Montana Farmers Union Records> 1912-1983

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Montana Farmers Union Records> 1912-1983

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Records (1912-1983) of the Montana Farmers Union consist of state convention materials (1943-1974); reports (1965-1975) of county and local union meetings; financial records; subject files; records of associated cooperative enterprises; correspondence (1965-1968) of the Education Department; and scrapbooks.

14 linear feet of shelf space.

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Montana Historical Society Research Center Archives

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Montana Farmers Union

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The Farmers Educational and Cooperative Union, later to become the National Farmers Union, was founded in 1902, in Rains County, Texas, by Isaac Newton ("Newt") Gresham. It spread rapidly around the South during the next few years, but then started to decline. As it declined in the South, however, membership in the Upper Midwest and especially North Dakota began to increase. The first Montana local was formed at Ronan in 1912, with a Polson local established shortly ther...