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'''Edmund Nutting Richmond'''  ("Ed") was a San Jose dried fruit packer and businessman.
 
'''Edmund Nutting Richmond'''  ("Ed") was a San Jose dried fruit packer and businessman.
Richmond started in the dire fruit business working for [[J. K. Armsby]] in 1902<ref>Edmund Nutting Richmond: in  Eugene T. Sawyer, [http://www.santaclararesearch.net/SCBIOS/enrichmond.html http://www.santaclararesearch.net/SCBIOS/enrichmond.html History of Santa Clara County], Historical Record Co., 1922</ref>, but broke off on his own by 1918Joining with [[Elmer Chase]], Richmond formed the new [[Richmond Chase]] company which grew into a large dried fruit packer and canner.
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Richmond started in the dried fruit business working for [[J. K. Armsby]] in 1902<ref>Edmund Nutting Richmond: in  Eugene T. Sawyer, [http://www.santaclararesearch.net/SCBIOS/enrichmond.html http://www.santaclararesearch.net/SCBIOS/enrichmond.html History of Santa Clara County], Historical Record Co., 1922</ref> and managed the company's Santa Clara valley packing house.  In 1916, Richmond decided to strike out on his own, leasing the former Hayes dried fruit packing house in Edenvale<ref>Popular San Jose Manager Leaves Armsby Company: [https://books.google.com/books?id=El9RAAAAYAAJ&lpg=PA11&ots=a3x5HqCnbR&dq=%22e.%20n.%20richmond%22%20edenvale&pg=PA11#v=onepage&q=%22e.%20n.%20richmond%22%20edenvale&f=false April 22, 1916 California Fruit News].</ref>Within three years, Richmond joined with [[Elmer Chase]] to form the new [[Richmond Chase]] company which grew into a large dried fruit packer and canner.  Richmond also owned orchard and ranch land in the Santa Clara valley.
  
 
Richmond lived at the corner of Asbury and Myrtle in San Jose.
 
Richmond lived at the corner of Asbury and Myrtle in San Jose.
  
 
A strange poem suggests he once rescued Dorothy Gish, a movie star, from a car accident<ref>Moving Pictures: The Course of True Love: [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=7Ho1AAAAIBAJ&sjid=luMFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1303%2C3124666 September 16, 1918 San Jose Evening News]. "Ed Richmond is // a quiet chap.  He thinks // of naught but prunes, and sits.  All day behind // a desk, and whistles merry tunes".</ref>.
 
A strange poem suggests he once rescued Dorothy Gish, a movie star, from a car accident<ref>Moving Pictures: The Course of True Love: [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=7Ho1AAAAIBAJ&sjid=luMFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1303%2C3124666 September 16, 1918 San Jose Evening News]. "Ed Richmond is // a quiet chap.  He thinks // of naught but prunes, and sits.  All day behind // a desk, and whistles merry tunes".</ref>.
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Latest revision as of 08:09, 31 January 2015

Edmund Nutting Richmond
Employer Richmond Chase
Occupation Dried fruit packer

Edmund Nutting Richmond ("Ed") was a San Jose dried fruit packer and businessman. Richmond started in the dried fruit business working for J. K. Armsby in 1902[1] and managed the company's Santa Clara valley packing house. In 1916, Richmond decided to strike out on his own, leasing the former Hayes dried fruit packing house in Edenvale[2]. Within three years, Richmond joined with Elmer Chase to form the new Richmond Chase company which grew into a large dried fruit packer and canner. Richmond also owned orchard and ranch land in the Santa Clara valley.

Richmond lived at the corner of Asbury and Myrtle in San Jose.

A strange poem suggests he once rescued Dorothy Gish, a movie star, from a car accident[3].


References

  1. Edmund Nutting Richmond: in Eugene T. Sawyer, http://www.santaclararesearch.net/SCBIOS/enrichmond.html History of Santa Clara County, Historical Record Co., 1922
  2. Popular San Jose Manager Leaves Armsby Company: April 22, 1916 California Fruit News.
  3. Moving Pictures: The Course of True Love: September 16, 1918 San Jose Evening News. "Ed Richmond is // a quiet chap. He thinks // of naught but prunes, and sits. All day behind // a desk, and whistles merry tunes".