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1. 1.2.55-57 - Meeting Minutes

   Meeting Minutes of Fairhope Industrial Association Executive Council date January 22, 1895. Present: Aug. Dellgren, Rachel Dellgren, Geo. Pollay, Sylvania Smith, J. P. Hunnel and E. B. Gaston. Members present: M. Michaels, E. Smith and C. L. Coleman. Report of Auditing Com. was that they had examined the report of the Secretary and found same correct, also recommending payment of certain bills which they had also audited. Report of com...

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2. 17.2.25-26 - Membership Documents

   Membership Certificate # 14 in the Fairhope Industrial Association issued to Gilbert Anderson on 8/19/1895.

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3. ii.1.16 - Letter

   Letter dated 6/4/1894 to A. Wooster , Oska loosa, Iowa, from Gilbert Anderson, St. Louis, Mo., requesting information about Fairhope Community.

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4. ii.1.17-21 - Letter

   Letter dated 6/15/1894 to Ernest B. Gaston from Gilbert Anderson, St. Louis. He is a young man, carpenter and single taxer. He is requesting that Mr. Gaston give him an outline of how new colony will get started, employment, number of people, etc. He will apply for membership once questions are answered. He requested copies of "Liberty Bell" especially those containing the constitution.. He encloses a 2 page list of people and addresses that ...

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5. ii.1.22-23 - Letter

   This letter dated 6/22/1894 is continuing correspondence from Gilbert Anderson to E.B. Gaston, Secretary of the Fairhope Industrial Association. Gilbert has more questions about the new colony, especially about financing the colony and specifically about the membership fee. He asks if there are any provisions for borrowing for the membership fee. Anderson lives in the Y.M.C.A. in St. Louis, Missouri.

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6. ii.1.24-26 - Letter

   Continuing correspondence dated 6/27/1894 from Gilbert Anderson to E. B. Gaston, Secretary of the Fairhope Industrial Organization, Des Moines, Iowa. Anderson, who lives at the YMCA in St. Louis, Missouri, is enclosing an application for membership in the FIA and and a money order for $20.50 - $20 for four months payment of the membership fee and $.50 for a year's subscription to the Libery Bell newspaper. Anderson says he likes the "general ...

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7. ii.1.27-28 - Letter

   Continuting correspondence dated 7/8/1894 from Gilbert Anderson of St. Louis, Missouri to E. B. Gaston, Secretary of the Fairhope Industrial Association. In this letter, in which Anderson calls Gaston "Dear Brother," he addresses problems Gaston has noted about the money order sent in the previous letter (see ii.1.24-26). He also mentions that he has not received his July, 1894 copy of the Liberty Bell newspaper, for which he bought a subscript...

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8. ii.1.29-31 - Letter

   Correspondence 7/27/1894 from Gilbert Anderson of St. Louis, Missouri to E. B. Gaston, Secretary of the Fairhope Industrial Association in Des Moines, Iowa. Anderson has received his copy of the Liberty Bell newspaper and jokes that he is becoming famous because his name is printed in the newspaper. Anderson is carefully studying his correspondence about Fairhope, and notes changes in the names of FIA officials on the letterhead Gaston is usin...

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9. ii.1.32-33 - Letter

   Continuing correspondence dated 8/6/1894 from Gilbert Anderson of St. Louis, Missouri to E. B. Gaston, Secretary of the Faihrope Industrial Association. Anderson, who applied for membership in the FIA in June, 1894, is responding to Gaston's letter calling a meeting of members for the 10th. Anderson is very busy and cannot travel to the meeting but requests a report and sends his best wishes for a good meeting.

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10. ii.1.34-35 - Letter

    Continuing correspondence dated 8/13/1894 to E. B. Gaston, Secretary of the Fairhope Industrial Association from Gilbert Anderson of St. Louis, Missiour. Anderson, a member of the FIA, is commenting on his opinion about the poor quality of the Liberty Bell newspaper and agrees with Gaston's mention of "publishing a paper of our own."

