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Title
Citrus Collection
Alternative Title
Citrus Collection
Subject
Chase and Company (Sanford, Fla.)
Citrus--Florida
Citrus fruit industry--Florida
Description
Chase & Company was established by Joshua Chase and his brother Sydney in 1884. The company sold insurance and later invested in storage facilities and fertilizer sales. Chase & Company was known mainly for its agricultural interests and maintained a series of citrus groves throughout Central Florida. The company was based out of Sanford, Florida, and became one of the city's largest employers into the early twentieth century. By 1886, the Chase brothers purchased several citrus groves to expand their business, including Isleworth Grove in Windermere. Isleworth Grove covered a total of 1,300 acres along the Butler Chain of Lakes.
Between 1894 and 1895, Central Florida was hit by several freezes and most of the citrus crop was destroyed. Chase & Company did not grow citrus crops again until 1904 when Joshua came back from an extended stay in California. Between 1894 and 1900, different types of pesticide equipment was created, including equipment driven by steam, machines, and horses.
Randall Chase joined in the family business soon after his brother, Sydney Chase, Jr., did in 1922. Randall became the president of Chase & Company from 1948-1965. The Isleworth property stayed in the Chase family until 1984 when Franklin Chase, the son of Sydney Chase, sold the property to famed golfer Arnold Palmer.
Is Part Of
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/15" target="_blank">Chase Collection</a>, RICHES of Central Florida.
Language
eng
Type
Collection
Coverage
Belair Grove, Lake Mary, Florida
Isleworth Grove, Windermere, Florida
Sanford, Florida
Contributing Project
<a href="http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/" target="_blank">Special and Area Studies Collections</a>, University of Florida
<a href="http://ufdc.ufl.edu/" target="_blank">Digital Collections (UFDC)</a><span>, University of Florida</span>
Curator
Cepero, Laura
Marra, Katherine
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
External Reference
<span>"</span><a href="http://floridacitrushalloffame.com/index.php/inductees/inductee-name/?ref_cID=89&bID=0&dd_asId=600" target="_blank">Sydney Chase Sr. (1860-1941)</a><span>." </span><em>Florida Citrus Hall of Fame</em><span>. Copyright 2012. http://floridacitrushalloffame.com/index.php/inductees/inductee-name/?ref_cID=89&bID=0&dd_asId=600.</span>
<span>Warner, S.C. "</span><a href="http://www.fshs.org/Proceedings/Password%20Protected/1923%20Vol.%2036/198-200%20%28WARNER%29.pdf" target="_blank">Development of Marketing Citrus Fruits in Florida</a><span>." </span><em>Florida State Horticultural Society</em><span> vol. 36 (1923): 198-200.</span>
<span>Hopkins, James T. </span><a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1219230" target="_blank"><em>Fifty Years of Citrus, the Florida Citrus Exchange: 1909-1959</em></a><span>. Gainesville, Florida: University of Florida Press: 1960.</span>
<span>"</span><a href="http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1986-09-30/news/0260060057_1_chase-isleworth-golf-florida-citrus" target="_blank">Franklin Chase, 'Towering Figure in Citrus Industry</a><span>.'" </span><em>The Orlando Sentinel</em><span>, September 30, 1986. http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1986-09-30/news/0260060057_1_chase-isleworth-golf-florida-citrus.</span>
Weaver, Brian. <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/43312643" target="_blank"><em>The Citrus Industry in the Sunshine State</em></a>. Charleston, SC: Arcadia, 1999.
Contributor
<a href="http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/" target="_blank">Special and Area Studies Collections</a><span>, University of Florida</span>
<a href="http://ufdc.ufl.edu/" target="_blank">Digital Collections (UFDC)</a><span>, University of Florida</span>
Has Part
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/91" target="_blank">Belair Grove Collection</a>, Citrus Collection, Chase Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/100" target="_blank">Florida Citrus Exchange Collection</a><span>, Citrus Collection, Chase Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.</span>
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/88" target="_blank">Isleworth Grove Collection</a>, Citrus Collection, Chase Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.
Provenance
<span>Entire </span><a href="http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/pkyonge/chase.htm" target="_blank">Chase Collection</a><span> is comprised of four separate accessions from various donors, including Cecilia Johnson, the granddaughter of Joshua Coffin Chase and the children of Randall Chase.</span>
Rights Holder
<span>The displayed collection is housed at </span><a href="http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/" target="_blank">Special and Area Studies Collections</a><span> at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida. Rights to this item belong to the said institution, and therefore inquiries about the item should be directed there. </span><a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">RICHES of Central Florida</a><span> has obtained permission from Special and Area Studies Collections at the University of Florida to display this item for educational purposes only.</span>
Source Repository
<span>University of Florida, </span><a href="http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/" target="_blank">Special and Area Studies Collections</a>
Document
A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text.
Original Format
6-page typewritten letter on Chase & Company letterhead
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Title
Letter from Joshua Coffin Chase to Sydney Octavius Chase (October 19, 1934)
Alternative Title
Chase Correspondence (October 19, 1934)
Subject
Chase, Sydney Octavius, 1860-1941
Chase, Joshua Coffin, 1858-1948
Southern Railway (U.S.)
Citrus fruit industry--Florida
Description
An original letter of correspondence written by Joshua Coffin Chase to his father and Chase & Company business partner, Sydney Octavius Chase. The letter discusses a meeting Joshua attended in Lakeland about the specifics on the proposed Federal Marketing Agreement on citrus and nationally standardized shipping rates. Chase participated in a meeting where citrus growers identified the production and merchandising issues they faced when selling grapefruit.
Chase & Company was established in 1884. The company sold insurance and later invested in storage facilities and fertilizer sales. Chase & Company was known mainly for its agricultural interests and maintained a series of citrus groves throughout Central Florida. The company was based out of Sanford and became one of the city's largest employers into the early twentieth century.
Creator
Chase, Joshua Coffin
Source
Original letter from Joshua Coffin Chase to Sydney Octavius Chase, October 19, 1934: <a href="http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/pkyonge/chase.htm" target="_blank">Chase Collection</a> (MS 14), box 3, folder 13.49, Special and Area Studies Collections, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida.
Date Created
1934-10-19
Is Referenced By
Folder referenced in Chase Collection finding guide, <a href="http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/pkyonge/chase.htm" target="_blank">http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/pkyonge/chase.htm</a>.
Requires
<a href='http://www.adobe.com/reader.html' target='_blank'>Adobe Acrobat Reader</a>
Format
application/pdf
Extent
9,859 KB
Medium
6-page typewritten letter on Chase & Company letterhead
Language
eng
Type
Text
Coverage
Chase & Company Office, Jacksonville, Florida
Chase & Company Office, Orlando, Florida
Lakeland, Florida
California
Seattle, Washington
Spokane, Washington
Portland, Oregon
Tampa, Florida
Washington, D.C.
Winter Haven, Florida
Largo, Florida
Ocala, Florida
Orlando, Florida
Vero Beach, Florida
DeLand, Florida
Lake Wales, Florida
Frostproof, Florida
Sebastian, Florida
Lake Gem, Florida
Winter Park, Florida
Auburndale, Florida
Titusville, Florida
Spatial Coverage
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28.0333, -81.9500
36.747138, -119.770317
47.607089, -122.332878
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28.021985, -81.732502
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29.187236, -82.139683
28.539291, -81.377907
27.63898, -80.39712
29.028255, -81.303005
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28.617679, -81.370865
28.599896, -81.339026
28.066224, -81.788803
28.612555, -80.807934
Temporal Coverage
1934-10-18/1934-10-19
Accrual Method
Donation
Provenance
Entire <a href="http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/pkyonge/chase.htm" target="_blank">Chase Collection</a> is comprised of four separate accessions from various donors, including Cecilia Johnson, the granddaughter of Joshua Coffin Chase and the children of Randall Chase.
Rights Holder
The displayed collection item is housed at <a href="http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/" target="_blank">Special and Area Studies Collections</a> at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida. Rights to this item belong to the said institution, and therefore inquiries about the item should be directed there. <a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">RICHES of Central Florida</a> has obtained permission from Special and Area Studies Collections at the University of Florida to display this item for educational purposes only.
Contributing Project
<a href="http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/" target="_blank">Special and Area Studies Collections</a>, University of Florida
<a href="http://ufdc.ufl.edu/" target="_blank">Digital Collections (UFDC)</a>, University of Florida
Curator
Marra, Katherine
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/">RICHES MI</a>
Source Repository
University of Florida, <a href="http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/" target="_blank">Special and Area Studies Collections</a>
External Reference
Warner, S.C. "<a href="http://www.fshs.org/Proceedings/Password%20Protected/1923%20Vol.%2036/198-200%20%28WARNER%29.pdf" target="_blank">Development of Marketing Citrus Fruits in Florida</a>." <em>Florida State Horticultural Society</em> vol. 36 (1923): 198-200.
Daniells, W.C. "<a href="http://fshs.org/proceedings-o/1936-vol-49/97-103%20(DANIELLS).pdf" target="_blank">The Plight of Grapefruit</a>." <em>Florida State Horticultural Society</em>, vol. 49 (1936): 97-103.
"<a href="http://floridacitrushalloffame.com/index.php/inductees/inductee-name/?ref_cID=89&bID=0&dd_asId=321" target="_blank">Sydney Chase Sr. (1860-1941)</a>." <em>Florida Citrus Hall of Fame</em>. Copyright 2012. http://floridacitrushalloffame.com/index.php/inductees/inductee-name/?ref_cID=89&bID=0&dd_asId=600.
Hopkins, James T. <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1219230" target="_blank"><em>Fifty Years of Citrus, the Florida Citrus Exchange: 1909-1959</em></a>. Gainesville, Florida: University of Florida Press: 1960.
Transcript
CHASE & CO.
SANFORD, FLORIDA
October 19, 1934
Mr. S. O. Chase
P. O. Box 23
Asheville, North Carolina
Dear Dad:
Attended the meeting in Lakeland yesterday afternoon composed of 96 growers and shippers who united last August in fighting the proposed new Agreement. There were a few other growers of the Lakeland territory present, also representatives of the Atlantic Commission Company, and two new grower-shippers, making a total of 98 now instead of 96.
L. P. Kirkland was elected as chairman of the meeting and stated briefly the reason for the meeting, stressing particularly the point that in his opinion an effort was being made by Washington and urged by interests in California more or less at the request of a certain group in Florida to force the Florida citrus industry into national prorating. Mr. Kirkland pointed out that national prorating was unsuited to Florida, because California enjoyed a freight rate which allowed them to put their fruit into the east at $1.17 a box, whereas Florida could not go west of the Mississippi River due to the very high freight rate. He also pointed out that California would want to prorate their Naval crop against our entire crop of oranges, including Valencias, and in this way allow them a very clear and unobstructed noncompetitive market for their Valencias.
It was later brought out in the meeting that Florida's freight rate to Seattle and Spokane, Washington, and Portland, Oregon and surrounding territory amounted to $1.91 a box, including refrigeration, and that California, if they wanted to, could place their oranges in Tampa. Florida by rail at $1.17 a box.
Mr. Kirkland then asked Judge Holland to review the whole matter of the fight against the Agreement which Washington proposed last August, and the results that had been obtained by the 96 grower-shippers who had fought the matter together, as a unit, and he urged that they all continue to meet the matter in a united effort, as he believed that was the only way to secure recognition in Washington to such an extent that they would listen and give the Florida citrus industry a representative and fair group of grower Control Committee members, which Washington had agreed to do when they met in that city in September, and which Washington has not done, as evidenced by the group of names just received from Washington, and which I gave you as a list in my letter of two days ago.
Judge Holland reviewed the matter, beginning with last June up through his last visit to Washington in September. He emphasized the fact that Washington was very much astounded at the united front and effort made by the 96 growers, and that they had not considered this possible before last August. He pointed out that this united action had secured practically every concession that had been asked for, and that the attitude of the Department of Agriculture was entirely different after August, due to the strength shown by the majority of the shippers in the state, representing a decided majority of the fruit. He also stated that it was his personal opinion that the naming of the Grower Control Committee as sent out from Washington was a last effort to try to bluff the industry into national prorating and ram down the throats of the majority what California would like to see and the old Control Committee clique would like to have. He said he he felt reasonably sure that if united effort was continued as in the past would be able to secure a Grower Control Committee that would be fairly selected and in line with what Washington had agreed to do in selecting the Grower Committee.
