Maxwell and Panknin Coal Company collection, 1900-1919

Authors

Special Collections, Leonard H. Axe Library

Files

Description

The Maxwell & Panknin Coal Company Collection (also spelled Pankinin on some documents) consists of a ledger book, letter, receipts, meeting minutes, and a loose ledger pertaining to a business operation with the Clabourn & Baugh Drill Contractors.

Approximately 1916, Henry W. Panknin (1885-1944) and John Maxwell (1853-1924) and their brothers took over a mine on a 40-acre lot south of Scammon, Kansas. The mine, which was about 50 feet deep (dug by Grant Clabourn and Hale Baugh’s drills operated as the Maxwell and Panknin Coal Company until the late 1920s.

Publication Date

12-9-2021

Keywords

Business and Industry, Social Life and Customs

Disciplines

Business

Size of Collection

0.3 linear feet

Dates of Collection

1900-1919

Manuscript Number

SpC MS 0354

Recommended Citation

Special Collections, Leonard H. Axe Library, "Maxwell and Panknin Coal Company collection, 1900-1919" (2021). Finding Aids. 364.
https://digitalcommons.pittstate.edu/fa/364