichols Mill began as a sawmill in 1852 but was soon converted into a flour mill. The mill was torn down aound 1860, and a new mill was built by a Mr. Beaman, who in 1863 sold half-interest to J. H. Hanyan. Beaman's half-interest was purchased in 1864 by S. D. Nichols, Hanyan's son-in-law. The mill was operated as Hanyan & Nichols until 1878 when Nichols assumed full ownership. From 1875 to 1879, it was operated as Jackson & Garlow, a shelf and heavy hardware store. Several changes occurred in rapid succession until 1881 when Hanyan bought into the firm and Garlow & Hanyan was formed. Sometime between 1888 and 1899, S. E. Hanyan assumed full ownership of the business. Collection consists of a Hanyan & Nichols mill book (1864-1872, 1885); a letterpress copybook of correspondence of Jackson & Garlow (1875-1879) and Garlow & Hanyan (1879-1888); a ledger book for Garlow & Hanyan (1885-1888); and ledger books for S. E. Hanyan (1899-1905, 1907-1910).
Status: Processed.
Finding Aid: Online.
HOSKINS, ROBERT N. (1917- ). Papers, 1945-1977.
Extent: 7.33 linear feet.
Number: RS 21/07/10.
Description: Industrial forester and industrial agribusiness consultant. Born in 1917 in Keota, Iowa, Robert Hoskins attended the University of Missouri from 1934-1937, then graduated from Iowa State University in 1939. He worked as a forester for the Baker State Forest [Missouri] Commission from 1939 to 1941, then as an extension forester for the Florida Forest Service from 1941 to 1945. As an industrial forester, he worked for the Seaboard Air Line Railroad Company (later named the Seaboard Coast Line Railroad Company) from 1945 to 1979, eventually serving as vice president of forestry and special projects. After 1979, Hoskins became an agribusiness consultant. He served on a number of forestry committees and commissions in Virginia, North Carolina, and Florida, accumulating numerous awards for his service to the industry. Collection contains correspondence, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, and photographs.
Status: Processed.
Finding Aid: Available in Special Collections.
IOWA SEED AND NURSERY PAMPHLETS COLLECTION. 1939-1966, n.d..
Extent: 0.21 linear feet.
Number: MS-393.
Description: Collection contains leaflets, pamphlets, brochures, and price lists from seed and nursery companies located in the state of Iowa. The leaflets, pamphlets and brochures often contain listings of products, prices, brief product descriptions, a description of the company and ordering information.
Status: Processed.
Finding Aid: Online.
MCCALL FAMILY. Papers, 1816-1929, n.d.
Extent: 8.22 linear feet.
Number: MS-001.
Description: Land agents. Thomas C. McCall (1827-1892) was born in Ohio and came to Iowa with his parents in 1836. He lived in Des Moines and Nevada, Iowa, and was a government land agent. During the Civil War McCall served as quartermaster in the 3rd Iowa Regiment. After the war he became a leader in Republican circles in Story County, serving as a member of the 9th (1865), 19th (1884), and 20th (1885) assemblies, and as a member of the state central committee of the Republican Party. Through the years he became an extensive landowner, at one time owning over 3,000 acres. Fred C. McCall (1868- ?), first son of Thomas C. McCall and his second wife Mary A. Boynton, attended Iowa State University and in 1889 entered the real estate business with his father. Fred McCall, who was an ardent Mason, was appointed postmaster in Nevada in 1902. He married Alice Klove in 1890, and after her death married Edith V. Ferner, with whom he had two children, Thomas Clifton and Elva Hazel. Collection contains business and personal correspondence; Civil War letters, a diary, and Union Army records; and warranty deeds, leases, tract records, legal notices, tax receipts and deeds, mortgages, and other papers relating to the real estate transactions and personal activities of Thomas and Fred McCall. Business correspondents include B. F. Allen, Bigelow and Chamberlin, Callaman and Ingham, Casady and Polk, Augustus Emory, J. B. Grinnell, W. C. Gunn, H. M. Hoxie, F. M. Hubbell, I. W. Ingersoll, Leas and Harsh, Henry B. Munn, Office and Pusey, and Hoyt Sherman.
Status: Processed.
Finding Aid: Online.
MEGOWN, JOHN WILLIAM (1931- ). Papers, 1961-1984.
Extent: 2.94 linear feet.
Number: MS-101.
