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Successor to [http://san-jose-packing-houses.appspot.com/view?industry=a_c_kuhn_and_co A.C. Kuhn and Company] .  The company started operating under this name around 1900, and was sold to [[Rosenberg Brothers]] in 1917.
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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.
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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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| San Jose || 1902, 1904, 1906, 1907 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=San%20Pedro%20near%20Ryland,San%20Jose San Pedro near Ryland] ||  
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| San Jose || 1900-1911 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=San%20Pedro%20near%20Ryland,San%20Jose San Pedro near Ryland] || Burned in 1911<ref>Packing House Fire Loss Is Covered By Insurance: [http://docs.newsbank.com/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info:sid/iw.newsbank.com:EANX-NB&rft_val_format=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx&rft_dat=113887D695E3F160&svc_dat=HistArchive:ahnpdoc&req_dat=1633CF8ECE5A48E5B7974C9CF0EE2D33 November 4, 1911 San Jose Evening News].  "The Chilton & Company to the east of the Losse plant and that of the Farmers' Union west of it were saved... the fire started in the sulphuring department."</ref><ref>Lively Market Prevented Extraordinary Loss In Destruction of Packing House of H. E. Losse Co.: [http://docs.newsbank.com/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info:sid/iw.newsbank.com:EANX-NB&rft_val_format=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx&rft_dat=114D95345D5C3470&svc_dat=HistArchive:ahnpdoc&req_dat=1633CF8ECE5A48E5B7974C9CF0EE2D33 San Jose Sunday Mercury and Herald, November 5, 1911].  Includes pictures and details.</ref>.
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| Santa Clara || 1911-1917 || || Sold to [[Rosenberg Brothers]].
 
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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.
 
  
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[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.
 
  
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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.
 
  
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[http://www.mariposaresearch.net/santaclararesearch/SCBIOS/alosse.html Weir C. Losse biography] [[Category:San Jose]]
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[[Category:Dried Fruit Packer]]

Latest revision as of 04:30, 7 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[3][4].
Santa Clara 1911-1917 Sold to Rosenberg Brothers.

References

  1. ↑ Henry E. Losse: in Eugene Sawyer, History of Santa Clara County, 1922
  2. ↑ August 23, 1902 San Francisco Call
  3. ↑ Packing House Fire Loss Is Covered By Insurance: November 4, 1911 San Jose Evening News. "The Chilton & Company to the east of the Losse plant and that of the Farmers' Union west of it were saved... the fire started in the sulphuring department."
  4. ↑ Lively Market Prevented Extraordinary Loss In Destruction of Packing House of H. E. Losse Co.: San Jose Sunday Mercury and Herald, November 5, 1911. Includes pictures and details.
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