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==Summary==
 
 
Early dried fruit packer, often tied with with H.E. Losse.  Became [http://san-jose-packing-houses.appspot.com/view?industry=h.e._losse_and_company [[H.E. Losse and Company]]] after 1900.
 
Early dried fruit packer, often tied with with H.E. Losse.  Became [http://san-jose-packing-houses.appspot.com/view?industry=h.e._losse_and_company [[H.E. Losse and Company]]] after 1900.
 
==Locations==
 
==Locations==

Revision as of 15:46, 29 July 2013

Summary
Business

Dried Fruit Packer
Active

1892 - 1900
Successors

H.E. Losse and Company

Early dried fruit packer, often tied with with H.E. Losse. Became H.E. Losse and Company after 1900.

Locations

Location Years Address Details
San Jose 1892, 1893, 1896, 1900 San Pedro at corner of Ryland

Listed as northeast corner in 1892 city Directory.

Details

1891 Sanborn map shows as "Lossckuhn and Larger Dried Fruit Packers and Shippers", with the annotation "substantial and well-painted". On North San Pedro, east side of street, just north of railroad tracks.

Kuhn purchased 1100 acres in Tulare County in 1891 according to History of Tulare and Kings County (Menefee and Dodge)

1900 directory shows them as A.C. Kuhn & Co (A.C. Kuhn and H.E. Losse), so likely H.E. Losse was the successor.

Mention of A.C. Kuhn ranch in San Jose in 1921 in classified ad for walnut grafting wood in February 12, 1921