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This is the original charter for the Kansas Sinaloa Investment Company of Dickinson County, Kansas. The corporation charter was filed with the Kansas Secretary of State's Office on July 11, 1889. The directors were: C. B. Hoffman, Enterprise, Kansas; J. W. Breidenthal, Chetopa, Kansas; Mrs. U. A. McOmber, Ottawa, Kansas; James Butler, Palco, Kansas; J. N. Limbocker, Manhattan, Kansas; C. J. Lamb, Kirwin, Kansas; P. B. Maxon, Emporia, Kansas; G. C. Miller, Ellis, Kansas, and G. C. Clemens, Topeka, Kansas. The group provided financial support for a utopian colony on Topolobampo Bay on the Gulf of California in Mexico, which was founded by the Credit Foncier Company of Sinaloa. Christian B. Hoffman was an idealistic banker and mill owner who led a group of Kansas colonists to Topolobampo in 1891. However, he withdrew his involvement in May, 1893, after disagreements with the leader of Credit Foncier, Albert Kimsey Owen.
Creator: Kansas Sinaloa Investment Company
Date: July 11, 1889
Item Number: 440397
Call Number: 70-03-01-01
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 440397
Collections - State Archives - Secretary of State
Community Life - Town development - Collective/Utopian communities
Date - 1880s - 1889
Government and Politics - Reform and Protest - Socialism
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Record, Government
People - Notable Kansans
Places - Counties - Dickinson
Thematic Time Period - Immigration and Settlement, 1854 - 1890
Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Government records
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