The American Society of Equity was organized at Indianapolis, Indiana, February 1903, and the Wisconsin organization was formally launched in January 1906. Dissolution of the state organization came about when its executive committee adopted a resolution on August 15, 1934 assigning all assets and liabilities to a new organization to be formed under the name of Farmers' Educational and Cooperative Equity Union of America, Wisconsin Division.
According to its by-laws, the state organization was primarily interested in spreading the benefits of cooperative marketing. In this connection, it was at various times concerned with the cooperative marketing of wheat, wool, tobacco, potatoes, and livestock; cooperative slaughtering and meat packing; and the production and sale of products by farmers and workmen in factories and stores owned by themselves.
See also Theodore Saloutos, “The Wisconsin Society of Equity,” in
Agricultural History, April 1940.