Dr. Aurin was asked to say a few words. He brought out the Tampa Tribune and read part of a statement issued by Commander, wherein Commander said he hoped the independent shippers and buyers would consider for once the growers of the state of Florida. Dr. Aurin said that he was an hundred percent in accord with Commander in regard to that part of his statement, and that he sincerely hoped that all of the shippers present and in the state would consider the poor growers of the state and see that they would not get the Grower Control Committee as handed down by Washington, but one that would be fair to the growers of the state; that it was high time that the continued effort of a certain group to coerce growers into the Exchange be stopped, and that the growers be allowed to ship and sell their fruit to those shippers which they themselves might choose. Dr. Aurin said that, in looking over the group of growers appointed to the committee by Washington, that he could not believe that the leopard had changed its spots any more than if someone told him that Hitler was a friend of the Jews.
Howey was called to say a few words, which he did, and a great deal of it amounted to politicings; he tactfully said that he felt that some of the good Democrats present would be making good Republicans by the time the present administration got through trying to run their business for them by groups of people who new nothing about it. He was asked the question as to what he thought the loss would be if Florida was forced into national prorating. Howey very carefully avoided giving his own opinion, but did say what he had heard the loss would be from several different sources, which amounted to anywhere from $250,000 annually to a $1,500,000 annually. He also stated that he had been informed when in Washington by good authorities that some businesses which Washington was trying to run by would-be experts who knew nothing about the businesses or any business were suffering a loss in some instances as high as $7,000,000 a year.
We heard next from Jeff Sligh, who was very brief and said that he did approve of Mr. Howey politicing in such meetings. This was all good natured. Sligh did bring out something in regard to what Florida's loss would be if they participated in national prorating for several years. He said the real loss would amount to about $50,000,000 or the citrus industry in Florida. This brought down some real applause, and even Howey nodded his agreement.
Several other growers and shippers spoke briefly, one or two stressing the difference of freight rates from California and Florida. Judge holland drew up a motion protesting the appointment of the grower Committee
and alternates selected by Washington, which was unanimously approved.
W. J. Howey next moved that the chair appoint a committee to form an organization and incorporate same, including the group present and as many more as they could secure for united action in all such matters .The Judge had already prepared a motion which was substituted for Howey's, and, we believe, a very good one.
A fully detailed report as to the motions and committee appointed, and the whole meeting, will undoubtedly follow from the Clearing House within the next day or two.
The press was present and were told in un mistakable words that the paper would not publish all of what was said at the meeting would never be allowed at a meeting again, and that it would be made known why. It was stated that in the past it has been very noticeable that some of the papers in the state published very damaging and unfair articles pertaining to the growers and shippers meetings in the past by not giving all of the information, and by omitting parts and misconstruing many facts. This was directed, I believe, primarily at the Orlando Sentinel. Their reporter was present, and certainly got red around the ears when he received these instructions. The reporter for the Lakeland paper, which has been so active in the past in getting fair and correct information, was present, and I noticed he remained after the meeting to get some of the details he was unable to catch and record as the meeting progressed. I did not see the SEntinel reporter doing this, and I will be interested to see how the two papers compare.
Affectionately yours,
SCCjr/b
Copy:
Mr. J. C. Chase
FLORIDA CITRUS CONTROL COMMITTEE
GROWER MEMBERS AND ALTERNATES
_________________________________
MEMBERS--
Grower
Geo. B. Aycrigg[?], W. Haven
John S. Taylor, Largo
Harry L. Borland, Ocala
Judson J. McReynolds, Orlando
A. W. Young, Vero Beach
Francis P. Whitehair, DeLand
I. A. Yarnell, Lake Wales
Shipper
Exchge. L. L. Lowry, Tampa, Exchge.
Exchge. C. C. Commander, Tampa, Exchge.
AFG W. H. Mouser, Orlando, Ind.
Exchge. C. A. Stewart, Frostproof, Ind.
Exchge. L. C. Edwards, Tampa, Ind.
Exchge. Harry L. Askew, Lakeland, Ind.
LWCGA-Exchge. influenced
ALTERNATES
Grower
H. E. Cornell, W. Haven
Marvin H. Walker, Tampa
A. F. Pickard, Lakeland
E. W. Vickers, Sebastian
James Tillman, Lake Wales
W. T. Blend, Lake Gem
C. E. Stewart, DeLand
Shipper
Exchge. E. E. Patterson, Tampa, Exchge.
Exchge. Frank G. Clark, Indian
Comm. 50, River City, Exchge.
AFG J. C. Chase, Winter Park, Ind.
LWCGA L. P. Kirkland, Auburndale, Ind.
AFG W. G. Roe, W. Haven, Ind.
Exchge. J. J. Parrish, Titusville, Ind.
Is Format Of
Digital reproduction of original letter from Joshua Coffin Chase to Sydney Octavius Chase, October 19, 1934
Is Part Of
<a href="http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/pkyonge/chase.htm" target="_blank">Chase Collection</a> (MS 14), box 3, folder 13.49, Special and Area Studies Collections, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida.
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/93" target="_blank">Citrus Collection</a>, Chase Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.
Mediator
History Teacher
Civics/Government Teacher
Economics Teacher
Geography Teacher
AFG
Asheville, North Carolina
Askew, Harry L.
Atlantic Commission Company
Auburndale
Aurin
Aycrigg, George B.
Blend, W. T.
Borland, Harry L.
California
Chase and Company
Chase, Joshua Coffin
Chase, Sydney Octavius
citrus
citrus growers' Florida Citrus Exchange
citrus industry
Clark, Frank G.
Clearing House
Commander, C. C.
Cornell, H. E.
Daniells, W. C.
Daniells, W.C.
DeLand
Democrats
Edwards, L. C.
FCE
Federal Marketing Agreement
freight rates
Frostproof
grapefruit
Grower Control Committee
Hitler, Adolf
Holland
Howey
Jews
Kirkland, L. P.
Lake Gem
Lake Wales
Lakeland
Largo
Lowry, L. L.
LWCGA
McReynolds, Judson J.
Mouser, W. H.
Ocala
oranges
orlando
Parrish, J. J.
Patterson, E. E.
Pickard, A. F.
Portland, Oregon
Republican
River City
Roe, W. G.
Sanford
Seattle, Washington
Sebastian
shipping
Sligh, Jeff
Southern Railway
Spokane, Washington
Stewart, C. A.
Tampa
Taylor, John S.
The Orlando Sentinel
The Tampa Tribune
Tillman, James
Titusville
U.S. Department of Agriculture
USDA
Valencias
Vero Beach
Vickers, E. W.
Walker, Marvin H.
Washington, D.C.
Whitehair, Francis P.
Winter Haven
Winter Park
Yarnell, I. A.
Young, A. W.
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Title
Chase Collection
Description
Select images, correspondence, and other records from the Chase Collection (MS 14) at Special and Area Studies Collections at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida. According to the biographical sketch in the collection's finding aid:
"The story of the Chases in Florida began in 1878 when Sydney Octavius Chase (1860-1941), having read about orange groves in Scribner's Magazine, came to Florida from Philadelphia. His brother, Joshua Coffin Chase (1858-1948), joined him in 1884 and together they formed Chase and Company that year. The Chase brothers came to Florida at the right time for Florida citrus and at the right time for them as investment entrepreneurs. Strong family ties in the North provided them with financial backing for their ventures. Joshua left Florida in 1895 to work in the California citrus industry. He returned to Florida in 1904 and rejoined his brother. Another brother, Randall, remained in Philadelphia and augmented his brothers' finances when convenient. Sydney and Joshua were also important civic leaders who took part in community development, most notably in the City of Sanford. Both were elected to the Sanford city commission. They also supported the development of Rollins College, worked with the Florida Historical Society, and were the benefactors of numerous charities.
Chase and Company began as an insurance company and branched out to storage facilities and fertilizer sales. The latter was the beginning of the company's lucrative agricultural supply division which remained in operation throughout the existence of the company. Although citrus was the primary interest, the company also invested in other agricultural pursuits including celery in central Florida, tung oil production in Jefferson County, and winter vegetables and sugar cane in the Lake Okeechobee muck lands. The company was also involved in the peach business in Georgia and North Carolina. The company was incorporated in 1914, with the Chase brothers owning 75 percent of the stock, and reincorporated in 1948. A second generation of Chases began its involvement in the family operations when Sydney O. Chase, Jr. ( b. 1890) became a citrus buyer in 1922. He was later joined by his brother Randall who served as president of Chase and Company from 1948-1965. Outside the Chase Family, Alfred Foster, W. R. Harney, and William "Billy" Leffler figured prominently as company executives and investors. The company dissolved in 1979 when its principal assets were sold to Sunniland for $5.5 million.
The Chases' interest in citrus began when Sydney came to Florida and became associated with General Henry S. Sanford. The Chases would eventually own General Sanford's experimental farm, Belair, and the Chase family home in Sanford was located there. Over the years, the Chases invested in a number of citrus groves and owned others outright. In 1912, they organized the Chase Investment Company as a holding company for their farms. Initially, the company operated the Isleworth, Nocatee, Belair, and Kelly citrus groves as well as celery farms in Sanford. The company was renamed Chase Groves, Inc. in 1951. From time to time, Chase Investment was involved in real estate in Florida and North Carolina. The latter included Fort Caswell, a former military property that was held for a time and then sold. Unquestionably, the jewel in the Chase crown was the Isleworth grove at Windermere. Isleworth's four hundred lake-tempered acres carried the Chases through many difficult times. It proved to be the principal asset at the company's demise when it was sold to golf legend Arnold Palmer in 1984. Chase Groves dissolved that same year, 100 years after the founding of Chase and Company."
Contributor
<a href="http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/" target="_blank">Special and Area Studies Collections</a>, University of Florida
Alternative Title
Chase Collection
Subject
Chase and Company (Sanford, Fla.)
Chase, Sydney Octavius, 1860-1941
Chase, Joshua Coffin, 1858-1948
Citrus fruit industry--Florida
Golf--Florida
Celery industry
Sanford (Fla.)
Windermere (Fla.)
Jacksonville (Fla.)
Orlando (Fla.)
Is Part Of
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu" target="_blank">RICHES of Central Florida</a>
Language
eng
Type
Collection
Coverage
Sanford, Florida
Isleworth Grove, Windermere, Florida
Jacksonville, Florida
Orlando, Florida
Contributing Project
<a href="http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/" target="_blank">Special and Area Studies Collections</a><span>, University of Florida</span>
<a href="http://ufdc.ufl.edu/" target="_blank">Digital Collections (UFDC)</a>, University of Florida
Curator
Marra, Katherine
Cepero, Laura
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
External Reference
"<a href="http://floridacitrushalloffame.com/index.php/inductees/inductee-name/?ref_cID=89&bID=0&dd_asId=600" target="_blank">Sydney Chase Sr. (1860-1941)</a>." <em>Florida Citrus Hall of Fame</em>. Copyright 2012. http://floridacitrushalloffame.com/index.php/inductees/inductee-name/?ref_cID=89&bID=0&dd_asId=600.
Warner, S.C. "<a href="http://www.fshs.org/Proceedings/Password%20Protected/1923%20Vol.%2036/198-200%20%28WARNER%29.pdf" target="_blank">Development of Marketing Citrus Fruits in Florida</a>." <em>Florida State Horticultural Society</em> vol. 36 (1923): 198-200.
Hopkins, James T. <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1219230" target="_blank"><em>Fifty Years of Citrus, the Florida Citrus Exchange: 1909-1959</em></a>. Gainesville, Florida: University of Florida Press: 1960.
"<a href="http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1986-09-30/news/0260060057_1_chase-isleworth-golf-florida-citrus" target="_blank">Franklin Chase, 'Towering Figure in Citrus Industry</a>.'" <em>The Orlando Sentinel</em>, September 30, 1986. http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1986-09-30/news/0260060057_1_chase-isleworth-golf-florida-citrus.
