Aron Canning Company
| Business |
Cannery |
|---|---|
| Active |
1935 - 1956 |
| Brands |
Pacific Star, Contadina |
| Successors |
Tri-Valley Growers, Aron Cannery Company |
Aron Canning Company was a tomato canner run by Aron Hershel, a Hungarian immigrant. Hershel had been one of principals in the Contadina Canning Company in San Jose. He sold his interest to the majority-owning Morici family in 1935, and soon after set up his own plant south of Lodi[1]. The company was sold to Tri-Valley Canners in 1956 for $1,000,000[2]
The Riverbank plant appears to have eventually become Sun Garden-Gangi [3], perhaps because of connections with Antonio Gagni who had also been at Campbell. The sale of old railroad land next to the cannery (and relinquishment of government restrictions from transcontinental railroad land grant) mentioned sale of land to Hershel[4].
Locations
| Location | Years | Address | Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lodi | 1935-1956[5] | Eight Mile Road, west of Cherokee Lane |
Aron Hershel
Aron Hershel, was born in Targu Okna, Romania in 1884. He emigrated to the U.S. in 1904, and by 1913 was the proprietor of the German Cooperage Company at 117 Brazil St. in San Francisco in 1913. He, his brother Morris, and family lived at 38 Theta Ave. in Daly City in 1910. In 1925, he lived on Fremont St. in San Jose's Rose Garden neighborhood. In 1940, he lived in StocktonAncestry.com. Records from an appeals court case showed the Aron Cannery Company had been sold to Tri-Valley Canners in 1956 for $1,000,000[6].
Estate trustee formed in 1945. Picture of Mr Hershel in passport application. ( ancestry.com New cannery in 1935 had equipment built by the Canned Fruit Machinery Company of San Jose.
References
- ↑ Tomato Cannery Started By Aron Hershel South of Lodi: March 29, 1935 Lodi News. The article notes that Hershel had just "disposed of his interests in the San Jose concern"
- ↑ 168 CalApp2D, page 659. Records from appeal case showed the Aron Cannery Company had been sold to Tri Valley. ]
- ↑ November 9, 2009 Modesto Bee
- ↑ HR 1658.
- ↑ Tomato Cannery Started By Aron Hershel South of Lodi: March 29, 1935 Lodi News. The article notes that Hershel had just "disposed of his interests in the San Jose concern"
- ↑ [hhttp://ca.findacase.com/research/wfrmDocViewer.aspx/xq/fac.19590312_0041175.CA.htm/qx 168 CalApp2D Page 659]