Description: Businessman active in the promotion of agriculture. John William Megown received an A.B. (1953) and an M.S. (1955) from the University of Missouri. He joined Vigortone Products Company in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, in 1968 and was made vice president for public affairs and governmental relations in 1980. He served as president of the National Feed Ingredients Association and as chair of the Iowa Agricultural Promotion Board. Megown received numerous awards and citations for his work in agriculture and agribusiness. Collection includes correspondence, articles, speeches and talks, newspaper clippings, and printed materials.
Status: Processed.
Finding Aid: Available in Special Collections.
NATIONAL AGRI-MARKETING ASSOCIATION. Records, 1963-1990.
Extent: 13.84 linear feet.
Number: MS-540.
Description: Agricultural marketing organization. The National Agri-Marketing Association (NAMA) evolved from the Chicago Area Agricultural Advertising Association (CAAAA), a group begun in 1956 in a series of informal meetings where agricultural advertising specialists could discuss agricultural marketing problems. As the CAAAA developed, interest and participation expanded outside the Chicago area. To reflect this change, the group was reorganized as the National Agricultural Advertising and Marketing Association in 1963. The name was shortened to National Agri-Marketing Association in 1973. The purposes of the association are to promote the highest standards of agricultural marketing; to provide for the exchange of ideas; to encourage the study and better understanding of agricultural advertising, selling, and marketing; to promote understanding of the economic importance of agriculture; and to encourage careers in agricultural marketing. Membership is open to persons engaged in agricultural marketing for manufacturers, advertising agencies, and the media. NAMA serves as an umbrella organization for 30 regional chapters. Collection includes annual conference and short course arrangements and programs, correspondence, executive committee minutes, national board minutes, and publications. Correspondents include Bill Bowie, Dick Cech, D. R. Collins, Don Dillworth, Penny Graham, Ray Hartley, Bob Kunkel, Mary Paulsen, Joe Pettit, Robert Spitzer, Erny Tannen, George Varnes, and Eldon White.
Status: Unprocessed.
Finding Aid: Unavailable.
NATIONAL AGRI-MARKETING ASSOCIATION. IOWA CHAPTER. Records, 1968-1977.
Extent: 3.36 linear feet.
Number: MS-057.
Description: Iowa Chapter of the National Agri-Marketing Association, organized in 1968 as a regional unit of NAMA. Collection contains bylaws, annual reports, correspondence, financial records, minutes, official publications, and other printed materials.
Status: Processed.
Finding Aid: Online.
NATIONAL AGRI-MARKETING ASSOCIATION. MIDWEST CHAPTER. Records, 1972-1975.
Extent: 2.1 linear feet.
Number: MS-064.
Description: Midwest Chapter of the National Agri-Marketing Association, a regional unit of NAMA. Collection contains scrapbooks assembled for NAMA's "Outstanding Chapter" award.
Status: Processed.
Finding Aid: Online.
NATIONAL AGRI-MARKETING ASSOCIATION. MISSOURI/KANSAS CHAPTER. Records, 1971-1982.
Extent: 2.31 linear feet.
Number: MS-083.
Description: Missouri/Kansas Chapter of the National Agri-Marketing Association, a regional unit of NAMA. Collection includes correspondence, newsletters, printed materials, minutes, and bylaws.
Status: Processed.
Finding Aid: Online.
PARKER, JOHN H. Papers, 1903-1907.
Extent: 1.3 linear feet.
Number: MS-312.
Description: Horse dealer in Unionville, Missouri. Collection contains 445 letters from 1903-1907, most written to Parker, concerning buying, selling, and trading horses in Iowa, Missouri, Indiana, Ohio, and Illinois.
Status: Processed.
Finding Aid: Online.
PIONEER HI-BRED INTERNATIONAL, INC. Records, 1939-1963, 1975-1977.
Extent: 1.93 linear feet.
Number: MS-542.
Description: Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc., the largest seed company in the world, was established as the Hi-Bred Corn Company in Johnston, Iowa, in 1926. The company was founded by a partnership headed by Henry A. Wallace, then editor of Wallaces' Farmer, and later U.S. Secretary of Agriculture and Vice-President under Franklin Roosevelt. When the Hi-Bred Corn Company was started (Pioneer was added to the name in 1935), its sole purpose was to develop and market hybrid seed corn. The seed was originally sold by mail order through advertisements in Wallaces' Farmer. Though hybrid corn out-yielded the open-pollinated seed in use at the time, farmers were slow to adopt hybrids because of their cost. After the drought years of the 1930s, when hybrid corn far outperformed open-pollinated varieties, demand for Pioneer's products increased. Pioneer began to expand its research facilities during the 1930s, adding remote locations for testing seed under different climatic conditions. The company began its international expansion during World War II with the addition of a research operation in Canada. Its name was changed to Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc., in 1971. Today Pioneer has research facilities in thirty countries, and its product line has been diversified to include cotton, sorghum, sunflower, soybean, alfalfa, wheat, canola, and vegetable seeds. Collection includes annual reports, auditor's reports, correspondence, and transcriptions of interviews with longtime Pioneer staff members conducted by Chet Randolph in conjunction with Pioneer's 50th anniversary in 1976. The correspondence is primarily that of R. B. Arvidson of Pioneer's Hy-Line Poultry Farms regarding livestock acquired and bred for the farms. Of special note is a long series of letters (1951-1963) between Arvidson and Henry A. Wallace on poultry breeding and genetics.
