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  1. 1.2.69-70 - Meeting Minutes

    Meeting Minutes dated 2/23/1895 of the Executive Council of the Fairhope Industrial Association. Reports on completion of the Tatum and Bowen land deeds, and discussion of a Tatum proposal for a road connecting with a county road. Two applications for membership were considered. Peter Keil's was accepted; George Knowles was deferred for further investigation. J. P. Hunnel no longer wishes to be employed as store-keeper, but would like t...

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    1.2.69-70
  2. 1.6.115-119 - Meeting Minutes

    Meeting Minutes dated 2/6/1896 of the Executive Council of the Fairhope Industrial Association. Results of 2/6/1896 election results and were verified by William Stimpson: S.S. Mann - President A. H. Mershon - Vice President E.B. Gaston - Secretary C.L. Coleman - Treasurer S. Vander Meulen - Supt, Lands and Highways H.C.C.Schakel - Supt, Pulbic Services A.J. Cullen - Supt, Industries G.A. Mershon, Supt. Public Health Wharf Committ...

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  3. 1.6.84-87 - Meeting Minutes

    Meeting MInutes dated 12/30/1895 of the Executive Council of the Fairhope Industrial Association Many agenda items regarding wharf business, e.g. setting costs for leaving items (e.g. bricks and wire) on the Wharf, and including a report from Wharfinger H.C.C. Schakel. The Secretary read a letter from the Secretary of State of Iowa regarding the Association incorporation status and moving the charter to Alabama. Mr. Jno. Ettel was accept...

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    1.6.84-87
  4. 1.6.88-90 - Meeting Minutes

    Meeting Minutes dated 1/6/1896 of the Executive Council of the Fairhope Industrial Association. Officers who handle funds, and the Wharfinger, submitted reports to the Trustees for audits. George Pollay, head of the committee investigating a stairway up the cliff from the beach, recommended the foot of the stairs start where the bath house is located. Lumber left over from the Wharf project can be used. The only materials charged will be...

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    1.6.88-90
  5. ii.10.80 - Letter

    Letter written to E. B. Gaston on June 15, 1894 from George Pollay of Riverside, California. He is not prepared to send in his Application for Membership because it will depend on location selected for the Colony.

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    ii.10.80
  6. ii.12.104 - Letter

    Letter written to E. B. Gaston on June 20, 1894 from Mr. E. Smith of Findlay, Ohio enclosing $5.00 towards his membership. He says he wants to be one of the first to the "Promised Land." He is a baker by trade but will be glad to work at anything. Note: Mr. and Mrs. E. Smith and their two children made the trip in a covered wagon, driving all night on the fourteenth in order to meet the group in Battles Wharf on November 15, 1894).

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  7. ii.12.105-106 - Letter

    Letter written to E. B. Gaston on June 28,1894 from E. Smith of Findlay, Ohio saying that he had received a letter from Gaston saying that he had not made his June membership payment but that he had sent it to Oskaloosa.

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    ii.12.105-106
  8. iii.3.57-60 - Letter

    Letter written to E. B. Gaston on January 29, 1895 from Mrs. Alice Craver of Mineola enclosing a membership application.

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    iii.3.57-58
  9. iii.7.54 - Letter

    Letter dated 1/6/1895 to E. B. Gaston from E. R. Rich in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania requesting information about the Fairhope Industrial Association.

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    iii.7.54
  10. iv.3.20-21 - Letter

    Letter dated 7/6/1897 from C. Gerhard in Detroit, MIchigan sending subscription money for the Fairhope Courier newspaper, plus a request for membership information in the Fairhope Industrial Association.

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    iv.3.20
  11. iv.4.35 - Letter

    Letter dated 4/1/1897 to E. B. Gaston from S. Howard Leech of Chicago, Illinois. Leech and Mr. Brown* plan to open a sawmill in Fairhope and are busy closing out their businesses and organizing to make the trip down. Leech asks Gaston to send two membership applications. He also mentions that "Father Brown"** has not been able to sell his property yet. *Brown is likely Frank L. Brown. **Father Brown is likely Frank Brown's father C. K. Bro...

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    iv.4.35
  12. iv.4.36 - Letter

    Letter dated 4/19/1897 to E. B. Gaston from S. Howard Leech in Chicago, Illinois. Leech is including his application for membership in the Fairhope Industrial Association, and tells Gaston he and Brown (likely Frank L. Brown) are "straining every nerve" to get to Fairhope. Leech mentions the drowning death of Mr. Cross and "the young lady" which he read about in the Courier newspaper.

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    iv.4.36
  13. iv.4.37-38 - Membership Documents

    Membership application to the Fairhope Industrial Association for S. Howard Leech. 4/10/1897

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    iv.4.37-38
  14. v.1.73-74 - Letter

    Letter dated 9/18/1898 to E. B Gaston from William Brown in North Wilmington, Massachusetts. He has filed an application for membership to the Fairhope Industrial Association, and is leaving the references section blank because Gaston knows him. He comments about saw mills, and says in his area of the country, portable steam saw mills are being used now rather than permanently located mills. He suggests the FIA acquire as much timber la...

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    v.1.73-74
  15. v.1.9 - Letter

    Letter dated 7/20/1898 from M. Baker in Cincinnati, Ohio requesting information about the Fairhope Industrial Association.

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    v.i.9
  16. v.3.26 - Letter

    Letter dated 3/11/1899 to E. B. Gaston from H. H. Dow in West Point, Mississippi. Dow is eager to move either to Fairhope or Fitzgerald, Georgia to live in a place with good people. He is waiting for his son-in-law and family to arrive and make their decision. In the meantime, he asks Gaston to send him a copy of the lease agreement.

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    v.3.26
  17. v.6.103 - Letter

    Letter dated 8/21/1898 form E. K. Rich in Nashville, Tennessee requesting constitution and membership information about the Fairhope Industrial Association. He said he had lost track of Gaston until he saw the article in the Coming Nation newspaper. He is interested in becoming a member of a colony.

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    v.6.103

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