Name/Title
Dairy Farm RecordsEntry/Object ID
2022.201.001Scope and Content
Milk delivery account book kept by Eugene M. Woods for the year 1919 to 1920. The ledger opens in October 1919 and lists delivery customers with amount of milk delivered for each day. Customers include Shaw, West, Murphy, Morin, Reitzel, Johnson, Burdick, Stebbins, Farrell, Purtill, Smalley, Sweet, Bannin, Scott, Austin, Jordan, Sievers, Cunningham, Kenyon, Hilliard, Clarke, Higgins, Sylvia, Hill, Thorpe, Spencer, Chappell, Cheseboro, Leonard, Petteplace, Lanphere, Green, Slocum, Palmer, Hoxie, Sheffield, Brayton, Yeager, Norman, Bromley, Crandall, Loudon, Cowan, Steadman, Brown, Taylor, Higginbotham, Peabody, Watrous, Main, Snyder, Teft, Noyes, Crumb, Coope, Freeman, McFarland, Hohn, Carson, Crowley, Holt, DePeori, Bray, Ryon, Kennealy, Fitzgerald, Mulcahey, Nicholas, Sullivan, Bliven, Knight, Babcock, Lewis, Murphy, Foster, Law, gill, Barber, Brightman, Livingston, Robinson, Culver, Stiles, James, Congdon, Dove, McKenzie, Potter, Pugh, Gray, McArthur, Sanders, Bentley, Nye, Berry, Hood, Burke, Williams, Champlin, etc.
Also includes total number of quarts ordered, the price per quart and the total due for each month. From this ledger, it appears the milk business was very successful at this point in time.
Eugene Marshall Woods (1874-1960) ran Birchwood Dairy with his wife, Jerusha Ann "Annie" Brown (1872-1955). Eugene was born in Vermont, the son of Everett/Edward Woods and Emma O. Calkins. Jerusha was the daughter of Arabella and William H. Brown. Eugene and Annie were married in 1906.Collection
McShane Collection