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11. ii.1.36-37 - Postcard

    This postcard is continuing correspondence dated 8/23/1894 from Gilbert Anderson of St. Louis, Missouri to E. B. Gaston, Secretary of the Fairhope Industrial Association in Des Moines, Iowa. Anderson has received the report of the Location Committee and other Fairhope-related materials. He wishes to wait about ten days before sending back his ballot, on which he, as a member of the FIA, will vote on Fairhope's location. He has a friend who ...

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12. ii.1 38-39 - Letter

    This letter dated 9/3/1894 is continuing correspondence from Gilbert Anderson, a member of the Fairhope Industrial Association to E. B. Gaston, Secretary of the the FIA. Anderson is sending his ballot, voting on the location of Fairhope. He says agrees that the Alabama location, located on the seacoast and well elevated, would be the preferred site. He asks that his year's subscription to the Liberty Bell newspaper be transferred to the new Fa...

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13. ii.1.40-42 - Letter

    Letter to Gilbert Anderson, member of the Fairhope Industrial Association, from F. L. Higgins. This letter was sent to E. B. Gaston, Secretary of the FIA from Anderson. In the letter, Higgins is responding to Anderson's information that he, Anderson, has joined a Single Tax colony which will possibly locate in Arkansas. Higgins is writing about the Altruria Colony, of which he has administrative reponsibilies, which is looking at locating in Ar...

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14. ii.1.43-44 - Postcard

    Postcard dated 9/8/1894 to E. B. Gaston, Secretary of the Fairhope Industrial Association, from Gilbert Anderson, a member of the FIA. Anderson is recruiting members for Fairhope and is requesting additional copies of the Fairhope Courier and other promotional matterials. He says he likes the new newspaper the Courier - "the name, the type and paper, its principles and the manner in which they have been presented. Indeed, there is nothing about ...

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15. iii.10.2-3 - Letter

    Letter written to E. B. Gaston on November 29, 1894 from Gilbert Anderson of St. Louis, Missouri saying that he has opinions on the merits and demerits of the proposed alterations of the constitution of the Fairhope Industrial Association. He had no idea that any dissatisfaction with the former constitution existed and the information was a big surprise to him. He says that "all is for the best, however, and if our members are true at heart, it w...

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16. iii.1.12-13 - Postcard

    Postcard dated 12/15/1894 to E. B. Gaston from Gilbert Anderson of St. Louis, Missouri. Anderson has been asked to give a talk to the Questions Club about Fairhope and wants any additional information Gaston can provide. He wishes Gaston "Happy Christmas to all!"

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17. iii.1.14-19 - Letter

    Letter written to E. B. Gaston on 12/28/1894 from Gilbert Anderson, St. Louis. He was sorry to hear of Mr. Powers departure and Colony people should prosper but retarded by limited finances in the beginning. He asked about rental value. Do you expect to include Mr. Shalkenbach's tract in the colony. He mentions Rev. Higgins from San Francisco. In time he will take a membership for future home. He asks about crops and mentions crushed limeston...

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18. iii.1.20-26 - Letter

    Letter written to E. B. Gaston on 2/19/1895 from Gilbert Anderson, St. Louis. He was pleased to hear that they have started work on the lands of the colony. He felt they were surprised to receive a foot of snow that for south. He will send balance of money on his stock in April or May. He is curious as to how the vote went on the proposed amendment. He mentions Mr. Sanders from Texas. He made a talk about Fairhope to the "Question Club". H...

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19. iii.1.8-11 - Letter

    Letter dated 11/23/1894 to E. B. Gaston from Gilbert Anderson of St. Louis, Missouri. Anderson has returned to St. Louis from the new colonly of Fairhope. He says Mr. Breck has lost a pair of trousers in Mobile Bay, but fortunately had one pair on so he was not embarrassed. Anderson refers to Mr. Brokaw's article about the Fairhope Colony which Anderson indicated was not flattering. He seems to chastise Gaston for Gaston's comments to a ...

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20. PMG_9129 - Letter

    Letter dated August 8, 1953 from Dr. C. A. Gaston, secretary of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation, to Mrs. Gilbert Anderson. Mrs. Anderson has surrendered her husband's old Fairhope Industrial Association membership certificate, and Gaston is returning the membership fee. These online Archives have several pieces of correspondence between Mr. Anderson and E. B. Gaston dated 1894 and 1895 regarding the new Colony of Fairhope. Anderson's me...

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