Ellis Agency records, 1901-1918.

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Ellis Agency (Mandan, N.D.). Ellis Agency records, 1901-1918.

Ellis Agency records, 1901-1918.

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Consists of twenty two bound volumes of carbon copies of all correspondence from Charles F. Ellis in his business endeavors from June 1901 to April 1918. Throughout these years, Ellis brokered land sales and sold insurance at Real Estate Insurance and Loan, with partner W. A. Lanterman, in Mandan, North Dakota. Ellis was involved for several months in 1904 with the German-American Land Company, Real Estate Office, in Beach, North Dakota. From March 1909 to about March 1910, he was also an agent for the Missouri Valley Farms Loan Company. By 1915, Ellis was also operating Charles F. Ellis Fire Insurance in Mandan. He went on to run Ellis Agency in Mandan. In a letter in box 2, folder 1, dated March 16, 1906, agents listed in addition to Ellis were: James C. Winjum, Castle Wood, South Dakota; William Winjum, Oldham, South Dakota; Johnston & Herring, South Shore, South Dakota; L. W. Stoechel, Bryant, South Dakota; Schultze & Davis, Davis, South Dakota; Stiles & Son, Harlan, Iowa; Joseph Helebrant, Austin, Minnesota; Hugh A. Calhoun, Galva, Illinois; and Thomas Rochford, Austin, Minnesota.

4 cubic ft.

State Historical Society of North Dakota State Archives