H.E. Losse and Company
| Business |
Dried Fruit Packer |
|---|---|
| Main Location |
San Jose |
| Active |
1900-1917 |
| Predecessors |
A. C. Kuhn & Company |
| Successors |
Rosenberg Brothers |
Successor to A. C. Kuhn & Company, run by Henry E. Losse. The company started operating under this name around 1900. According to 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.
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. |
Details
Predecessor: A.C. Kuhn and Company
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.
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.