American Crystal Sugar Company

The origins of the company date back to 1890 when Henry Oxnard - a pioneer of beet sugar in the US - together with other investors opened a beet sugar factory in Grand Island, Nebraska. Further plants are built (including one in California) and by 1899 the four plants are combined into American Beet Sugar Company. The growing company is renamed American Crystal Sugar in 1934. Eventually the company focusses all its production on the Red River Valley and in 1973 merges with the Red River Valley Sugarbeet Growers Association to form the first farmer-owned beet sugar cooperative. Today the company has  six factories in Minnesota, Montana and North Dakota and its headquarters in Moorehead, Minnesota. Incoporated in New Jersey.

Specimen certificate for 100 shares. Typical design for the period. Punchholes and stamped “Specimen”.