Tri-State Tobacco Growers Association

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Dates:
Active 1920
Active 1931

Biographical notes:

Organized in 1920 and 1921; inc. 1922; ordered into receivership in 1926 which lasted until 1931 when debts settled and final payments made to members; popular name of Tobacco Growers' Cooperative Marketing Association; also known as Tri-State Co-Op and Tobacco Growers' Cooperative Association.

From the description of Records, 1920-1931. (North Carolina Division of Archives & Hist). WorldCat record id: 70956030

The Tri-State Tobacco Growers Association was a cooperative association of tobacco growers in Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina. Officers of the association included M. O. Wilson, of Raleigh, N.C.; L. E. Rogers; E. G. Moss; and Sydney D. Frissell.

Sydney D. Frissell was for a time the association's publicity director. While a graduate student in rural social economics at the University of North Carolina, Frissell conducted a study on cooperative marketing.

From the guide to the Tri-State Tobacco Growers Association Records, ., 1921-1927, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.)

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Subjects:

  • Cooperative marketing of farm produce
  • Marketing cooperatives
  • Receivers
  • Tabacco
  • Tobacco
  • Tobacco
  • Tobacco industry
  • Warehouses

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Places:

  • South Carolina (as recorded)
  • South Carolina (as recorded)
  • United States (as recorded)
  • North Carolina (as recorded)
  • Virginia (as recorded)
  • Virginia (as recorded)
  • North Carolina (as recorded)