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Successor to [[A. C. Kuhn %26 Company]], run by [[Henry E. Losse]].  The company started operating under this name around 1900.  According to
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'''H.E. Losse and Company''' was a dried fruit packer in San Jose, and the successor company to [[A. C. Kuhn %26 Company]].  The principal for the company was [[Henry E. Losse]].  The company started operating under this name around 1900.  The San Jose packing house burned in 1911<ref>Henry E. Losse: in Eugene Sawyer, [http://www.mariposaresearch.net/santaclararesearch/SCBIOS/wclosse.htm History of Santa Clara County], 1922</ref>, and the company moved to his existing Santa Clara packing house.  Losse sold the company to sold to [[Rosenberg Brothers]] in 1917.
[http://www.mariposaresearch.net/santaclararesearch/SCBIOS/wclosse.html Sawyer's 1922 History of Santa Clara County], the packing house burned in 1911, and the company moved to his existing Santa Clara packing house.  Losse sold the company to sold to [[Rosenberg Brothers]] in 1917.
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The plant handled around 25,000,000 pounds of dried fruit a year.
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The San Jose packing house was extended in 1902 with a third floor to the business and an office<ref>[http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cdnc/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&amp;cl=search&amp;d=PRP19020823.2.28.1&amp;srpos=19&amp;e=-------en--20--1--txt-IN-%22a+%26+C+ham%22----# August 23, 1902 San Francisco Call]</ref>.
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Predecessor: A.C. Kuhn and Company
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Founded by early dried fruit pioneer after 1887; their plant handled 25 million pounds of dried fruit a year.  Sold to Roseberg Brothers in 1917.
 
  
[http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cdnc/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&amp;cl=search&amp;d=PRP19020823.2.28.1&amp;srpos=19&amp;e=-------en--20--1--txt-IN-%22a+%26+C+ham%22----# August 23, 1902 San Francisco Call] noted that they added third floor to building and office in 1902.
 
  
H.E. Losse was Henry E. Losse was part of a wholesale grocer in the midwest (Losse, Kuhn, and Longer), and came out to the Valley in the 1890's and stayed.  He opened a dried fruit packing house near the San Jose depot.  He also started with a 1100 acre ranch at Visalia which he sold to the [[California Packing Corporation]].  The Ryland Street packing house burned in 1911, and he opened another packing house in Santa Clara which he sold (in 1917?) to [[Rosenberg Brothers]].  H.E. Losse died in 1918.
 
  
[http://www.mariposaresearch.net/santaclararesearch/SCBIOS/alosse.html Weir C. Losse biography] [[Category:San Jose]]
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[[Category:Dried Fruit Packer]]

Revision as of 04:08, 1 November 2013

Summary
Business

Dried Fruit Packer
Main Location

San Jose
Active

1900-1917
Predecessors

A. C. Kuhn & Company
Successors

Rosenberg Brothers

H.E. Losse and Company was a dried fruit packer in San Jose, and the successor company to A. C. Kuhn & Company. The principal for the company was Henry E. Losse. The company started operating under this name around 1900. The San Jose packing house burned in 1911[1], and the company moved to his existing Santa Clara packing house. Losse sold the company to sold to Rosenberg Brothers in 1917.

The plant handled around 25,000,000 pounds of dried fruit a year.

The San Jose packing house was extended in 1902 with a third floor to the business and an office[2].


Locations

Location Years Address Details
San Jose 1900-1911 San Pedro near Ryland Burned in 1911 according to Sawyer's 1922 History of Santa Clara County.
Santa Clara 1911-1917 Sold to Rosenberg Brothers.

References