Cozzens Fruit Company

Summary

Business	Fruit drying.
Main Location	San Jose

W. W. Cozzens Dryer pen sketch

Willow Glen orchardist and fruit dryer. Cozzens had a drying yard behind his home near Minnesota and Lincoln Avenues; the packing house and shipping point for the company was on Ryland Street throughout the 1890's, and appeared to move to Santa Clara in 1900. "Pen Pictures from the Garden of the World" says that he'd been drying fruit since 1879 near Minnesota and Lincoln.

The business's San Jose location shows up on an 1891 Sanborn map as a grain warehouse on Ryland Street at Santa Teresa Street, listed as "hay warehouse". An 1898 city directory gives the address as Ryland Street at River Street.

Locations

Location	Years	Address	Details
San Jose	1890, 1898	Ryland Street at River Street	Perhaps future Rosenberg Brothers plant which burned in 1906?
Santa Clara	1900		San Francisco Call list of California Cured Fruit Growers dropoff site.