American Fruit Product Company - Revision history

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-The '''American Fruit Product Company''' was a Rochester, New York-based wholesaler who operated fruit drying plants in San Jose, Winters, and Vacaville<ref>SOLANO: [http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=PRP19080523.2.12 May 23, 1908 Pacific Rural Press]. "Advices from Suisun state that the American Fruit Product Co. of Rochester, N. V., has entered the California field and will operate in Suisun. Branch offices will also be established in Vacaville and Winters. The Pacific Coast headquarters of the company will be at San Jose, where products of the Santa Clara valley will be handled. The new company will handle principally dried fruits, which will be sold in the company's branch offices in the East and in foreign countries. "</ref>dried fruit processor with a plant in San Jose during 1907-1908.  An advertisement in the July 12, 1908 San Jose Mercury and Herald describes them as the "Pacific Coast Branch", "located in the Ernst Luehning Packing House, at San Carlos and Narrow Gauge R. R., are prepared to handle all varieties of dried fruit<ref>[http://infoweb.newsbank.com/iw-search/we/HistArchive/?p_product=EANX-NB&p_theme=ahnp&p_nbid=N54V59PNMTM4Mzc5OTM1OS4zNDgyMzc6MToxNTpyYS1zYW50YWNsYXJhcGw&p_action=doc&s_lastnonissuequeryname=NaN&d_viewref=search&p_queryname=NaN&p_docnum=7&p_docref=v2:1126156B6E3010F0@EANX-NB-1146987A0516B818@2418135-1146987AC1388000@6 July 12, 1908 San Jose Sunday Mercury and Herald].</ref>.
+The '''American Fruit Product Company''' was a Rochester, New York-based wholesaler who operated fruit drying plants in San Jose, Winters, and Vacaville<ref>SOLANO: [http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=PRP19080523.2.12 May 23, 1908 Pacific Rural Press]. "Advices from Suisun state that the American Fruit Product Co. of Rochester, N. V., has entered the California field and will operate in Suisun. Branch offices will also be established in Vacaville and Winters. The Pacific Coast headquarters of the company will be at San Jose, where products of the Santa Clara valley will be handled. The new company will handle principally dried fruits, which will be sold in the company's branch offices in the East and in foreign countries. "</ref>dried fruit processor with a plant in San Jose during 1907-1908.  An advertisement in the July 12, 1908 San Jose Mercury and Herald describes them as the "Pacific Coast Branch", "located in the Ernst Luehning Packing House, at San Carlos and Narrow Gauge R. R., are prepared to handle all varieties of dried fruit<ref>[https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SJMN19080709.2.78.4&srpos=8&e=-------en--20-SJMN-1--txt-txIN-luehning-------1 July 9, 1908 San Jose Mercury and Herald].</ref>.
 R.A. Howard was the manager in 1909<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=_9JKAQAAIAAJ&lpg=PT65&ots=W5eeDlixcl&dq=%22American%20fruit%20product%22%20san%20jose&pg=PT65#v=onepage&q=%22American%20fruit%20product%22%20san%20jose&f=false Polk's 1909-1910 San Jose City Directory].  "American Fruit Product Co., San Jose branch.</ref>.  The company apparently existed as late as 1915, appearing in a list of canners in San Jose named in a plan to dredge the Guadalupe River for easier navigation<ref>War Department, "Preliminary Investigation of the South End of San Francisco Bay, Cal." In   [http://books.google.com/books?id=prU3AQAAIAAJ&lpg=RA8-PA18&ots=wOxgHq2_TT&dq=%22American%20fruit%20product%22%20san%20jose&pg=RA8-PA18#v=onepage&q=%22American%20fruit%20product%22%20san%20jose&f=false House Documents, 65th Congress, Second Session].  December 3, 1917 - November 21, 1918.</ref>.

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 Few other mentions exist for the company, apart from a generically-worded Supreme Court decision in United Surety Co. vs American Fruit Product<ref> United Surety Co. v. American Fruit Product Co. - 238 U.S. 140 (1915) [http://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/238/140/case.html Error to the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia].</ref>.
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 | San Jose || 1907-1909 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=San%20Carlos%20and%20Narrow%20Gauge%20Ry,San%20Jose San Carlos and Narrow Gauge Ry] || Former Luehning packing house.
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-The '''American Fruit Product Company''' was a dried fruit processor with a plant in San Jose during 1907-1908.  An advertisement in the July 12, 1908 San Jose Mercury and Herald describes them as the "Pacific Coast Branch", "located in the Ernst Luehning Packing House, at San Carlos and Narrow Gauge R. R., are prepared to handle all varieties of dried fruit<ref>[http://infoweb.newsbank.com/iw-search/we/HistArchive/?p_product=EANX-NB&p_theme=ahnp&p_nbid=N54V59PNMTM4Mzc5OTM1OS4zNDgyMzc6MToxNTpyYS1zYW50YWNsYXJhcGw&p_action=doc&s_lastnonissuequeryname=NaN&d_viewref=search&p_queryname=NaN&p_docnum=7&p_docref=v2:1126156B6E3010F0@EANX-NB-1146987A0516B818@2418135-1146987AC1388000@6 July 12, 1908 San Jose Sunday Mercury and Herald].</ref>.
+The '''American Fruit Product Company''' was a Rochester, New York-based wholesaler who operated fruit drying plants in San Jose, Winters, and Vacaville<ref>SOLANO: [http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=PRP19080523.2.12 May 23, 1908 Pacific Rural Press]. "Advices from Suisun state that the American Fruit Product Co. of Rochester, N. V., has entered the California field and will operate in Suisun. Branch offices will also be established in Vacaville and Winters. The Pacific Coast headquarters of the company will be at San Jose, where products of the Santa Clara valley will be handled. The new company will handle principally dried fruits, which will be sold in the company's branch offices in the East and in foreign countries. "</ref>dried fruit processor with a plant in San Jose during 1907-1908.  An advertisement in the July 12, 1908 San Jose Mercury and Herald describes them as the "Pacific Coast Branch", "located in the Ernst Luehning Packing House, at San Carlos and Narrow Gauge R. R., are prepared to handle all varieties of dried fruit<ref>[http://infoweb.newsbank.com/iw-search/we/HistArchive/?p_product=EANX-NB&p_theme=ahnp&p_nbid=N54V59PNMTM4Mzc5OTM1OS4zNDgyMzc6MToxNTpyYS1zYW50YWNsYXJhcGw&p_action=doc&s_lastnonissuequeryname=NaN&d_viewref=search&p_queryname=NaN&p_docnum=7&p_docref=v2:1126156B6E3010F0@EANX-NB-1146987A0516B818@2418135-1146987AC1388000@6 July 12, 1908 San Jose Sunday Mercury and Herald].</ref>.
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-| San Jose || 1907 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=San%20Carlos%20and%20Narrow%20Gauge%20Ry,San%20Jose San Carlos and Narrow Gauge Ry] || Former Luehning packing house.
+| San Jose || 1907-1909 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=San%20Carlos%20and%20Narrow%20Gauge%20Ry,San%20Jose San Carlos and Narrow Gauge Ry] || Former Luehning packing house.
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-==Details==
+==References==
 [[Category:San Jose]]
 [[Category:Cannery]]

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-[[California Fruit Canners Association]] is colocated; Armsby was still up on Cinnabar.
+Canning-related business that appears in the 1907 city directories.  [[California Fruit Canners Association]] gives the same address that year, suggesting that the company is at the future Del Monte #3 plant.
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-| title = Summary
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-| header1 = Business Details
+| primary_town = San Jose
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 ==Summary==