Provenance
Entire <a href="http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/pkyonge/chase.htm" target="_blank">Chase Collection</a> is comprised of four separate accessions from various donors, including Cecilia Johnson, the granddaughter of Joshua Coffin Chase and the children of Randall Chase.
Rights Holder
The displayed collection is housed at <a href="http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/" target="_blank">Special and Area Studies Collections</a> at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida. Rights to this item belong to the said institution, and therefore inquiries about the item should be directed there. <a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">RICHES of Central Florida</a> has obtained permission from Special and Area Studies Collections at the University of Florida to display this item for educational purposes only.
Source Repository
University of Florida, <a href="http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/" target="_blank">Special and Area Studies Collections</a>
Has Part
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/90" target="_blank">Celery Collection</a>, Chase Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/93" target="_blank">Citrus Collection</a>, Chase Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/91" target="_blank">Belair Grove Collection</a>, Citrus Collection, Chase Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/100" target="_blank">Florida Citrus Exchange Collection</a>, Citrus Collection, Chase Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/88" target="_blank">Isleworth Grove Collection</a>, Citrus Collection, Chase Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/86" target="_blank">Sanford Collection</a>, Chase Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/94" target="_blank">Holy Cross Episcopal Church Collection</a>, Sanford Collection, Chase Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/87" target="_blank">Sanford Country Club and Golf Course Collection</a>, Sanford Collection, Chase Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.
Document
A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text.
Original Format
3 page typewritten letter on Chase & Company letterhead
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
Letter from Randall Chase to Sydney Chase, Joshua Chase, Sydney Chase, Jr., and William A. Leffler (November 9, 1935)
Alternative Title
Chase Correspondence (November 9, 1935)
Subject
Chase, Sydney Octavius, 1860-1941
Chase, Joshua Coffin, 1858-1948
Citrus--Florida
Florida Citrus Commission
Oranges--Florida
Holland, Spessard L. (Spessard Lindsey), 1892-1971
Lakeland (Fla.)
Celery
Description
An original letter of correspondence between Randall Chase and a group of business partners from Chase & Company. A portion of the letter discusses the issue surrounding Florida citrus growers and coloring adding. The color-added process involved spraying oranges with edible food coloring to make the citrus products more appealing to consumers. Similar coloring was used in butter, ice cream, and candy. In 1936, L.P. Kirkland, mentioned in the letter, wrote an article for the Florida State Horticultural Society entitled, "The 'Color Added' Situation." According to the letter and the report Kirkland wrote, he and other Florida citrus growers supported coloring their oranges since consumers usually associated oranges with the color added stamp with a higher quality product. Other topics discussed in the letter include information collected during a citrus meeting in Lakeland regarding the Federal Marketing Agreement, and the disagreement between Florida citrus growers and Chase & Company Sales Manager, W.H. Mouser, on increasing the unit of sale of citrus products in New York City.
Chase & Company was established by Joshua Chase and his brother Sydney in 1884. The company sold insurance and later invested in storage facilities and fertilizer sales. Chase & Company was known mainly for its agricultural interests and maintained a series of citrus groves throughout Central Florida. The company was based out of Sanford and became one of the city's largest employers into the early twentieth century. Randall Chase joined in the family business soon after his brother, Sydney Chase, Jr., did in 1922. Randall became the president of Chase & Company from 1948-1965.
Creator
Chase, Randall
Source
Original letter from Randall Chase to Sydney Chase, Joshua Chase, Sydney Chase, Jr., and William A. Leffler, November 9, 1935: Chase Collection (MS 14), box 3, folder 13.48, <a href="http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/" target="_blank">Special and Area Studies Collections</a>, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida.
Date Created
1935-11-09
Is Referenced By
Folder referenced in Chase Collection finding guide, <a title="A Guide to the Chase Collection" href="http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/pkyonge/chase.htm" target="_blank">http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/pkyonge/chase.htm</a>.
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Format
application/pdf
Extent
832 KB
Medium
3 page typewritten letter on Chase & Company letterhead
Language
eng
Type
Text
Coverage
Sanford, Florida
Lakeland, Florida
Fort Myers, Florida
California
New York
Washington, D.C.
Spatial Coverage
28.811729, -81.268138
28.041037, -81.951351
26.639306, -81.872995
37.166890, -119.907622
40.706518, -74.018433
38.906421, -77.041012
Temporal Coverage
1935-11-08/1935-11-09
Accrual Method
Donation
Provenance
Entire <a href="http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/pkyonge/chase.htm" target="_blank">Chase Collection</a> is comprised of four separate accessions from various donors, including Cecilia Johnson, the granddaughter of Joshua Coffin Chase and the children of Randall Chase.
Rights Holder
The displayed collection item is housed at <a href="http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/" target="_blank">Special and Area Studies Collections</a> at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida. Rights to this item belong to the said institution, and therefore inquiries about the item should be directed there. <a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">RICHES of Central Florida</a> has obtained permission from Special and Area Studies Collections at the University of Florida to display this item for educational purposes only.
Contributing Project
<a href="http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/" target="_blank">Special and Area Studies Collections</a>, University of Florida
<a href="http://ufdc.ufl.edu/" target="_blank">Digital Collections (UFDC)</a>, University of Florida
Curator
Marra, Katherine
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
Source Repository
<a href="http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/" target="_blank">University of Florida, Special and Area Studies Collections</a>
External Reference
Kirkland, L.P. "The 'Color Added' Situation." <em>Florida State Horticultural Society</em>, vol 49 (1936): 103-106.
Mouser, W.H. "Florida Citrus Industry: Increased Consumption Necessary to Move Larger Yields---Jobbers' Volume of Business Will Increase." <em>The Western Fruit Jobber</em>, vol. 2 (May 1915): 36-37.
"Sydney Chase Sr. (1860-1941)." <em>Florida Citrus Hall of Fame</em>. Copyright 2012. http://floridacitrushalloffame.com/index.php/inductees/inductee-name/?ref_cID=89&bID=0&dd_asId=600.
Hopkins, James T. <em>Fifty Years of Citrus, the Florida Citrus Exchange: 1909-1959</em>. Gainesville, Florida: University of Florida Press: 1960.
Warner, S.C. "Development of Marketing Citrus Fruits in Florida." <em>Florida State Horticultural Society</em> vol. 36 (1923): 198-200.
External Reference Title
"<a title="Florida State Horticultural Society" href="http://www.fshs.org/Proceedings/Password%20Protected/1936%20Vol.%2049/103-106%20(KIRKLAND).pdf" target="_blank">The 'Color Added' Situation</a>"
"<a title="Western fruit jobber" href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/11080863" target="_blank">Florida Citrus Industry</a>"
"<a href="http://floridacitrushalloffame.com/index.php/inductees/inductee-name/?ref_cID=89&bID=0&dd_asId=600" target="_blank">Sydney Chase Sr. (1860-1941)</a>"
<a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1219230" target="_blank"><em>Fifty Years of Citrus</em></a>
"<a href="http://www.fshs.org/Proceedings/Password%20Protected/1923%20V%20ol.%2036/198-200%20%28WARNER%29.pdf" target="_blank">Development of Marketing Citrus Fruits in Florida</a>"
Transcript
CHASE & CO
SANFORD, FLORIDA
November 9, 1955.
Mr. S. 0. Chase Mr. J. C. Chase
Mr. S. 0. Chase, Jr.
Mr. W. A. Leffler.
Gentlemen:
Last night W. C. Hutchison and I attended a citrus meeting in Lakeland. H. C. Case of Fort Myers presided at the meeting. The purpose was the consideration of recommendations by a committee on the Federal Marketing Agreement. Askew, Chairman of the Committee, mane the report that the committee recommended that we drop any further consideration of a Federal Marketing Agreement, and immediately take up the question with the Florida Citrus Commission, with a view of arranging to pro rate citrus shipments. There was considerable discussion of a sort of desultory nature. Everyone seemed to agree that a Federal Marketing Agreement was out of the question, but just how to approach the matter of control here seemed a little
difficult. A motion was finally made by Andrew Spada to the
effect that the Associated Growers favor pro-rating, and are willing to pro-rate amongst themselves, and a committee be appointed to invite the Florida Citrus exchange, American Fruit Growers, Gentile, and others to join in such an arrangement. The legal question should be watched carefully. It
will have to be in some organization under the Capper Volstead Act, which provides for grower control, otherwise we would be in trouble under the Sherman Anti-Trust Law. Judge Holland pointed out that phase of the situation, and stated that the American Fruit Growers had been indicted in California with some others account of a gentleman's agreement to reduce shipments of melons. No mention of price was made in connection with the melon movement, but Holland said that time and time again the courts had ruled that where shipments of supplies were restricted which affected prices that it was a violation of the anti-trust law. This is something that will have to be watched carefully in the celery situation in event we do not have a Federal Marketing Agreement. There should be some grower controlled organization that would provide the medium for the allotment or regula¬tion of shipments.
It might be that the AAA has something to do with prosecuting shippers who are working under some gentlemen's agreement, rather than surrendering all their rights and working under the AAA. This would be all the more reason why we
should watch carefully in the celery deal, in view of the fact that we have turned down the AAA machinery, if we substitute something ourselves.
CHASE & CO.
SANFORD, FLORIDA
Kirkland reported that he was going to Washington to confer with Doctor Campbell and Secretary Wallace on the matter of color-added. The meeting passed a resolution authorizing Kirkland to make such assurances to the Federal Government as in his judgments were necessary in order that the industry may
continue to use color-added. Kirkland explained the rather
strict color shades that were being required by the Commission. Each inspector is furnished with a metal plaque with colors, to which the fruit must conform. The idea was expressed that if Florida had to eliminate color-added it would reduce the average price of Florida oranges in the markets from 50 to 75 cents per box.
Mouser next took up the auction question. He explained at some length, in detail, in his usual manner how Mr. Schwalb, of the Di Giorgio auction, just happened to be in the state, and he called a meeting to consider:
(1) Requesting all New York receivers to pro-rate supplies. (2) To have Florida offerings sole in only two rooms.
(3) For the Florida shippers to request the unit of sale in New York City to be increases to 40, from the present unit of 20.
I told him 1 was heartily in accord with the first two propo-sitions, but the third, of increasing the unit of sale, should be omitted. Mouser was very insistent that the resolutions not be changed, and it rather looked as if he had been asked, or requested to present them in such a form. The only other shipper present who opposed the increased unit was Andrew Spada. He made some very pertinent statements, and asked whether -drown & Seccomb had been consulted. Several remarks were made, mostly by Mouser, which indicated that Schwalb had made some uncomplimentary re¬marks about Brown & Seccomb. It was even stated that drown & Seccomb had not lived up to their agreement, and that most ,of the buyers wanted the 40 unit plan, but that a few, 3 or 4%, of the buying power wanted the 20 unit and this 3 or 4% depressed the market, really should not be in business at all, and that by increasing the unit of sale the prices would be raised at least
10%, maybe more. I told Mr. Mouser that I could not follow
the reasoning: of his statements, that all commodities were being sole in smaller units, that it was the general trend of the times, and 1 could not understand how it would increase prices for the citrus industry to adopt the opposite policy. When a vote was taken I requested that I be recorded as not voting. Waverly did the same thing. I am not sure whether Spada did the same thing or not, but there were no opposing votes. Mouser was smooth
CHASE & CO.
SANFORD. FLORIDA
enough to include the two desirable features with the one to increase the unit of sale, and would not handle them separately.
I asked that we go on record, as favoring selling first, or before California, during the season when we are heaviest. Mouser replied that that would be to the disadvantage of Florida, as it would split the buying power, and it was much best to let California sell first when they had to compete with deciduous fruits, and after the California sale Florida would receive the full strength of the market. That reasoning also seemed a little unusual.
Yours very truly,
RC
(?) of Florida
Selling in 4 rooms as (?) for 10 hrs not (?) the (?) leave
(?) in different room or (?) Room 97.
Is Format Of
Digital reproduction of original letter from Randall Chase to Sydney Chase, Joshua Chase, Sydney Chase, Jr., and William A. Leffler, November 9, 1935.
Is Part Of
Chase Collection (MS 14), box 3, folder 13.48, <a href="http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/" target="_blank">Special and Area Studies Collections</a>, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida.
