He sold his Kansas farm and moved to Macon, Missouri, in 1903. Early letters mention the agricultural experiment station and its problems. Correspondence from 1895 to 1902 is with the Armour Packing Company and discusses problems in the manufacture of oleomargarine. 1 f. Record of farm hands and their wages. 3 f. Papers of a Glasgow, Missouri, lawyer, the son of Thomas Shackelford, who was proprietor, along with G.H. Bowles of St. Louis, of the Elm Grove Stock and Grain Farm in Maywood, Missouri.
Papers primarily concern the farm.
Includes correspondence with U.S. Department of Agriculture officials and Missouri legislators. These materials include personal correspondence, nursery and agricultural business papers, family correspondence, and photographs. Minutes of annual meetings, lists of officers and members, and brief history of this Morgan County, Missouri, organization. The account book, 1850-1908, was kept by C.M. Thomas, an auctioneer in Wellington and then Warrenaburg, Missouri. His daily entries, spanning almost fifteen years, describe farm life, livestock breeding, social activities, transportation, illness, and daily weather.