Curtis Packing

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Summary
Business

Dried Fruit Packer
Main Location

Los Gatos
Active

1885 - 1917

Curtis Packing was a northern California dried fruit packer operating around the beginning of the 20th century. The company had offices in San Francisco, with a packing house in Fresno in the San Joaquin Valley. The company sold 22,000 cases of raisins in 1886[1]. John K. Curtis was the president in 1892. The Vice-President and Superintendent in 1888 was John Wesley North, an 1841 grad of Wellseley and a lawyer[2].


The company was apparently unrelated to H.D. Curtis in Los Gatos.

Locations

  1. Steven Stoll, The Fruits of Natural Advantage: Making the Industrial Countryside in California, University of California Press, 1998.
  2. John Wesley North: General Catalog of the Psi Upsilon Fraternity, Comentus Press, Bethlehem PA, 1888.
  3. James Hartigan Biography: History of Fresno County, California, 1919, Historic Record Co. Cites Curtis Fruit packing house in Fresno in 1885.
Location Years Address Details
Fresno 1885[3]