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/15" target="_blank">Chase Collection</a>, RICHES of Central Florida.
Audience Education Level
SS.K.A.1.2; SS.1.A.1.1; SS.1.A.2.2; SS.1.A.2.4; SS.1.E.1.4; SS.2.A.1.1; SS.3.A.1.1; SS.4.A.1.1 ; SS.4.A.7.2; SS.4.E.1.1; SS.4.E.1.2; SS.5.A.1.1; SS.6.W.1.3; SS.7.E.2.3; SS.7.E.2.4; SS.8.A.1.5; SS.8.E.2.1; SS.8.E.2.2; SS.8.E.2.3; SS.912.A.1.1; SS.912.A.1.6 ; SS.912.A.5.11; SS.912.A.5.12; SS.912.E.1.5; SS.912.E.2.12; SS.912.E.2.3; SS.912.E.2.4; SS.912.E.2.6; SS.912.E.1.10; SS.912.W.1.3; SS.912.W.7.4
Mediator
History Teacher
Economics Teacher
AAA
American Fruit Growers
Askew
Brown
Brown & Seccomb
Campbell
Capper-Volstead Act
chairman
Chase and Co.
Chase, H. C.
Chase, Randall
Chase, Sydney Octavius, Jr.
Di Giorgio
Dr. Campbell
Federal Marketing Agreement
Florida Citrus Commission
Gentile
Gentile Bros.
Gentile Brothers
Hutchinson, W. C.
Leffler, William A.
Mouser, W. H.
Schwalb
Seccomb
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
Spada, Andrew
Wallace
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Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
Florida Citrus Exchange Collection
Alternative Title
FEC Collection
Subject
Florida Citrus Exchange
Citrus fruit industry--Florida
Chase and Company (Sanford, Fla.)
Description
Chase & Company was established by Joshua Chase and his brother Sydney in 1884. The company sold insurance and later invested in storage facilities and fertilizer sales. Chase & Company was known mainly for its agricultural interests and maintained a series of citrus groves throughout Central Florida. The company was based out of Sanford, Florida, and became one of the city's largest employers into the early twentieth century. By 1886, the Chase brothers purchased several citrus groves to expand their business, including Isleworth Grove in Windermere. Isleworth Grove covered a total of 1,300 acres along the Butler Chain of Lakes.
Between 1894 and 1895, Central Florida was hit by several freezes and most of the citrus crop was destroyed. Chase & Company did not grow citrus crops again until 1904 when Joshua came back from an extended stay in California. Between 1894 and 1900, different types of pesticide equipment was created, including equipment driven by steam, machines, and horses.
Randall Chase joined in the family business soon after his brother, Sydney Chase, Jr., did in 1922. Randall became the president of Chase & Company from 1948-1965. The Isleworth property stayed in the Chase family until 1984 when Franklin Chase, the son of Sydney Chase, sold the property to famed golfer Arnold Palmer.
Is Part Of
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/23" target="_blank">Chase Collection</a>, RICHES of Central Florida.
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/93" target="_blank">Citrus Collection</a>, Chase Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.
Language
eng
Type
Collection
Provenance
Entire <a href="http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/pkyonge/chase.htm" target="_blank">Chase Collection</a> is comprised of four separate accessions from various donors, including Cecilia Johnson, the granddaughter of Joshua Coffin Chase and the children of Randall Chase.
Rights Holder
The displayed collection items are housed at <a href="http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/" target="_blank">Special and Area Studies Collections</a> at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida. Rights to these items belong to the said institution, and therefore inquiries about these items should be directed there. <a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">RICHES of Central Florida</a> has obtained permission from Special and Area Studies Collections at the University of Florida to display this item for educational purposes only.
Contributing Project
<a href="http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/" target="_blank">Special and Area Studies Collections</a>, University of Florida
<a href="http://ufdc.ufl.edu/" target="_blank">Digital Collections (UFDC)</a>, University of Florida
Curator
Cepero, Laura
Marra, Katherine
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
Source Repository
University of Florida, <a href="http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/" target="_blank">Special and Area Studies Collections</a>
External Reference
"<a href="http://www.sealdsweet.com/welcome/our-history.php" target="_blank">The History of Seald-Sweet</a>." Seald Sweet International. http://www.sealdsweet.com/welcome/our-history.php.
<span>"</span><a href="http://floridacitrushalloffame.com/index.php/inductees/inductee-name/?ref_cID=89&bID=0&dd_asId=600" target="_blank">Sydney Chase Sr. (1860-1941)</a><span>." </span><em>Florida Citrus Hall of Fame</em><span>. Copyright 2012. http://floridacitrushalloffame.com/index.php/inductees/inductee-name/?ref_cID=89&bID=0&dd_asId=600.</span>
<span>Warner, S.C. "</span><a href="http://www.fshs.org/Proceedings/Password%20Protected/1923%20Vol.%2036/198-200%20%28WARNER%29.pdf" target="_blank">Development of Marketing Citrus Fruits in Florida</a><span>." </span><em>Florida State Horticultural Society</em><span> vol. 36 (1923): 198-200.</span>
<span>Hopkins, James T. </span><a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1219230" target="_blank"><em>Fifty Years of Citrus, the Florida Citrus Exchange: 1909-1959</em></a><span>. Gainesville, Florida: University of Florida Press: 1960.</span>
<span>"</span><a href="http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1986-09-30/news/0260060057_1_chase-isleworth-golf-florida-citrus" target="_blank">Franklin Chase, 'Towering Figure in Citrus Industry</a><span>.'" </span><em>The Orlando Sentinel</em><span>, September 30, 1986. http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1986-09-30/news/0260060057_1_chase-isleworth-golf-florida-citrus.</span>
<span>Weaver, Brian. </span><a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/43312643" target="_blank"><em>The Citrus Industry in the Sunshine State</em></a><span>. Charleston, SC: Arcadia, 1999.</span>
<span>"<a href="http://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00086639/00046" target="_blank">Mayo Dade Offers Helpful Aid on Fruit Picking</a>." </span><em>Florida Clearing House News</em><span>, August 25, 1930.</span>
Contributor
<a href="http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/" target="_blank">Special and Area Studies Collections</a><span>, University of Florida</span>
<a href="http://ufdc.ufl.edu/" target="_blank">Digital Collections (UFDC)</a><span>, University of Florida</span>
Coverage
Arcadia, Florida
Babson Park, Florida
Davenport, Florida
Fort Myers, Florida
Frostproof, Florida
Jacksonville, Florida
Lakeland, Florida
Orlando, Florida
Penney Farms, Florida
Pierce, Florida
Sanford, Florida
Tampa, Florida
Wauchula, Florida
Winter Haven, Florida
Document
A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text.
Original Format
1 page typewritten letter on Chase & Company letterhead with enclosed 2 page typewritten letter
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
Letter from Sydney Chase to Joshua Chase (August 26, 1927)
Alternative Title
Chase Correspondence (August 26, 1927)
Subject
Chase, Sydney Octavius, 1860-1941
Chase, Joshua Coffin, 1858-1948
Citrus fruit industry--Florida
Florida Citrus Exchange
Clearing houses
Sanford (Fla.)
Description
An original letter of correspondence between brothers and business partners Sydney Octavius Chase and Joshua Coffin Chase. Topics discussed in the letter include the proposed creation of a Clearing House organization led by Chase & Company, and the brothers' reaction to Archie Pratt's, chairman of the Florida Citrus Exchange, comments on the matter. Sydney also enclosed a copy a letter from Joshua address to Pratt on August 21, 1927.
Chase & Company was established by the brothers in 1884. The company sold insurance and later invested in storage facilities and fertilizer sales. Chase & Company was known mainly for its agricultural interests and maintained a series of citrus groves throughout Central Florida. The company was based out of Sanford and became one of the city's largest employers into the early twentieth century. The Florida Citrus Exchange was founded by a group of growers on June 21, 1909 to help improve production of citrus in the state. Members shared facilities and helped establish operation and shipping standards. Both Sydney and Joshua Chase were hesitant to join the Exchange because they did not want to jeopardize the business they had successfully managed. Chase & Company eventually became a part of the Exchange, but backed out three years later.
Creator
Chase, Sydney Octavius
Source
Original letter from Sydney Octavius Chase to Joshua Coffin Chase, August 26, 1927: Chase Collection (MS 14), box 3, folder 13.46, <a href="http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/" target="_blank">Special and Area Studies Collections</a>, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida.
Date Created
1927-08-26
Is Referenced By
Folder referenced in Chase Collection finding guide, <a title="A Guide to the Chase Collection" href="http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/pkyonge/chase.htm" target="_blank">http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/pkyonge/chase.htm</a>.
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Format
application/pdf
Extent
5,940 KB
Medium
1 page typewritten letter on Chase & Company letterhead
2 page typewritten letter
Language
eng
Type
Text
Coverage
Sanford, Florida
Camden, Maine
Orlando, Florida
Spatial Coverage
28.811729, -81.268138
44.209526, -69.064922
28.538084, -81.378593
Temporal Coverage
1927-07-19/1927-08-27
Accrual Method
Donation
Provenance
Entire <a href="http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/pkyonge/chase.htm" target="_blank">Chase Collection</a> is comprised of four separate accessions from various donors, including Cecilia Johnson, the granddaughter of Joshua Coffin Chase and the children of Randall Chase.
Rights Holder
The displayed collection item is housed at <a href="http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/" target="_blank">Special and Area Studies Collections</a> at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida. Rights to this item belong to the said institution, and therefore inquiries about the item should be directed there. <a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">RICHES of Central Florida</a> has obtained permission from Special and Area Studies Collections at the University of Florida to display this item for educational purposes only.
Contributing Project
<a href="http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/" target="_blank">Special and Area Studies Collections</a>, University of Florida
<a href="http://ufdc.ufl.edu/" target="_blank">Digital Collections (UFDC)</a>, University of Florida
Curator
Marra, Katherine
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
Source Repository
<a href="http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/" target="_blank">University of Florida, Special and Area Studies Collections</a>
External Reference
Hopkins, James T. <em>Fifty Years of Citrus, the Florida Citrus Exchange: 1909-1959</em>. Gainesville, Florida: University of Florida Press: 1960.
"Sydney Chase Sr. (1860-1941)." <em>Florida Citrus Hall of Fame</em>. Copyright 2012. http://floridacitrushalloffame.com/index.php/inductees/inductee-name/?ref_cID=89&bID=0&dd_asId=600.
"Our Heritage: The History of Seald-Sweet." Seald Sweet International. http://www.sealdsweet.com/welcome/our-history.php.
Warner, S.C. "Development of Marketing Citrus Fruits in Florida." <em>Florida State Horticultural Society</em> vol. 36 (1923): 198-200.
External Reference Title
<a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1219230" target="_blank"><em>Fifty Years of Citrus</em></a>
"<a href="http://floridacitrushalloffame.com/index.php/inductees/inductee-name/?ref_cID=89&bID=0&dd_asId=600" target="_blank">Sydney Chase Sr. (1860-1941)</a>"
"<a href="http://www.sealdsweet.com/welcome/our-history.php" target="_blank">Our Heritage: The History of Seald-Sweet</a>"
"<a href="http://www.fshs.org/Proceedings/Password%20Protected/1923%20V%20ol.%2036/198-200%20%28WARNER%29.pdf" target="_blank">Development of Marketing Citrus Fruits in Florida</a>"
Transcript
CHASE & COMPANY
GROWERS' MARKETING AGENTS
PACKERS AND SHIPPERS
FLORIDA FRUITS AND VEGETABLES
SANFORD, FLORIDA
August 26, 1927.
Mr. J. C. Chase,
Camden, Maine.
Dear Josh:
On arrival at the office this morning I found
yours of the 21st, addressed to Mr. Pratt. I have had
a copy made of same, am forwarding the pen and ink original to Mr. Pratt, and am enclosing you a copy of same.
If Mr. Pratt had been advised, or if he had taken the trouble to ascertain the nature of the meeting which was held in Orlando on July 19, and learned of Mr. Tenney's recommendations with regard to the preparation of form of contracts, by-laws, etc., for the proposed Clearing House organization we are endeavoring to create, he certainly would not have written Newton as he did.
