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| − | + | '''Vernon Campbell''' was a canning expert and operator of canneries. Campbell is best known for inventing a process for canning ripe olives, which turned into the [[Lindsay Ripe Olive Company]]<ref>Lindsay Ripe Olive Company: In Kathleen | |
| + | Edwards Small & J. Larry Smith, [http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/biographies/l/lindsay-olive-co.txt History of Tulare County and Kings County, California], Vol. II, Chicago, The S. J. Clarke Publishing | ||
| + | Company, 1926., p. 448.</ref>. Campbell later was known as the public face of the [[California Cooperative Canneries]], an Armour-backed company intended to help the meatpacker get into the fruit business. After a long battle, Armour lost on anti-trust grounds. | ||
Campbell had also been the manager of a Tulare cannery, and was quoted in the [http://books.google.com/books?id=TXlRAAAAYAAJ&lpg=PA13&ots=9U2aDFAoEu&dq=%22central%20california%20cannery%22&pg=PA13#v=onepage&q=%22central%20california%20cannery%22&f=false July 26, 1913 California Fruit News]. | Campbell had also been the manager of a Tulare cannery, and was quoted in the [http://books.google.com/books?id=TXlRAAAAYAAJ&lpg=PA13&ots=9U2aDFAoEu&dq=%22central%20california%20cannery%22&pg=PA13#v=onepage&q=%22central%20california%20cannery%22&f=false July 26, 1913 California Fruit News]. | ||
Revision as of 16:17, 19 August 2014
Vernon Campbell was a canning expert and operator of canneries. Campbell is best known for inventing a process for canning ripe olives, which turned into the Lindsay Ripe Olive Company[1]. Campbell later was known as the public face of the California Cooperative Canneries, an Armour-backed company intended to help the meatpacker get into the fruit business. After a long battle, Armour lost on anti-trust grounds.
Campbell had also been the manager of a Tulare cannery, and was quoted in the July 26, 1913 California Fruit News.
- ↑ Lindsay Ripe Olive Company: In Kathleen Edwards Small & J. Larry Smith, History of Tulare County and Kings County, California, Vol. II, Chicago, The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1926., p. 448.