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From whom to buy lumber? Where to rent space?
Several of the directors behind the startup of the Vegetable Growers Supply Co. were already engaged in directing farmers’ associations. In the 1913, J. P. Wagoner, J. P. Molitor, Frederick Weber, J. P. Smith, Chas Hengesch, Robert F. Dilger, Peter Schumer, Micheal Leider, John Becker, Nicholas Platz, and Paul Nazig were elected the directors of…
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Off to Wisconsin!
The Vegetable Growers Supply Co held a directors meeting on December 16, 1918 at the Odd Fellows Hall, 7001 N. Clark Street, Chicago, but starting late at 9:00 PM after President J. P. Smith called the the group to order. The board appointed two board members to make a trip to Wisconsin to “see the…
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Don’t box me in
The oral tradition conveyed to me by my father was that Vegetable Growers Supply Co. was formed because the wooden box makers (produce was carried in wooden boxes to the market) were raising prices much too high for the greenhouse growers to accept. In response, they decided to form Vegetable Growers Supply Co. to make…
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In the beginning…
On the 13th of November, 1918, Louis L. Emmerson, the Illinois Secretary of State, authorized the creation of the Vegetable Growers Supply Co. Corporation. A week and a day later, on November 21, 1918, the Vegetable Growers Supply Co., held their first shareholder meeting of the original subscribers of the company’s capital stock. That meeting…
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Chicago Greenhouse Growers
In conveying the history of the Chicago Greenhouse Growers, based on the various documents passed on to me by my grandfather, and the oral history of stories from long ago conveyed to me by my father, I hope I will serve a useful purpose, especially for others who wish to find their own family in…
Chicago Greenhouse Growers 