Title: New London Cooperative Records
Inclusive Dates: 1919-1967

Creator:

• New London Cooperative (Wis.)

Call Number: Green Bay Mss 113

Quantity: 1.8 c.f. (1 record center carton and 2 archives boxes)

Repository:

Housed at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Archives and Area Research Center; owned by the Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

UW-Green Bay Cofrin Library / Green Bay Area Research Ctr. (Map)

Abstract:

Records of New London Cooperative and its predecessors which bought and sold agricultural products, equipment, and petroleum products and other supplies. Records are from the New London Farmers' Exchange Company, 1919-1940; New London Cooperative Exchange, 1951-1967; Bi-County Consumers Cooperative Association, 1959-1962; and New London Farmers Cooperative Oil Company, 1956-1964. The collection is fragmentary with the bulk of the materials from the 1930s and 1950 through 1967. The records include a minute book, stock certificate books, annual reports, correspondence, and newspaper advertisements. Financial records form the bulk of the collection.

Language: English

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The predecessor of the New London Cooperative was the New London Farmers' Exchange Company, organized in 1919 as a marketing cooperative for agricultural products such as grain, flour, and potatoes. The New London Cooperative Exchange apparently replaced the Farmers' Exchange in 1941 to market, buy, sell, and store agricultural products. By the 1950's, the merchandise inventory of the Exchange listed seeds and fertilizer; grain and feed; hardware; farm machinery and repair parts; lime; cement; and coal. The Bi-County Consumers Cooperative Association was organized in March 1941 and handles petroleum products. In 1967 the New London Cooperative was formed by the merger of the New London Cooperative Exchange, Bi-County Consumers Cooperative Association, and the New London Farmers Cooperative Oil Company. The New London Cooperative joined the Cenex firm circa 1976.

The New London Cooperative records document the activities of an agriculture and petroleum service and marketing cooperative from its inception in 1919 through a merger in 1967. The collection is fragmentary with substantial portions missing. According to the general manager, Norman Fenske, some records were probably destroyed in a fire in 1973. The collection has been arranged in the following four series to reflect the organization's name changes and a merger: NEW LONDON FARMERS' EXCHANGE COMPANY, NEW LONDON COOPERATIVE EXCHANGE, BI-COUNTY CONSUMERS COOPERATIVE ASSOCIATION, and NEW LONDON FARMERS COOPERATIVE OIL COMPANY.

The records in these series consist of early administrative records, including a minute book (corporation record book) and stock certificate books; annual reports; a small amount of correspondence pertaining to sales and orders; merchandise inventories; and newspaper advertisements. The bulk of the material consists of financial records, primarily from the 1930's and 1950-1967, such as audit reports, cash book, journals, ledgers, check registers, payroll books, and overhead analysis sheets.

Additional materials pertaining to the New London Cooperative are in the State Archives, Series 747, State Department of Agriculture, Marketing Cooperative.

Acquisition Information

Presented by Norman Fenske, New London, Wisconsin, 1977. Accession Number: M77-219

Processing Information

Processed by Mary Jane Uecker (FGH class), July 1980; Debbie Anderson, January 1988.

	Series: New London Farmers' Exchange Company
Box   1 Folder   1	Corporation Record Book, August 1919-November 1928
Box   1 Folder   2	Correspondence, 1931-1934
Box   1 Folder   3	Inventories, 1933-1934
Box   1 Folder   4	Newspaper Advertisements, May 1931-June 1934
Box   1 Folder   5	Annual Report and Assets, 1923
Box   1 Folder   6	Profit and Loss Statement, 1937
Box   1 Folder   7	Cash book, January 1937-December 1938
Box   1 Folder   8	Stock Certificate Book, December 1919-February 1928
Box   2 Folder   1	Stock Certificate Book, February 1928-September 1940
Box   2 Folder   2	Overhead Analysis Sheets, 1931-1933
Box   2 Folder   3-4	Journals, December 1934-1935; 1937
Box   2 Folder   5-7	Cash Journals, December 1933-1937; June 1938
Box   2 Folder   8-10	Check Registers, May-September 1931; December 1933-1935; 1937
Box   2 Folder   11-15	Ledgers, 1933-1938
	Series: New London Cooperative Exchange	⇧
Box   3 Folder   1	Annual Report, June 30, 1954
Box   3 Folder   2	Audit Reports, 1951-1954
Box   3 Folder   3	Inventory by Department, 1967
Box   3 Folder   4	Gas Inventory, February 1957-January 1965
Box   3 Folder   5-6	Payroll Books, January 1952-October 1966
	Series: Bi-County Consumers Cooperative Association	⇧
Box   3 Folder   7-8	Audit Reports, 1959-1965
Box   3 Folder   9	Inventory, 1962
	Series: New London Farmers Cooperative Oil Company	⇧
Box   3 Folder   10	Audit Reports, 1956; 1958; 1960-1964