Status: Container listed.
Finding Aid: Available in Special Collections.
PIONEER HI-BRED INTERNATIONAL, INC. EASTERN DIVISION. Records, 1937-1976.
Extent: 58.62 linear feet.
Number: MS-541.
Description: Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc., was established as the Hi-Bred Corn Company in Johnston, Iowa, in 1926 by Henry A. Wallace, then editor of Wallaces' Farmer. Pioneer was added to the name in 1935. The company began to expand its research facilities during the 1930s, adding remote locations for the testing of seed under different climatic conditions. In 1936, staff members Raymond Baker and Robert J. Woods secured 150 acres of plots in Flora, Indiana, to produce parent corn. The resulting seed was sent back to Iowa for use in commercial seed production. In 1937, a commercial crop of Pioneer Brand Seed Corn was planted at Flora to be sold in Indiana. A plant was built in Flora, and a new business was established: the Pioneer Hi-Bred Corn Company of Indiana. Robert J. Woods was named president of the new company. Eventually, the company was headquartered in Tipton, Indiana. In 1971, the name of the company was changed to Pioneer Hi-Bred, Inc., and it became a subsidiary of Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc. In 1975 it became known as Pioneer Hi-Bred International's Eastern Division. Collection includes advertisements, contracts, correspondence, news clippings, publications, seed corn salesmen's accounts, and sales ledgers. Correspondents include John Airy, Raymond Baker, William L. Brown, David Garst, Jonathan Garst, Roswell Garst, Gordon McCleary, Owen Newlin, R. Wayne Skidmore, W. L. Thomas, Nelson Urban, James W. Wallace, and Robert J. Woods.
Status: Container listed.
Finding Aid: Online.
RATH PACKING COMPANY. Records, ca. 1900-1987.
Extent: Ca. 300 linear feet.
Number: MS-562.
Description: Meat packing company headquartered in Waterloo, Iowa, founded in 1891. Its founder, E. F. Rath, responded to an advertisement placed by the Waterloo Board of Trade touting the city for its large supply of hogs, proximity to railroads, and excellent facilities. By its 50th anniversary in 1941, it employed over 5,000 workers, and in 1950 it was the fifth largest meat packer in the United States. Large losses led to an experiment in employee ownership in the early 1980s, but the company went bankrupt in 1983. Records include public relations and advertising materials; employment and labor records, including payroll records and a large series of time-motion studies covering a number of years; photographs; films; and blueprints.
Status: Container listed.
Finding Aid: Online.
ROACH, HOWARD L. (1898-1968). Papers, 1952-1954.
Extent: 0.21 linear foot.
Number: MS-056.
Description: Born in Plainfield, Iowa, Howard L. Roach worked for J. Roach Sons, Inc., an agricultural corporation. He was president of the company from 1940 to 1956, then became president of Roach Farms, Inc. (1956-1968). Roach was president of the Iowa Good Roads Association, vice president and director of the Council for Agricultural and Chemurgic Research, and a founder and president of the Soybean Council of America. He also served as president of the Iowa Chapter of the Republican Farm Council (1952-1953) and became national chair of the council in 1953-1954. Collection includes correspondence, newspaper clippings, and printed materials.
Status: Processed.
Finding Aid: Online.
ROSSITER, VINCENT E., SR. (1914-1990). Papers, 1927-1990.
Extent: 38 linear feet.
Number: MS-258.