Mr. Tenney stressed the necessity of having it a growers organization, and to follow closely the par¬ticular form of organization which he recommended. There were three plans under discussion, and the one we are trying to follow is the one he indorsed, and expressed a willingness to furnish us additional help in the pre¬paration of contracts for the growers to sign, and other forms pertaining to the organization which we might ask for.
The idea of following the government recommen-dations was to avoid having any of the growers charge that the larger sales organizations had formulated the plans for their own special benefit without regard to the in
terests of the growers. Personally I do not think that
it is merely a gesture on the part of those interested in the creation of the clearing house organization to endeavor to have it a growers foundation.
After reading over your letter to Pratt I thought it just as well to let it slide.
Yours very truly,
SOC:HMR.
DISTRIBUTORS
Sunniland
FRUITS AND VEGETABLES
Dear Archie:
Note copy of your long letter of the 16th to Newton and almost as long reason therefore of the 17th, neither necessary if Newton was then in Orlando. He is certainly just as much entitled to his vacation as you were, and as you have had yours it is hardly fair to begrudge his.
Altho you were requested by me by wire and letter to secure some first hand information concerning the forms, agreements, etc. of organizations on the coast similar to the proposed. Clearing House I am not advised that you did a thing of a helpful nature.
Somehow the tone of both of your letters to Newton
does not meet with my approval. If you have anything
on your chest work it off in a personal conference, and'
not over the radio. In my opinion your letters will do
more harm than good. Neither will tend toward team work or create a spirit of cooperation absolutely necessary if all operators are to work together under any plan.
Tenney agreed to furnish, if requested, all forms of agreements, plans, contracts, etc. He understood what was required and should have given the matter attention. Newton should not be held responsible for the delay. You should post yourself before you jump on anyone. We discussed the question of forms and. I advised having same drawn up by Tenney's department to be adjusted by the Committee to conditions confronting the Florida citrus industry. We thought this essential to avoid adverse criticisms from Commander and others if contracts made up by committee. As far as I know no word came back from Washington such as you picked up from Kitchen.
In my last conversation with Tenney, after the Orlando meeting, he made the statement that with modifications he thought the Eastern Shore Potato forms and agreements could be made to fit for Florida.
Did you see Newton before he left? Are you in
touch with Mouser, and have you personally gone over Newton's files in Mouser's possession? If not you had better do so and post yourself. Try to dismiss from your mind the idea
that you are the only cooperator, and if other's do not play ball your way they are wrong, and you are always right.
As one of your well wishers let me suggest that from now on you abbreviate all of your letters, circulars, etc. Boil down what you have to say to the smallest space; condence to one sheet what you put on three.
All questions of policy concerning Chase & Company discuss before writing with Mr. S. 0. Chase, W. J. Lee, A. R. Bogue, W. A. Leffler, or Randall Chase, in order named if matters require quick handling.
Sincerely yours,
J. C. CHASE.
Has Format
Copy of original letter from Joshua Coffin Chas to Archie M. Pratt, August 21, 1927: Chase Collection (MS 14), box 3, folder 13.46, <a href="http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/" target="_blank">Special and Area Studies Collections</a>, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida.
Is Format Of
Digital reproduction of original letter from Sydney Octavius Chase to Joshua Coffin Chase, August 26, 1927.
Digital reproduction of copied letter from Joshua Coffin Chas to Archie M. Pratt, August 21, 1927.
Is Part Of
Chase Collection (MS 14), box 3, folder 13.46, <a href="http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/" target="_blank">Special and Area Studies Collections</a>, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida.
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/100" target="_blank">Florida Citrus Exchange Collection </a>, Chase Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.
Audience Education Level
SS.K.A.1.2; SS.1.A.1.1; SS.1.A.2.2; SS.1.A.2.4; SS.1.E.1.4; SS.2.A.1.1; SS.3.A.1.1; SS.4.A.1.1; SS.4.A.7.1; SS.4.E.1.1; SS.4.E.1.2; SS.5.A.1.1; SS.6.W.1.3; SS.7.E.2.4; SS.8.A.1.5; SS.8.E.2.1; SS.8.E.2.3; SS.912.A.1.1; SS.912.A.1.6; SS.912.A.5.4; SS.912.E.1.5; SS.912.E.2.3; SS.912.W.1.3
Mediator
History Teacher
Economics Teacher
Bogue, A. R.
Chase and Co.
Chase, Randall
Clearing House
Commander
Eastern Shore Potato
Lee, W. J.
Leffler, William A.
Mouser, W. H.
Newton
Pratt, Archie M.
Tenney
-
https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka/files/original/914cc294503c6b45d4235fc8ed3bab6b.pdf
639f1a57daa2d4911f4da9869ba4ceb2
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
Florida Citrus Exchange Collection
Alternative Title
FEC Collection
Subject
Florida Citrus Exchange
Citrus fruit industry--Florida
Chase and Company (Sanford, Fla.)
Description
Chase & Company was established by Joshua Chase and his brother Sydney in 1884. The company sold insurance and later invested in storage facilities and fertilizer sales. Chase & Company was known mainly for its agricultural interests and maintained a series of citrus groves throughout Central Florida. The company was based out of Sanford, Florida, and became one of the city's largest employers into the early twentieth century. By 1886, the Chase brothers purchased several citrus groves to expand their business, including Isleworth Grove in Windermere. Isleworth Grove covered a total of 1,300 acres along the Butler Chain of Lakes.
Between 1894 and 1895, Central Florida was hit by several freezes and most of the citrus crop was destroyed. Chase & Company did not grow citrus crops again until 1904 when Joshua came back from an extended stay in California. Between 1894 and 1900, different types of pesticide equipment was created, including equipment driven by steam, machines, and horses.
Randall Chase joined in the family business soon after his brother, Sydney Chase, Jr., did in 1922. Randall became the president of Chase & Company from 1948-1965. The Isleworth property stayed in the Chase family until 1984 when Franklin Chase, the son of Sydney Chase, sold the property to famed golfer Arnold Palmer.
Is Part Of
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/23" target="_blank">Chase Collection</a>, RICHES of Central Florida.
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/93" target="_blank">Citrus Collection</a>, Chase Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.
Language
eng
Type
Collection
Provenance
Entire <a href="http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/pkyonge/chase.htm" target="_blank">Chase Collection</a> is comprised of four separate accessions from various donors, including Cecilia Johnson, the granddaughter of Joshua Coffin Chase and the children of Randall Chase.
Rights Holder
The displayed collection items are housed at <a href="http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/" target="_blank">Special and Area Studies Collections</a> at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida. Rights to these items belong to the said institution, and therefore inquiries about these items should be directed there. <a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">RICHES of Central Florida</a> has obtained permission from Special and Area Studies Collections at the University of Florida to display this item for educational purposes only.
Contributing Project
<a href="http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/" target="_blank">Special and Area Studies Collections</a>, University of Florida
<a href="http://ufdc.ufl.edu/" target="_blank">Digital Collections (UFDC)</a>, University of Florida
Curator
Cepero, Laura
Marra, Katherine
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
Source Repository
University of Florida, <a href="http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/" target="_blank">Special and Area Studies Collections</a>
External Reference
"<a href="http://www.sealdsweet.com/welcome/our-history.php" target="_blank">The History of Seald-Sweet</a>." Seald Sweet International. http://www.sealdsweet.com/welcome/our-history.php.
<span>"</span><a href="http://floridacitrushalloffame.com/index.php/inductees/inductee-name/?ref_cID=89&bID=0&dd_asId=600" target="_blank">Sydney Chase Sr. (1860-1941)</a><span>." </span><em>Florida Citrus Hall of Fame</em><span>. Copyright 2012. http://floridacitrushalloffame.com/index.php/inductees/inductee-name/?ref_cID=89&bID=0&dd_asId=600.</span>
<span>Warner, S.C. "</span><a href="http://www.fshs.org/Proceedings/Password%20Protected/1923%20Vol.%2036/198-200%20%28WARNER%29.pdf" target="_blank">Development of Marketing Citrus Fruits in Florida</a><span>." </span><em>Florida State Horticultural Society</em><span> vol. 36 (1923): 198-200.</span>
<span>Hopkins, James T. </span><a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1219230" target="_blank"><em>Fifty Years of Citrus, the Florida Citrus Exchange: 1909-1959</em></a><span>. Gainesville, Florida: University of Florida Press: 1960.</span>
<span>"</span><a href="http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1986-09-30/news/0260060057_1_chase-isleworth-golf-florida-citrus" target="_blank">Franklin Chase, 'Towering Figure in Citrus Industry</a><span>.'" </span><em>The Orlando Sentinel</em><span>, September 30, 1986. http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1986-09-30/news/0260060057_1_chase-isleworth-golf-florida-citrus.</span>
<span>Weaver, Brian. </span><a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/43312643" target="_blank"><em>The Citrus Industry in the Sunshine State</em></a><span>. Charleston, SC: Arcadia, 1999.</span>
<span>"<a href="http://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00086639/00046" target="_blank">Mayo Dade Offers Helpful Aid on Fruit Picking</a>." </span><em>Florida Clearing House News</em><span>, August 25, 1930.</span>
Contributor
<a href="http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/" target="_blank">Special and Area Studies Collections</a><span>, University of Florida</span>
<a href="http://ufdc.ufl.edu/" target="_blank">Digital Collections (UFDC)</a><span>, University of Florida</span>
Coverage
Arcadia, Florida
Babson Park, Florida
Davenport, Florida
Fort Myers, Florida
Frostproof, Florida
Jacksonville, Florida
Lakeland, Florida
Orlando, Florida
Penney Farms, Florida
Pierce, Florida
Sanford, Florida
Tampa, Florida
Wauchula, Florida
Winter Haven, Florida
Document
A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text.
Original Format
1 page typewritten letter on Chase & Company letterhead
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
Letter from Sydney Octavius Chase to Chase & Company members (April 13, 1925)
Alternative Title
Chase Correspondence (April 13, 1925)
Subject
Chase, Sydney Octavius, 1860-1941
Citrus--Florida
Florida Citrus Exchange
Chase and Company (Sanford, Fla.)
Description
An original letter of correspondence written by Sydney Octavius Chase (1860-1941) to employees at Chase & Company in Orlando, Florida. The letter identifies that Chase & Company played an active role in recruiting dissatisfied members from the Florida Citrus Exchange in order to build and extend their business throughout the state. With an increased membership in the company, Chase hoped that including more growers would help balance out the less productive crops in the previous growing season. The letter also shares some of the doubts and distrust that Chase & Company felt toward the Florida Citrus Exchange (FCE), a state organization comprised of a large number of Florida citrus growers. While members who trusted the FCE praised the organization as a united group of growers that promoted better distribution and marketing of their citrus products, growers such as Chase & Company were hesitant to hand over all of their power to a larger organization with poor marketing strategies.
Chase & Company was established in 1884. The company sold insurance and later invested in storage facilities and fertilizer sales. Chase & Company was known mainly for its agricultural interests and maintained a series of citrus groves throughout Central Florida. The company was based out of Sanford and became one of the city's largest employers into the early twentieth century.
Creator
Chase, Sydney Octavius
Source
Original letter from Sydney Octavius Chase to Chase & Company members, April 13, 1925: Chase Collection (MS 14), box 7, folder 14.10A, <a href="http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/" target="_blank">Special and Area Studies Collections</a>, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida.
Date Created
1925-04-13
Is Referenced By
Folder referenced in Chase Collection finding guide, <a title="A Guide to the Chase Collection" href="http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/pkyonge/chase.htm" target="_blank">http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/pkyonge/chase.htm</a>.
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Format
application/pdf
Extent
1,135 KB
Medium
1 page typewritten letter on Chase & Company letterhead
Language
eng
Type
Text
Coverage
Sanford, Florida
Orlando, Florida
Spatial Coverage
28.811729, -81.268138
28.538084, -81.378593
Temporal Coverage
1925-04-13/1925-04-13
Accrual Method
Donation
Provenance
Entire <a href="http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/pkyonge/chase.htm" target="_blank">Chase Collection</a> is comprised of four separate accessions from various donors, including Cecilia Johnson, the granddaughter of Joshua Coffin Chase and the children of Randall Chase.
