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Title: Archive of material relating to the the Compress Company of Sherman, later the Sherman Cotton Mills Author: ** Place: Sherman, Texas Publisher: [No publisher] Date: 1879-1910 Description: Comprises: Record book of the Sherman Compress Co.,12½x8, 321 pp., approximately 249 pp. of which written in manuscript with the articles of incorporation, balance sheets, minutes of meetings, inserted stock certificates, notes regarding stock trades, receipts, etc. * 22 engraved stock certificates (issued) of The Compress Company of Sherman * 9 items of correspondence addressed to The Compress Company of Sherman relating to shares of stock * Sherman Cotton Mills stock certificate book, 8½x13½, 98 engraved certificates; 83 unissued and 15 restored cancelled 30 year record of stock transactions relating to a Texas cotton company. Incorporated in 1879 at Sherman (Grayson County) Texas by Thos. Forbes Sr., C.C. Binkley, J. B. Fairchild, C.A. Andrews, and C.C. Jones for the purpose of "purchasing, leasing, and owning suitable Real Estate and personal property, and erecting thereon proper and adequate Warehouses, Buildings, and machinery for the transaction of the business of the Corporation which shall be the receiving, forwarding, storing, weighing, compressing, baling, picking, and manufacturing of Cotton, Wool, Hides, and other produce and Merchandise . . ." Lot Amendments Condition: Covers of record and certificate books detached, contents very good. Item number: 170784