Arizona Asbestos Association Stockholders' and Directors' Meeting Minutes (1918 and 1924)

Four pages of typed minutes of the Arizona Asbestos Association, the company that owned the chrysotile claims at Chrysotile, Arizona: the annual stockholders' meeting and the directors' meeting of December 26, 1918, held in New York, and the annual stockholders' meeting of December 26, 1924. In 1918 T. F. Manville voted 99,995 of the 100,000 shares for the H. W. Johns-Manville Company, and the five directors (three Manvilles, W. R. Seigle and C. H. Shoemaker) elected T. F. Manville president. The 1924 meeting re-elected the same board, with Manville present "as President of Johns-Manville Incorporated."

What it shows

The minutes show that by 1918 the Arizona company was in effect a Johns-Manville subsidiary, run by the Manville family from J-M's New York offices. Its later history is told in Corporate History of the Arizona Asbestos Association, with Its 1922 Land Patent (c. 1942).