Rights Holder
The displayed collection item is housed at <a href="http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/" target="_blank">Special and Area Studies Collections</a> at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida. Rights to this item belong to the said institution, and therefore inquiries about the item should be directed there. <a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">RICHES of Central Florida</a> has obtained permission from Special and Area Studies Collections at the University of Florida to display this item for educational purposes only.
Contributing Project
<a href="http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/" target="_blank">Special and Area Studies Collections</a>, University of Florida
<a href="http://ufdc.ufl.edu/" target="_blank">Digital Collections (UFDC)</a>, University of Florida
Curator
Marra, Katherine
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
Source Repository
University of Florida, <a href="http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/" target="_blank">Special and Area Studies Collections</a>
External Reference
"The History of Seald-Sweet." Seald Sweet International. http://www.sealdsweet.com/welcome/our-history.php.
Warner, S.C. "Development of Marketing Citrus Fruits in Florida." <em>Florida State Horticultural Society</em> vol. 36 (1923): 198-200.
"Mayo Dade Offers Helpful Aid on Fruit Picking." <em>Florida Clearing House News</em>, August 25, 1930.
Hopkins, James T. <em>Fifty Years of Citrus, the Florida Citrus Exchange: 1909-1959</em>. Gainesville, Florida: University of Florida Press: 1960.
"Sydney Chase Sr. (1860-1941)." <em>Florida Citrus Hall of Fame</em>. Copyright 2012. http://floridacitrushalloffame.com/index.php/inductees/inductee-name/?ref_cID=89&bID=0&dd_asId=600.
External Reference Title
"<a href="http://www.sealdsweet.com/welcome/our-history.php" target="_blank">The History of Seald-Sweet</a>"
"<a href="http://www.fshs.org/Proceedings/Password%20Protected/1923%20Vol.%2036/198-200%20%28WARNER%29.pdf" target="_blank">Development of Marketing Citrus Fruits in Florida</a>"
"<a href="http://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00086639/00046" target="_blank">Mayo Dade Offers Helpful Aid on Fruit Picking</a>"
<a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1219230" target="_blank"><em>Fifty Years of Citrus, the Florida Citrus Exchange: 1909-1959</em></a>
"<a href="http://floridacitrushalloffame.com/index.php/inductees/inductee-name/?ref_cID=89&bID=0&dd_asId=321" target="_blank">Sydney Chase Sr. (1860-1941)</a>"
Transcript
CHASE & COMPANY
GROWERS' MARKETING AGENTS
PACKERS AND SHIPPERS
FLORIDA DRUITS AND VEGETABLES
SANFORD, FLORIDA
April 13, 1925.
Chase & Company,
Orlando, Fla.
Gentlemen:-
Attention Mr. Mouser.
This will acknowledge yours of the 11th attached to which was form of letter which you were sending out to the different district men for use of the Florida Citrus Exchange shippers who may wish to withdraw from the Exchange this year.
I am glad to get a copy of this form. It is short and simple and any of the district men should be able to memorise it.
Yours very truly,
S.O.Chase
SOC:HMR
DISTRIBUTORS
Sunniland
TRADEMARK
FRUITS AND VEGETABLES
Is Format Of
Digital reproduction of original letter from Sydney Octavius Chase to Chase & Company members, April 13, 1925.
Is Part Of
Chase Collection (MS 14), box 7, folder 14.10A, <a href="http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/" target="_blank">Special and Area Studies Collections</a>, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida.
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/100" target="_blank">Florida Citrus Exchange Collection </a>, Chase Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.
Mediator
History Teacher
Economics Teacher
Geography Teacher
Chase and Co.
FEC
Mouser, W. H.
-
https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka/files/original/652c6360169715b712b16c37c3869e5a.pdf
b74d7093763f27f122187c207d9cf9cc
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
Florida Citrus Exchange Collection
Alternative Title
FEC Collection
Subject
Florida Citrus Exchange
Citrus fruit industry--Florida
Chase and Company (Sanford, Fla.)
Description
Chase & Company was established by Joshua Chase and his brother Sydney in 1884. The company sold insurance and later invested in storage facilities and fertilizer sales. Chase & Company was known mainly for its agricultural interests and maintained a series of citrus groves throughout Central Florida. The company was based out of Sanford, Florida, and became one of the city's largest employers into the early twentieth century. By 1886, the Chase brothers purchased several citrus groves to expand their business, including Isleworth Grove in Windermere. Isleworth Grove covered a total of 1,300 acres along the Butler Chain of Lakes.
Between 1894 and 1895, Central Florida was hit by several freezes and most of the citrus crop was destroyed. Chase & Company did not grow citrus crops again until 1904 when Joshua came back from an extended stay in California. Between 1894 and 1900, different types of pesticide equipment was created, including equipment driven by steam, machines, and horses.
Randall Chase joined in the family business soon after his brother, Sydney Chase, Jr., did in 1922. Randall became the president of Chase & Company from 1948-1965. The Isleworth property stayed in the Chase family until 1984 when Franklin Chase, the son of Sydney Chase, sold the property to famed golfer Arnold Palmer.
Is Part Of
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/23" target="_blank">Chase Collection</a>, RICHES of Central Florida.
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/93" target="_blank">Citrus Collection</a>, Chase Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.
Language
eng
Type
Collection
Provenance
Entire <a href="http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/pkyonge/chase.htm" target="_blank">Chase Collection</a> is comprised of four separate accessions from various donors, including Cecilia Johnson, the granddaughter of Joshua Coffin Chase and the children of Randall Chase.
Rights Holder
The displayed collection items are housed at <a href="http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/" target="_blank">Special and Area Studies Collections</a> at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida. Rights to these items belong to the said institution, and therefore inquiries about these items should be directed there. <a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">RICHES of Central Florida</a> has obtained permission from Special and Area Studies Collections at the University of Florida to display this item for educational purposes only.
Contributing Project
<a href="http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/" target="_blank">Special and Area Studies Collections</a>, University of Florida
<a href="http://ufdc.ufl.edu/" target="_blank">Digital Collections (UFDC)</a>, University of Florida
Curator
Cepero, Laura
Marra, Katherine
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
Source Repository
University of Florida, <a href="http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/" target="_blank">Special and Area Studies Collections</a>
External Reference
"<a href="http://www.sealdsweet.com/welcome/our-history.php" target="_blank">The History of Seald-Sweet</a>." Seald Sweet International. http://www.sealdsweet.com/welcome/our-history.php.
<span>"</span><a href="http://floridacitrushalloffame.com/index.php/inductees/inductee-name/?ref_cID=89&bID=0&dd_asId=600" target="_blank">Sydney Chase Sr. (1860-1941)</a><span>." </span><em>Florida Citrus Hall of Fame</em><span>. Copyright 2012. http://floridacitrushalloffame.com/index.php/inductees/inductee-name/?ref_cID=89&bID=0&dd_asId=600.</span>
<span>Warner, S.C. "</span><a href="http://www.fshs.org/Proceedings/Password%20Protected/1923%20Vol.%2036/198-200%20%28WARNER%29.pdf" target="_blank">Development of Marketing Citrus Fruits in Florida</a><span>." </span><em>Florida State Horticultural Society</em><span> vol. 36 (1923): 198-200.</span>
<span>Hopkins, James T. </span><a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1219230" target="_blank"><em>Fifty Years of Citrus, the Florida Citrus Exchange: 1909-1959</em></a><span>. Gainesville, Florida: University of Florida Press: 1960.</span>
<span>"</span><a href="http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1986-09-30/news/0260060057_1_chase-isleworth-golf-florida-citrus" target="_blank">Franklin Chase, 'Towering Figure in Citrus Industry</a><span>.'" </span><em>The Orlando Sentinel</em><span>, September 30, 1986. http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1986-09-30/news/0260060057_1_chase-isleworth-golf-florida-citrus.</span>
<span>Weaver, Brian. </span><a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/43312643" target="_blank"><em>The Citrus Industry in the Sunshine State</em></a><span>. Charleston, SC: Arcadia, 1999.</span>
<span>"<a href="http://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00086639/00046" target="_blank">Mayo Dade Offers Helpful Aid on Fruit Picking</a>." </span><em>Florida Clearing House News</em><span>, August 25, 1930.</span>
Contributor
<a href="http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/" target="_blank">Special and Area Studies Collections</a><span>, University of Florida</span>
<a href="http://ufdc.ufl.edu/" target="_blank">Digital Collections (UFDC)</a><span>, University of Florida</span>
Coverage
Arcadia, Florida
Babson Park, Florida
Davenport, Florida
Fort Myers, Florida
Frostproof, Florida
Jacksonville, Florida
Lakeland, Florida
Orlando, Florida
Penney Farms, Florida
Pierce, Florida
Sanford, Florida
Tampa, Florida
Wauchula, Florida
Winter Haven, Florida
Document
A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text.
Original Format
1 page typewritten letter on Chase & Company letterhead
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
Letter from Sydney Octavius Chase to Chase & Company Members (April 10, 1925)
Alternative Title
Chase Correspondence (April 10, 1925)
Subject
Chase, Sydney Octavius, 1860-1941
Florida Citrus Exchange
Citrus fruit industry--Florida
Chase and Company (Sanford, Fla.)
Description
An original letter of correspondence written by Sydney Octavius Chase to employees at Chase & Company in Orlando. The letter identifies that Chase & Company played an active role in recruiting dissatisfied members from the Florida Citrus Exchange in order to build and extend their own business throughout the state. With an increased membership in the company, Chase hoped that including more growers would help balance out the less productive crops in the previous growing season. The letter also shares some of the doubts and distrust Chase & Company felt toward the Florida Citrus Exchange, a state organization comprised of a large number of Florida citrus growers. While members who trusted the Exchange praised the organization as a united group of growers that promoted better distribution and marketing of their citrus products, growers such as Chase & Company were hesitant to hand over all of their power to a larger organization with poor marketing strategies.
Chase & Company was established in 1884. The company sold insurance and later invested in storage facilities and fertilizer sales. Chase & Company was known mainly for its agricultural interests and maintained a series of citrus groves throughout Central Florida. The company was based out of Sanford and became one of the city's largest employers into the early twentieth century.
Creator
Chase, Sydney Octavius
Source
Original letter from Sydney Octavius Chase to Chase & Company Members, April 10, 1925: Chase Collection (MS 14), box 7, folder 14.10A, <a href="http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/" target="_blank">Special and Area Studies Collections</a>, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida.
Date Created
1925-04-10
Is Referenced By
Folder referenced in Chase Collection finding guide, <a href="http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/pkyonge/chase.htm" target="_blank">http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/pkyonge/chase.htm</a>.
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Format
application/pdf
Extent
1,357 KB
Medium
1 page typewritten letter on Chase & Company letterhead
Language
eng
Type
Text
Coverage
Jacksonville, Florida
Orlando, Florida
Spatial Coverage
30.3167, -81.6500
28.538084, -81.378593
Temporal Coverage
1925-04-09/1925-04-10
Accrual Method
Donation
Provenance
Entire <a href="http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/pkyonge/chase.htm" target="_blank">Chase Collection</a> is comprised of four separate accessions from various donors, including Cecilia Johnson, the granddaughter of Joshua Coffin Chase and the children of Randall Chase.
Rights Holder
The displayed collection item is housed at <a href="http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/" target="_blank">Special and Area Studies Collections</a> at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida. Rights to this item belong to the said institution, and therefore inquiries about the item should be directed there. <a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">RICHES of Central Florida</a> has obtained permission from Special and Area Studies Collections at the University of Florida to display this item for educational purposes only.
Contributing Project
<a href="http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/" target="_blank">Special and Area Studies Collections</a>, University of Florida
<a href="http://ufdc.ufl.edu/" target="_blank">Digital Collections (UFDC)</a>, University of Florida
Curator
Marra, Katherine
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
Source Repository
University of Florida, <a href="http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/" target="_blank">Special and Area Studies Collections</a>
External Reference
"<a href="http://www.sealdsweet.com/welcome/our-history.php" target="_blank">The History of Seald-Sweet</a>." Seald Sweet International. http://www.sealdsweet.com/welcome/our-history.php.
