Vernon Campbell
| Vernon Campbell | |
| Employer | California Cooperative Canneries |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Canner |
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].
With his brother Kemper, he founded the American Olive Company in Los Angeles in 1904[2]. According to his brother, Vernon was "the first one to can olives in tin", "invented the process of making all the olives look black and shiny, whether they were black and shiny when they started out or not", "a pioneer in teaching the rest of the country to eat ripe olives", and learned how to transport ripe olives in brine[3].
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.
References
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Kemper B. Campbell. In xxxx Los Angeles County Biographies, Western Edition Notables of the West v. 1. International New Service, New York, 1913. In 1904 his brother, Vernon Campbell, having discovered and perfected the process of canning ripe olives, he became interested with him in the establishment of the American Olive Company, which, under their directorship, became the largest olive packing concern in the world.".
- ↑ Kemper Campbell, Reminisces of Kemper Campbell. Interview conducted by Corinne L. Gibb, Regional Cultural History Project, 1954.