Greenback Telephone Company articles of incorporation

Collection

Identifier: Coll 1092

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Articles of incorporation for the Greenback Telephone Company of Shedd, Oregon. The document lists all members of the company and states that they wished to incorporate in order to carry out the company's objectives without profit to the company or to its members. The name of one member, Dr. H. E. Penland, has been crossed out with pencil. Article III names O. H. Froman as president, Frank Pimm as secretary, and T. R. Springer as vice president. That article also states that officers were to be elected on the second Monday of each January at the Greenback School House.

Dates

Creation: 1945 January 30

Creator

Greenback Telephone Company (Shedd, Or.) (Organization)

Conditions Governing Access

Collection is open for research.

Conditions Governing Use

The Oregon Historical Society owns the materials in the Research Library and makes available reproductions for research, publication, and other uses. The Society does not necessarily hold copyright to all materials in the collections. In some cases, permission for use may require seeking additional authorization from copyright owners.

Historical Note

Shedd is a town in Linn County, Oregon. A post office named Boston Mills was established near there in 1869. In 1871, the post office's name was changed to Shedds after Frank Shedd, who owned the land where the post office was built. The railroad south from Albany began referring to the community as Shedd in 1899, and the post office changed the name to Shedd in 1915. The population of Shedd was 213 in 2020.

Sources: Entry for Shedd in "Oregon Geographic Names," edited by Lewis L. McArthur, seventh edition, 2003, page 865; U.S. Census Bureau profile of Shedd, "Shedd CDP, Oregon" (accessed August 5, 2025), https://data.census.gov/profile/Shedd_CDP,_Oregon?g=160XX00US4166900

Biographical Note

Otho H. Froman (1890-1984) was a farmer from Oakville, Oregon, who worked on a wheat farm near Pendleton, Oregon, and at Thompson Mills in Shedd, Oregon. Frank DeWitt Pimm (1893-1957) was a farmer and schoolteacher in Shedd. Thomas R. Springer (1896-1987) was a farmer in Shedd.

Sources: Obituary for Otho H. Froman in the Statesman-Journal (Salem, Oregon), January 7, 1984, page 16; obituary for Frank D. Pimm in the Albany Democrat-Herald (Albany, Oregon), June 24, 1957, page 9; vital and census records via Ancestry.com.

Extent

0.1 Cubic Feet (1 folder in shared box)

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Abstract

Articles of incorporation for the Greenback Telephone Company of Shedd, Oregon. The document lists the company's officers as O. H. Froman (1890-1987), Frank Pimm (1893-1957), and T. R. Springer (1896-1987). Froman, Pimm, and Springer all lived or worked in Shedd, a town in Linn County, Oregon.