Warner, S.C. "<a href="http://www.fshs.org/Proceedings/Password%20Protected/1923%20Vol.%2036/198-200%20%28WARNER%29.pdf" target="_blank">Development of Marketing Citrus Fruits in Florida</a>." <em>Florida State Horticultural Society</em> vol. 36 (1923): 198-200.
"<a href="http://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00086639/00046" target="_blank">Mayo Dade Offers Helpful Aid on Fruit Picking</a>." <em>Florida Clearing House News</em>, August 25, 1930.
Hopkins, James T. <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1219230" target="_blank"><em>Fifty Years of Citrus, the Florida Citrus Exchange: 1909-1959</em></a>. Gainesville, Florida: University of Florida Press: 1960.
"<a href="http://floridacitrushalloffame.com/index.php/inductees/inductee-name/?ref_cID=89&bID=0&dd_asId=321" target="_blank">Sydney Chase Sr. (1860-1941)</a>." <em>Florida Citrus Hall of Fame</em>. Copyright 2012. http://floridacitrushalloffame.com/index.php/inductees/inductee-name/?ref_cID=89&bID=0&dd_asId=600.
Transcript
CHASE & CO.
JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA
April 10, 1925.
Chase & Company,
Orlando, Fla.
Gentlemen:-
Attention Mr. Mouser.
I have yours of the 9th enclosing copy of letter which you have mailed to all of the district men in connection with the solicitation of Exchange growers. This is a good letter and should put some pep into the outside men, however you failed to enclose a copy of the form letter which you sent Mr. Dade and others which was to be used in even the grower expressed a desire to withdraw. Let me have a copy of this at your convenience.
Yours very truly,
SOC:HMR
Is Format Of
Digital reproduction of original letter from Sydney Octavius Chase to Chase & Company, April 10, 1925.
Is Part Of
Chase Collection (MS 14), box 7, folder 14.10A, <a href="http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/" target="_blank">Special and Area Studies Collections</a>, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida.
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/100" target="_blank">Florida Citrus Exchange Collection </a>, Chase Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.
Mediator
History Teacher
Economics Teacher
Geography Teacher
Chase and Co.
Chase and Company
Chase, Sydney Octavius
citrus
Dade, Mayo
Florida Citrus Exchange
Mouser, W. H.
-
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Dublin Core
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Transcript
April 8, 1925.
Chase & Company,
Orlando, Fla.
Gentlemen:- Attention Mr. Mouser.
I think it is essential that the Accounting Depart¬ment prepare immediately a statement for each district show¬ing the quantity of fruit moved from each district from March 1 to April 1, prices realized, and add this March re¬port to the previous reports made up so as to show the averages of each district from the beginning of the season up to say April 1.
It is essential that the outside district men be touched up daily as to the necessity of soliciting business for the coming season, and to make use of these statements
of ours which show up good. May could use as a talking
point the fact that Chase, & Company growers get a check for the net proceeds within a reasonable length of time after shipment is wade, and the growers who strike the good market gat the benefit of it, and their averages are not pulled down by being pooled with poor fruit on bad markets. There is a good talking point in this line of argument. I think you understand how to put it up to the district men.
In line "with my suggestion Monday I would have prepared, on plain paper, an outline of a letter of withdrawal for Exchange growers to sign, same to be mailed to the SubExchanges they belongto in order to gat them out of the exchange on or before the date which their contract calls
for said notice to be filed. they want to go into the
Exchange after withdrawal they can do so and if they want to go into an independent marketing agency they can do so. It is an easy matter to tell the men they can write a letter announcing their intention to withdraw, but the district men should have a letter prepared and with them, and when they get their prospective shippers worked up to the proper point get their signature to the letter, hold on to it and mail it, keeping a copy of same. I think Dade, Clemens,Cloward, S. O. Chase, Jr., prank Dade and Vogt should all have several copies of this proposed letter. If the growers are tied up with the exchange for another year it is going to be a mighty hard matter to do business with them, but if they signify their desire to withdraw within the next week or ten days they will then be free to act as they see fit
later on. Too mush importance cannot be placed on active,
strenuous, work along this line between now and May 1.
Yours very truly,
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Title
Florida Citrus Exchange Collection
Alternative Title
FEC Collection
Subject
Florida Citrus Exchange
Citrus fruit industry--Florida
Chase and Company (Sanford, Fla.)
Description
Chase & Company was established by Joshua Chase and his brother Sydney in 1884. The company sold insurance and later invested in storage facilities and fertilizer sales. Chase & Company was known mainly for its agricultural interests and maintained a series of citrus groves throughout Central Florida. The company was based out of Sanford, Florida, and became one of the city's largest employers into the early twentieth century. By 1886, the Chase brothers purchased several citrus groves to expand their business, including Isleworth Grove in Windermere. Isleworth Grove covered a total of 1,300 acres along the Butler Chain of Lakes.
Between 1894 and 1895, Central Florida was hit by several freezes and most of the citrus crop was destroyed. Chase & Company did not grow citrus crops again until 1904 when Joshua came back from an extended stay in California. Between 1894 and 1900, different types of pesticide equipment was created, including equipment driven by steam, machines, and horses.
Randall Chase joined in the family business soon after his brother, Sydney Chase, Jr., did in 1922. Randall became the president of Chase & Company from 1948-1965. The Isleworth property stayed in the Chase family until 1984 when Franklin Chase, the son of Sydney Chase, sold the property to famed golfer Arnold Palmer.
Is Part Of
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/23" target="_blank">Chase Collection</a>, RICHES of Central Florida.
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/93" target="_blank">Citrus Collection</a>, Chase Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.
Language
eng
Type
Collection
Provenance
Entire <a href="http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/pkyonge/chase.htm" target="_blank">Chase Collection</a> is comprised of four separate accessions from various donors, including Cecilia Johnson, the granddaughter of Joshua Coffin Chase and the children of Randall Chase.
Rights Holder
The displayed collection items are housed at <a href="http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/" target="_blank">Special and Area Studies Collections</a> at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida. Rights to these items belong to the said institution, and therefore inquiries about these items should be directed there. <a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">RICHES of Central Florida</a> has obtained permission from Special and Area Studies Collections at the University of Florida to display this item for educational purposes only.
Contributing Project
<a href="http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/" target="_blank">Special and Area Studies Collections</a>, University of Florida
<a href="http://ufdc.ufl.edu/" target="_blank">Digital Collections (UFDC)</a>, University of Florida
Curator
Cepero, Laura
Marra, Katherine
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
Source Repository
University of Florida, <a href="http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/" target="_blank">Special and Area Studies Collections</a>
External Reference
"<a href="http://www.sealdsweet.com/welcome/our-history.php" target="_blank">The History of Seald-Sweet</a>." Seald Sweet International. http://www.sealdsweet.com/welcome/our-history.php.
<span>"</span><a href="http://floridacitrushalloffame.com/index.php/inductees/inductee-name/?ref_cID=89&bID=0&dd_asId=600" target="_blank">Sydney Chase Sr. (1860-1941)</a><span>." </span><em>Florida Citrus Hall of Fame</em><span>. Copyright 2012. http://floridacitrushalloffame.com/index.php/inductees/inductee-name/?ref_cID=89&bID=0&dd_asId=600.</span>
<span>Warner, S.C. "</span><a href="http://www.fshs.org/Proceedings/Password%20Protected/1923%20Vol.%2036/198-200%20%28WARNER%29.pdf" target="_blank">Development of Marketing Citrus Fruits in Florida</a><span>." </span><em>Florida State Horticultural Society</em><span> vol. 36 (1923): 198-200.</span>
<span>Hopkins, James T. </span><a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1219230" target="_blank"><em>Fifty Years of Citrus, the Florida Citrus Exchange: 1909-1959</em></a><span>. Gainesville, Florida: University of Florida Press: 1960.</span>
<span>"</span><a href="http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1986-09-30/news/0260060057_1_chase-isleworth-golf-florida-citrus" target="_blank">Franklin Chase, 'Towering Figure in Citrus Industry</a><span>.'" </span><em>The Orlando Sentinel</em><span>, September 30, 1986. http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1986-09-30/news/0260060057_1_chase-isleworth-golf-florida-citrus.</span>
<span>Weaver, Brian. </span><a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/43312643" target="_blank"><em>The Citrus Industry in the Sunshine State</em></a><span>. Charleston, SC: Arcadia, 1999.</span>
<span>"<a href="http://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00086639/00046" target="_blank">Mayo Dade Offers Helpful Aid on Fruit Picking</a>." </span><em>Florida Clearing House News</em><span>, August 25, 1930.</span>
Contributor
<a href="http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/" target="_blank">Special and Area Studies Collections</a><span>, University of Florida</span>
<a href="http://ufdc.ufl.edu/" target="_blank">Digital Collections (UFDC)</a><span>, University of Florida</span>
Coverage
Arcadia, Florida
Babson Park, Florida
Davenport, Florida
Fort Myers, Florida
Frostproof, Florida
Jacksonville, Florida
Lakeland, Florida
Orlando, Florida
Penney Farms, Florida
Pierce, Florida
Sanford, Florida
Tampa, Florida
Wauchula, Florida
Winter Haven, Florida
Document
A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text.
Original Format
2 page typewritten letter
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Title
Letter from Sydney Octavius Chase to Chase & Company Members (April 8, 1925)
Alternative Title
Chase Correspondence (April 8, 1925)
Subject
Chase, Sydney Octavius, 1860-1941
Citrus fruit industry--Florida
Chase and Company (Sanford, Fla.)
Florida Citrus Exchange
Citrus--Florida
Description
An original letter of correspondence written by Sydney Octavius Chase to employees at Chase & Company in Orlando. The letter identifies that Chase & Company played an active role in recruiting dissatisfied members from the Florida Citrus Exchange in order to build and extend their own business throughout the state. One marketing strategy Chase & Company implemented included comparing sales numbers between the Exchange and its own production numbers. Members within the company solicited and circulated the information to growers in nearby districts. With an increased membership in the company, Chase hoped that including more growers would help balance out the less productive crops in the previous growing season. The letter also shares some of the doubts and distrust Chase & Company felt toward the Exchange, a state organization comprised of a large number of Florida citrus growers. While members who trusted the Exchange praised the organization as a united group of growers that promoted better distribution and marketing of their citrus products, growers such as Chase & Company were hesitant to hand over all of their power to a larger organization with poor marketing strategies.
Chase & Company was established in 1884. The company sold insurance and later invested in storage facilities and fertilizer sales. Chase & Company was known mainly for its agricultural interests and maintained a series of citrus groves throughout Central Florida. The company was based out of Sanford and became one of the city's largest employers into the early twentieth century.
Creator
Chase, Sydney Octavius
Source
Original letter from Sydney Octavius Chase to Chase & Company Members, April 8, 1925: Chase Collection (MS 14), box 7, folder 14.10A, <a href="http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/" target="_blank">Special and Area Studies Collections</a>, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida.
Date Created
1925-04-08
Is Referenced By
Folder referenced in Chase Collection finding guide, <a title="A Guide to the Chase Collection" href="http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/pkyonge/chase.htm" target="_blank">http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/pkyonge/chase.htm</a>.
Requires
<a href='http://www.adobe.com/reader.html' target='_blank'>Adobe Acrobat Reader</a>
Format
application/pdf
Extent
242 KB
Medium
2 page typewritten letter
Language
eng
Type
Text
Coverage
Orlando, Florida
Spatial Coverage
28.538084, -81.378593
Temporal Coverage
1925-04-08/1925-04-08
Accrual Method
Donation
Provenance
Entire <a href="http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/pkyonge/chase.htm" target="_blank">Chase Collection</a> is comprised of four separate accessions from various donors, including Cecilia Johnson, the granddaughter of Joshua Coffin Chase and the children of Randall Chase.
Rights Holder
The displayed collection item is housed at <a href="http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/" target="_blank">Special and Area Studies Collections</a> at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida. Rights to this item belong to the said institution, and therefore inquiries about the item should be directed there. <a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">RICHES of Central Florida</a> has obtained permission from Special and Area Studies Collections at the University of Florida to display this item for educational purposes only.