Description: Banker and agricultural leader. Vincent E. Rossiter, Sr., was born July 21, 1914, in Walthill, Nebraska, the son of Emmett and June (Hitchcock) Rossiter. His early education was in the public schools of Winnebago and Walthill, Nebraska, and he graduated from St. Thomas Military Academy in St. Paul, Minnesota. Rossiter began his career with a brief stint as timekeeper and supervisor for the Works Progress Administration in 1932. He spent a year as a bookkeeper for the First National Bank of Walthill, Nebraska. From 1934 to 1936, he operated an insurance and real estate office in Walthill. He then joined the Bank of Hartington, in Hartington, Nebraska, as a bookkeeper. He worked there in various capacities for the rest of his life, succeeding his father as president in 1951. In 1978, he became chair of the board and chief executive officer, retaining these positions until his death in 1990. Rossiter was involved with many civic activities. He was president of the Hartington Junior Chamber of Commerce, president of the Senior Chamber of Commerce, secretary and director of the Cedar County Agricultural Society, director of the National Catholic Rural Life Conference, Grand Knight of the Hartington Council of Knights of Columbus, president of the Holy Trinity Catholic Church Parish Council, director of the Center for Rural Affairs, director of the Small Farm Energy Project, chair of the Independent Bankers Association Agricultural Committee, president of the National Organization of Raw Materials, and consultant to the National Farmers Organization. Rossiter was also active in the Democratic Party on both state and national levels. Most of the papers in the collection deal with Rossiter's agricultural activities, primarily his involvement with the National Organization for Raw Materials. Other topics include his work for the National Farmers Organization, the Independent Bankers Association, and the Nebraska Democratic Party. The collection includes correspondence, meeting arrangements and minutes, publications, and speeches. Correspondents include Homer Ayres, J. James Exon, Bob Kerrey, Harry E. Rash, Oren Lee Staley, Butch Swaim, and Edward Zorinsky, with substantial correspondence from Arnold E. Paulson, Charles Walters, and Carl H. Wilken.
Status: Processed.
Finding Aid: Online.
SEED COMPANY SIGN COLLECTION, n.d.
Extent: 8.35 linear feet.
Number: MS-199.
Description: Collection consists of seed company signs; the signs were a common sight along rural roads throughout the Corn Belt. Collection includes signs from approximately 110 seed companies.
Status: Processed.
Finding Aid: Online.
SHEPARD, HUGH H. (1876-1970). Papers, 1905-1962.
Extent: 64.26 linear feet.
Number: MS-005.
Description: Lawyer and businessman of Mason City, Iowa. A graduate of the University of Iowa and the University of Iowa Law School, Hugh H. Shepard became an attorney and president of the Shepard Abstract Company. He was the inventor and developer of Grant of Possession, a legal procedure used in connection with farm mortgages. At one time Shepard was president of the Jefferson Highway Association, and he was a leader in bringing highways to northern Iowa. Collection includes loan folders containing application forms and other papers on farm loans negotiated through the Shepard Abstract Company; and correspondence, some relating to the Jefferson Highway Association (1925-1928) and to the effort to pave highways in Iowa and the Midwest.
Status: Processed.
Finding Aid: Available in Special Collections.
STROMBERG POULTRY FARM AND HATCHERY. Records, 1922-1980, undated.
Extent: 0.84 linear feet.
Number: MS-123.
Description: Ernst Sigfred Stromberg (1886-1969) was born in Greenview, Illinois. In 1893 his family moved to Otho, Iowa, and in 1913 Ernst Stromberg married Josephine Anderson. The couple made their home on a farm near Otho until 1925 when they moved to Fort Dodge, Iowa, and established the Stromberg Hatchery. Stromberg pioneered the chick hatchery concept in the United States; at one time the Stromberg Hatchery was the largest in the country, with branches in Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota; and in Mason City, Marshalltown, Boone, Webster City, Manson, Rolfe, and Lakota, Iowa. Stromberg also ran the Purity Milling Company and developed its formulas for poultry feeds. Collection includes advertising, correspondence, feed tests, financial records, legal documents, and ledgers. It also contains a 1959 letter from Stromberg to his sister Bettie explaining how he went into the hatchery business.
Status: Processed.
Finding Aid: Online.
URBAN, NELSON (1905-1986). Papers, 1932-1960.
Extent: 0.21 linear foot.
Number: MS-118.
Description: Pioneer Hi-Bred, International, Inc., executive. Nelson Urban graduated from Antioch College in 1929 and worked at Pioneer from 1930 to 1970, beginning as sales manager. Urban was the first person hired at Pioneer by its founder, Henry A. Wallace, and he ended his career as executive vice president. Collection contains photocopied letters concerning Pioneer from Wallace to Nelson Urban, Fred Lehmann, Raymond Baker, and Jay Newlin, all officers in the company.
Status: Processed.
Finding Aid: Online.