Title: Grant and Sons Cheese Factory Records
Inclusive Dates: 1886-1910

Creator:

• Grant and Sons Cheese Factory (Somerset, Wis.)

Call Number: River Falls Mss N

Quantity: 0.6 c.f. (3 volumes in 1 archives box and 2 separate volumes)

Repository:

Housed at the University Archives and Area Research Center, Chalmer Davee Library, University of Wisconsin-River Falls, ; 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-River Falls, Chalmer Davee Library / River Falls Area Research Ctr. (Map)

Abstract:

Records of a cheese factory, including a letterbook, 1889-1892; records of milk deliveries, cheese production, and payments, 1887-1890, 1900-1901, 1910; and a list of notes held by the company, 1886-1891. Some records pertain to a general merchandise store also owned by the firm.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-rf000n

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Edward Grant (La Grandeur) was among the early French-Canadian settlers of Somerset township in St. Croix County, Wisconsin, prior to 1860. In 1884 he and his sons, E. W. Grant and Henry A. Grant, purchased a general store in Somerset, Wisconsin, and in June, 1887 the firm Grant and Sons began operation of the first cheese factory in St. Croix County.

This small collection contains the records of Grant and Sons Cheese Factory primarily during the first years of its existence, 1887-1892, with a few entries for later dates. One letterpress copy book contains outgoing correspondence of the company, 1889-1892. Many of the letters relate to a court case in 1890, in which several dissatisfied farmers supplying milk to the factory protested against prices paid for milk and prices of the finished cheese. Other letters and orders concern prices and supplies of fruits, vegetables, soap, agricultural produce, and agricultural implements--products and commodities used probably by the firm in its general store. Although many of the letters were signed merely “Grant & Sons,” others in the same handwriting bear the signature of H. A. Grant, one of the sons. Three volumes contain various production records for the cheese factory.

Acquisition Information

Presented through Walker Wyman, River Falls, Wisconsin, April 17, 1962.

Box   1 Volume   1	Letterbook, 1889 March 15-1892 March 30
	Records of individual daily milk deliveries and daily cheese production
Volume   2	1887 June-July, September; 1888 June-September; 1889 May-September
Volume   3	[no year] June-September Note: An envelope inside the back cover contains a few loose papers, including summaries for 1889 and 1910.
Box   1 Volume   4	Summaries of milk deliveries, cheese production, and payments to milk suppliers, 1887, 1888
Box   1 Volume   4	Cheese sales, 1889, 1890
Box   1 Volume   4	Individual accounts for milk deliveries, cheese production, and cash payments, 1900-1901
Box   1 Volume   5	List of notes held by the company, 1886-1891