Contributing Project
<a href="http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/" target="_blank">Special and Area Studies Collections</a>, University of Florida
<a href="http://ufdc.ufl.edu/" target="_blank">Digital Collections (UFDC)</a>, University of Florida
Curator
Marra, Katherine
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
Source Repository
University of Florida, <a href="http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/" target="_blank">Special and Area Studies Collections</a>
External Reference
"The History of Seald-Sweet." Seald Sweet International. http://www.sealdsweet.com/welcome/our-history.php.
Warner, S.C. "Development of Marketing Citrus Fruits in Florida." <em>Florida State Horticultural Society</em> vol. 36 (1923): 198-200.
"Mayo Dade Offers Helpful Aid on Fruit Picking." <em>Florida Clearing House News</em>, August 25, 1930.
Hopkins, James T. <em>Fifty Years of Citrus, the Florida Citrus Exchange: 1909-1959</em>. Gainesville, Florida: University of Florida Press: 1960.
"Sydney Chase Sr. (1860-1941)." <em>Florida Citrus Hall of Fame</em>. Copyright 2012. http://floridacitrushalloffame.com/index.php/inductees/inductee-name/?ref_cID=89&bID=0&dd_asId=600.
External Reference Title
"<a href="http://www.sealdsweet.com/welcome/our-history.php" target="_blank">The History of Seald-Sweet</a>"
"<a href="http://www.fshs.org/Proceedings/Password%20Protected/1923%20Vol.%2036/198-200%20%28WARNER%29.pdf" target="_blank">Development of Marketing Citrus Fruits in Florida</a>"
"<a href="http://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00086639/00046" target="_blank">Mayo Dade Offers Helpful Aid on Fruit Picking</a>"
<a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1219230" target="_blank"><em>Fifty Years of Citrus, the Florida Citrus Exchange: 1909-1959</em></a>
"<a href="http://floridacitrushalloffame.com/index.php/inductees/inductee-name/?ref_cID=89&bID=0&dd_asId=321" target="_blank">Sydney Chase Sr. (1860-1941)</a>"
Is Format Of
Digital reproduction of original letter from Sydney Octavius Chase to Chase & Company Members, April 8, 1925.
Is Part Of
Chase Collection (MS 14), box 7, folder 14.10A, <a href="http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/" target="_blank">Special and Area Studies Collections</a>, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida.
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/100" target="_blank">Florida Citrus Exchange Collection </a>, Chase Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.
Mediator
History Teacher
Economics Teacher
Geography Teacher
Accounting Department
Chase and Co.
Chase, Sydney Octavius, Jr.
Clemens
Cloward
Dade, Frank
FEC
Mouser, W. H.
Vogt
-
https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka/files/original/90552c3748ba212518d13336df1dfe50.jpg
eadd5504264b4bbea40d69f604b301d0
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Title
Sanford Collection
Alternative Title
Sanford Collection
Subject
Sanford (Fla.)
Chase and Company (Sanford, Fla.)
Description
Select images, correspondence, and other records from the Chase Collection (MS 14) at Special and Area Studies Collections at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida. According to the biographical sketch in the collection's finding aid:
"The story of the Chases in Florida began in 1878 when Sydney Octavius Chase (1860-1941), having read about orange groves in Scribner's Magazine, came to Florida from Philadelphia. His brother, Joshua Coffin Chase (1858-1948), joined him in 1884 and together they formed Chase and Company that year. The Chase brothers came to Florida at the right time for Florida citrus and at the right time for them as investment entrepreneurs. Strong family ties in the North provided them with financial backing for their ventures. Joshua left Florida in 1895 to work in the California citrus industry. He returned to Florida in 1904 and rejoined his brother. Another brother, Randall, remained in Philadelphia and augmented his brothers' finances when convenient. Sydney and Joshua were also important civic leaders who took part in community development, most notably in the City of Sanford. Both were elected to the Sanford city commission. They also supported the development of Rollins College, worked with the Florida Historical Society, and were the benefactors of numerous charities.
Chase and Company began as an insurance company and branched out to storage facilities and fertilizer sales. The latter was the beginning of the company's lucrative agricultural supply division which remained in operation throughout the existence of the company. Although citrus was the primary interest, the company also invested in other agricultural pursuits including celery in central Florida, tung oil production in Jefferson County, and winter vegetables and sugar cane in the Lake Okeechobee muck lands. The company was also involved in the peach business in Georgia and North Carolina. The company was incorporated in 1914, with the Chase brothers owning 75 percent of the stock, and reincorporated in 1948. A second generation of Chases began its involvement in the family operations when Sydney O. Chase, Jr. ( b. 1890) became a citrus buyer in 1922. He was later joined by his brother Randall who served as president of Chase and Company from 1948-1965. Outside the Chase Family, Alfred Foster, W. R. Harney, and William "Billy" Leffler figured prominently as company executives and investors. The company dissolved in 1979 when its principal assets were sold to Sunniland for $5.5 million.
The Chases' interest in citrus began when Sydney came to Florida and became associated with General Henry S. Sanford. The Chases would eventually own General Sanford's experimental farm, Belair, and the Chase family home in Sanford was located there. Over the years, the Chases invested in a number of citrus groves and owned others outright. In 1912, they organized the Chase Investment Company as a holding company for their farms. Initially, the company operated the Isleworth, Nocatee, Belair, and Kelly citrus groves as well as celery farms in Sanford. The company was renamed Chase Groves, Inc. in 1951. From time to time, Chase Investment was involved in real estate in Florida and North Carolina. The latter included Fort Caswell, a former military property that was held for a time and then sold. Unquestionably, the jewel in the Chase crown was the Isleworth grove at Windermere. Isleworth's four hundred lake-tempered acres carried the Chases through many difficult times. It proved to be the principal asset at the company's demise when it was sold to golf legend Arnold Palmer in 1984. Chase Groves dissolved that same year, 100 years after the founding of Chase and Company."
Is Part Of
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/23" target="_blank">Chase Collection</a>, RICHES of Central Florida.
Is Referenced By
<a href="http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/pkyonge/chase.htm" target="_blank">A Guide to the Chase Collection</a>
Language
eng
Type
Collection
Coverage
Holy Cross Episcopal Church, Sanford, Florida
Sanford Country Club and Golf Course, Sanford, Florida
Contributing Project
<a href="http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/" target="_blank">Special and Area Studies Collections</a>, University of Florida
<a href="http://ufdc.ufl.edu/" target="_blank">Digital Collections (UFDC)</a><span>, University of Florida</span>
Curator
Cepero, Laura
Marra, Katherine
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
Source Repository
<span>University of Florida, </span><a href="http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/" target="_blank">Special and Area Studies Collections</a>
External Reference
Warner, S.C. "<a href="http://www.fshs.org/Proceedings/Password%20Protected/1923%20Vol.%2036/198-200%20%28WARNER%29.pdf" target="_blank">Development of Marketing Citrus Fruits in Florida</a>." <em>Florida State Horticultural Society</em> vol. 36 (1923): 198-200.
<span>Hopkins, James T. </span><a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1219230" target="_blank"><em>Fifty Years of Citrus, the Florida Citrus Exchange: 1909-1959</em></a><span>. Gainesville, Florida: University of Florida Press: 1960.</span>
<span>"</span><a href="http://floridacitrushalloffame.com/index.php/inductees/inductee-name/?ref_cID=89&bID=0&dd_asId=600" target="_blank">Sydney Chase Sr. (1860-1941)</a><span>." </span><em>Florida Citrus Hall of Fame</em><span>. Copyright 2012. http://floridacitrushalloffame.com/index.php/inductees/inductee-name/?ref_cID=89&bID=0&dd_asId=600.</span>
<span>"</span><a href="http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1986-09-30/news/0260060057_1_chase-isleworth-golf-florida-citrus" target="_blank">Franklin Chase, 'Towering Figure in Citrus Industry</a><span>.'" </span><em>The Orlando Sentinel</em><span>, September 30, 1986. http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1986-09-30/news/0260060057_1_chase-isleworth-golf-florida-citrus.</span>
Contributor
<a href="http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/" target="_blank">Special and Area Studies Collections</a><span>, University of Florida</span>
Has Part
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/94" target="_blank">Holy Cross Episcopal Church Collection</a>, Chase Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/87" target="_blank">Sanford Country Club and Golf Course Collection</a>, Chase Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.
Provenance
<span>Entire </span><a href="http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/pkyonge/chase.htm" target="_blank">Chase Collection</a><span> is comprised of four separate accessions from various donors, including Cecilia Johnson, the granddaughter of Joshua Coffin Chase and the children of Randall Chase.</span>
Rights Holder
<span>The displayed collection is housed at </span><a href="http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/" target="_blank">Special and Area Studies Collections</a><span> at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida. Rights to this item belong to the said institution, and therefore inquiries about the item should be directed there. </span><a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">RICHES of Central Florida</a><span> has obtained permission from Special and Area Studies Collections at the University of Florida to display this item for educational purposes only.</span>
Still Image
A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials.
Original Format
1 black and white postcard
Dublin Core
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Title
Chase & Company Sales Department
Alternative Title
Chase & Co. Sales Department
Subject
Sanford (Fla.)
Chase and Company (Sanford, Fla.)
Description
The Sales Department staff at Chase & Company office, located at 110 West First Street in Sanford, Florida, around 1910. Chase & Company was established in 1884 by brothers Sydney Octavius Chase and Joshua Coffin Chase. The company sold insurance and later invested in storage facilities and fertilizer sales. Chase & Company was known mainly for its agricultural interests and maintained a series of citrus groves throughout Central Florida. The company was based out of Sanford and became one of the city's largest employers into the early twentieth century.
Source
Original 5 x 7 inch black and white photograph: <a href="http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/pkyonge/chase.htm" target="_blank">Chase Collection</a> (MS 14), box 213, folder 15.101, item CC16, Special and Area Studies Collections, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida.
Date Created
ca. 1910
Is Format Of
Digital reproduction of original 5 x 7 inch black and white photograph.
Is Part Of
<a href="http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/pkyonge/chase.htm" target="_blank">Chase Collection</a> (MS 14), box 214, folder 15.101, Special and Area Studies Collections, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida.
Is Referenced By
Folder referenced in Chase Collection finding guide, <a href="http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/pkyonge/chase.htm" target="_blank">http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/pkyonge/chase.htm</a>.
Format
image/jpg
Extent
149 KB
Medium
5 x 7 black and white photograph
Language
eng
Type
Still Image
Coverage
Sanford, Florida
Accrual Method
Donation
Mediator
History Teacher
Economics Teacher
Provenance
Entire <a href="http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/pkyonge/chase.htm" target="_blank">Chase Collection</a> is comprised of four separate accessions from various donors, including Cecilia Johnson, the granddaughter of Joshua Coffin Chase and the children of Randall Chase.
Rights Holder
The displayed collection item is housed at <a href="http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/" target="_blank">Special and Area Studies Collections</a> at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida. Rights to this item belong to the said institution, and therefore inquiries about the item should be directed there. <a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">RICHES of Central Florida</a> has obtained permission from Special and Area Studies Collections at the University of Florida to display this item for educational purposes only.
Contributing Project
<a href="http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/" target="_blank">Special and Area Studies Collections</a>, University of Florida
<a href="http://ufdc.ufl.edu/" target="_blank">Digital Collections (UFDC)</a>, University of Florida
Curator
Cepero, Laura
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/">RICHES MI</a>
Source Repository
University of Florida, <a href="http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/" target="_blank">Special and Area Studies Collections</a>
External Reference
"<a href="http://floridacitrushalloffame.com/index.php/inductees/inductee-name/?ref_cID=89&bID=0&dd_asId=321" target="_blank">Sydney Chase Sr. (1860-1941)</a>." <em>Florida Citrus Hall of Fame</em>. Copyright 2012. http://floridacitrushalloffame.com/index.php/inductees/inductee-name/?ref_cID=89&bID=0&dd_asId=600.
Transcript
SALES DEPARTMENT ABOUT 1910
Mr. Bozwell[?]
Miss Winslow
W. H. Mouser
Robert Morrow
1st Street
Bozwell
Chase and Company
First St.
First Street
Morrow, Robert
Mouser, W. H.
sales department
Sanford
staff
Winslow