Curtis Packing
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| 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
- ↑ Paul E. Vandor, History of Fresno County, 1919.
- ↑ Steven Stoll, The Fruits of Natural Advantage: Making the Industrial Countryside in California, University of California Press, 1998.
- ↑ John Wesley North: General Catalog of the Psi Upsilon Fraternity, Comentus Press, Bethlehem PA, 1888.
- ↑ James Hartigan Biography: History of Fresno County, California, 1919, Historic Record Co. Cites Curtis Fruit packing house in Fresno in 1885.
- ↑ 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]. |