updated 04/09/2013


Allamakee co. Creamery Directory

Postville Farmers' Co-op Creamery, undated photo from the collection of S. Ferrall
Farmers Co-Operative Creamery, Postville, built 1907

 


1894 Allamakee co. Creameries

Office No. Located at or near Name of Creamery or Cheese Factory Proprietor, Secretary or Manager P.O. Address of Proprietor, Sec'y or Manager Shipping Station Product Manufactured Operated by individual, co-operative
or stock company		 Separator (S), Gathered cream (GC) or both (B)
318 Dorchester New Albin Creamery Co. New Albin Creamery
Co.		 New Albin New Albin Butter Stock GC
319 Lansing New Albin Creamery Co. New Albin Creamery
Co.		 New Albin Lansing Butter Stock GC
320 Lycurgus Lycurgus Creamery G.L. Hubbell, Sec'y Waukon Waukon Butter Stock GC
321 New Albin New Albin Creamery Co. New Albin Creamery
Co.		 Decorah New Albin Butter Stock GC
60 Postville Postville Farmers' Co-op Ellison Orr, Sec'y Postville Postville Butter Co-op S
323 Quandahl Arctic Spring Creamery J.D. Johnson Quandahl Spring Grove, Minn. Butter Ind. GC
324 Village Creek Village Creek New Albin Creamery
Co.		 New Albin Lansing Butter Stock GC
136 Volney Ossian Creamery Co. A.O. Elvidge & Co. Ossian Volney Butter Stock S & GC
325 Waterville Farmers Co-op Creamery
& Commercial Co.		 A. Asleson, Sec'y Waterville Waterville Butter Co-op GC
152 Waukon Ludlow Co-op Creamery Co. A.G. Winter, Sec'y Waukon Waukon Butter Co-op S
39 Waukon Oak Leaf Creamery G.L. Hubbell, Sec'y Waukon Waukon Butter Stock S & GC

~source: Eighth Annual Report of the State Dairy Commissioner to the Governor of the State of Iowa, for the year 1894; F.R. Conaway, state printer, 1895
~extracted by S. Ferrall for Allamakee co. IAGenWeb

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Farmers Waukon Creamery, undated, from the collection of S. Ferral
Farmers Waukon Creamery, undated

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1906 Allamakee co. Creameries

Office Record No. Creamery Name Name of Proprietor, Secretary or Manager P.O Address of Proprietor, Secretary or Manager Name of Buttermaker Type of Creamery
9 Farmers' Mutual Co-op Creamery Co. Ben Schwarzhoff Dorchester E.F. Monke Co-operative
10 Calhoun Cremery Co.  (Lansing) P.E. O'Donnell Church K.V. Ferris Co-operative
11 Postville Farmers Co-op Creamery Co.  F.H. Welzell Postville Jas. A. Gordon Co-operative
12 Farmers Co-op Creamery & Commercial Co. T.S. Buringrud Waterville F.W. Hessel Co-operative
13 Ludlow Co-op Creamery Co. F.A. Sanderman Waukon W.P. Muth Co-operative
14 Arctic Springs Creamery Association (Quandahl) O.C. Flatberg Spring Grove, Minn. M.E. Bakken Co-operative
15 Farmers Waukon Co-op Creamery Co. J.L. White Waukon Jackson Smith Co-operative
16 New Albin Co-op Creamery Co. R.G. May New Albin E. Rice Co-operative

~source: Twentieth Annual Report of State Dairy Commissioner to the Governor of the State of Iowa for the year 1906, by H.R. Wright, Food & Dairy Commissioner, printed 1907
~extracted by S. Ferrall for Allamakee co. IAGenWeb

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Postville Farmers Co-op Creamery

Farmers Co-Operative Creamery, Postville, undated, from the collection of S. Ferral
Farmers Co-Operative Creamery, ca 1930
Postville, Iowa

1894
The Farmers Creamery Co. elected the following officers at their annual meeting:

President - George Steele
Vice President - Henry Weihe
Secretary - Ellison Orr
Treasurer - John Hart
Directors - Dan McNeil and Chas. Bachtell

~Iowa Volksblatt January 4, 1894
~contributed by Reid R. Johnson

1930
That the Postville Farmers Creamery is still going stong is evidenced by the fact that forty-three of the patrons pulled down checks for $100 and over during the month of March.

Patron Amount
   
H.N. Turner $445.13
Caldow Bros. $341.40
Ed Gass $310.94
M.C. Deering & Son $305.14
Ross Koth $260.35
Ed Schlee $227.00
Ernest Groth & Son $197.08
F.L. Williams $190. 60
Art Foels $177.57
Christofferson & Marston $170.56
E.T. Paulson $161.29
J.C. Weihe $160. 14
Fred Kneeskern $158.83
Tom Monroe $158.79
Mrs. C.H. Schroeder $157.19
Will Schwinefus $155.55
Warner Harris $154.48
S.A. Green & Son $147.02
Ervin Dickman $144.60
Albert Foels $148.25
Kamp & Schroeder $141.45
Alvin Meyer $138.94
Fred Everman $138.86
Will Koenig $136.61
C.C. Meyer $130.01
K.J. Kerr $127.67
Art Schroeder $127.38
John Dyke $126.89
Ed McNeil $125.05
Will Everman $122.83
Mrs. B. Brainard estate $122.79
Ben Erickson $120.62
Henry Larson $114.59
Schultz & Schroeder $112.75
W.H. Meyer $111.72
Cevert Meyer $109.42
H.C. Meyer $108.11
L.H. Lenth $104.09
E.H. Brandt $102.37
Frank Lawson $101.22
Ira Smith $100.90
Huebner & Webster $100.65
Lawrence Welzel $100.57

~source: Postville Herald, May 1, 1930
~transcribed by S. Ferrall

~unless otherwise credited, the source of photos on this page are from the private collection of S. Ferrall, "The photos were among my grandfather, Fred Groth's personal papers. He and my grandmother Dorothy bought the old Postville creamery in 1939 and operated a poultry business in the building. His father Ernest Groth is listed as receiving a check. The old building stood until December 2003, when the building burnt to the ground, was the Iowa Turkey Products plant. The Waukon creamery picture was on a photo postcard. There is no date on the card.

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Creamery, Church, Iowa; undated
Creamery, Church, Iowa; undated
source: Allamakee Journal, Lansing, Iowa - contributed by Errin Wilker

 

Calhoun Co-operative creamery, Church, Iowa

At the annual meeting of the Calhoun Co-operative creamery's stockholders, William Thompson was elected to succeed himself for a term of three years, and Ole Orness to succeed Andrew Laughlin. Other members of the board are Harry Lenz, Joe Weipert and O.E. Buntrock. Milton Wilde and Willard Marti were hired as buttermakers, the latter to do the secretarial work. The reports showed a total of $177,367.30 of business transacted during the past year. A total of 533,798 pounds of butter were made. The creamery was organized in 1896 and re-built in 1925. It is located at Church.

~LaCrosse Tribune, February 3, 1938
~contributed by S. Ferrall

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