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| primary_town = Los Gatos
 
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| primary_dates = 1885 - 1917
 
| primary_dates = 1885 - 1917
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| brands=Grayhound, San Joaquin<ref>Paul E. Vandor, [http://books.google.com/books?id=kBk1AQAAMAAJ&lpg=PA445&ots=QRcrhajv6t&dq=%22curtis%20fruit%22%20fresno&pg=PA445#v=onepage&q=%22curtis%20fruit%22%20fresno&f=false History of Fresno County], 1919.</ref>
 
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'''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<ref>Steven Stoll, [http://books.google.com/books?id=rGlkqqlPNZkC&pg=PA61&lpg=PA61&dq=%2522Curtis+Fruit%2522+Fresno&source=bl&ots=kW58e-OdP9&sig=10kD6biH65IGYdvXxyX63SJ8a_s&hl=en&ei=WoHKTsKbDJKPigLV8PjcDw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CCoQ6AEwAw%23v=onepage&q=%2522Curtis%2520Fruit%2522%2520Fresno&f=false The Fruits of Natural Advantage: Making the Industrial Countryside in California], University of California Press, 1998.</ref>.  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<ref>John Wesley North: [http://books.google.com/books?id=A4RPAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA612&lpg=PA612&dq=%2522Curtis+Fruit%2522+Fresno&source=bl&ots=R_cL1472-9&sig=92IEDEID7lDUGxlQXukv1iTvT60&hl=en&ei=WoHKTsKbDJKPigLV8PjcDw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CCcQ6AEwAg%23v=onepage&q=%2522Curtis%2520Fruit%2522%2520Fresno&f=false General Catalog of the Psi Upsilon Fraternity], Comentus Press, Bethlehem PA, 1888.</ref>.
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'''Curtis Packing''' was a northern California raisin 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<ref>Steven Stoll, [http://books.google.com/books?id=rGlkqqlPNZkC&pg=PA61&lpg=PA61&dq=%2522Curtis+Fruit%2522+Fresno&source=bl&ots=kW58e-OdP9&sig=10kD6biH65IGYdvXxyX63SJ8a_s&hl=en&ei=WoHKTsKbDJKPigLV8PjcDw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CCoQ6AEwAw%23v=onepage&q=%2522Curtis%2520Fruit%2522%2520Fresno&f=false The Fruits of Natural Advantage: Making the Industrial Countryside in California], University of California Press, 1998.</ref>.  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<ref>John Wesley North: [http://books.google.com/books?id=A4RPAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA612&lpg=PA612&dq=%2522Curtis+Fruit%2522+Fresno&source=bl&ots=R_cL1472-9&sig=92IEDEID7lDUGxlQXukv1iTvT60&hl=en&ei=WoHKTsKbDJKPigLV8PjcDw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CCcQ6AEwAg%23v=onepage&q=%2522Curtis%2520Fruit%2522%2520Fresno&f=false General Catalog of the Psi Upsilon Fraternity], Comentus Press, Bethlehem PA, 1888.</ref>.
 
 
  
 
The company was apparently unrelated to [[H.D. Curtis]] in Los Gatos.
 
The company was apparently unrelated to [[H.D. Curtis]] in Los Gatos.
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| Fresno || 1885<ref>James Hartigan Biography: [http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/biographies/h/hartigan-james.txt History of Fresno County, California], 1919, Historic Record Co.  Cites Curtis Fruit packing house in Fresno in 1885.</ref>  ||  ||
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| Fresno || 1885<ref>James Hartigan Biography: [http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/biographies/h/hartigan-james.txt History of Fresno County, California], 1919, Historic Record Co.  Cites Curtis Fruit packing house in Fresno in 1885.</ref>  ||  ||Packing house also claimed to be in Oleander, 23 miles southeast of Fresno<ref>Paul E. Vandor, [http://books.google.com/books?id=kBk1AQAAMAAJ&lpg=PA445&ots=QRcrhajv6t&dq=%22curtis%20fruit%22%20fresno&pg=PA445#v=onepage&q=%22curtis%20fruit%22%20fresno&f=false History of Fresno County], 1919.</ref>.
 
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Revision as of 02:04, 10 July 2014

Summary
Business

Dried Fruit Packer
Main Location

Los Gatos
Active

1885 - 1917
Brands

Grayhound, San Joaquin[1]

Curtis Packing was a northern California raisin 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[2]. 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[3].

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

Locations

  1. Paul E. Vandor, History of Fresno County, 1919.
  2. Steven Stoll, The Fruits of Natural Advantage: Making the Industrial Countryside in California, University of California Press, 1998.
  3. John Wesley North: General Catalog of the Psi Upsilon Fraternity, Comentus Press, Bethlehem PA, 1888.
  4. James Hartigan Biography: History of Fresno County, California, 1919, Historic Record Co. Cites Curtis Fruit packing house in Fresno in 1885.
  5. Paul E. Vandor, History of Fresno County, 1919.
Location Years Address Details
Fresno 1885[4] Packing house also claimed to be in Oleander, 23 miles southeast of Fresno[5].