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'''E. B. Howard & Company''' was a meat and dried fruit packer before 1900.  The company wash an agent for the Armour meat packing company.   
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'''E. B. Howard & Company''' was a dried fruit broker before 1900, with ties to the Armour meat-backing company.   
Howard had a warehouse on Ryland Street in San Jose.  The San Francisco Call complained about them as a "plunger and gambler in fruit<ref>February 4, 1899 San Francisco Call.</ref>.
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The San Francisco Call complained about them as a "plunger and gambler in fruit<ref>February 4, 1899 San Francisco Call.</ref>.
  
The company collapsed in 1900 owing $300,000 to the Union Savings Bank, which also went bankrupt.  The collapse was mentioned in "The Sunsweet Story" as one of the formative episodes for Judge Welch and the Welch-Coykendall fight.  (Listed as $100,000 owed to the bank, with outstanding checks to other banks and Howard saying he owed $250,000 total.) "Only partially secured by warehouse receipts"<ref>[http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F50915F9345911738DDDAB0894DA405B8985F0D3 February 2, 1899 New York Times] </ref>.  The San Jose warehouse was later occupied by [[Castle Brothers]].
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The company collapsed in 1900 owing $300,000 to the Union Savings Bank, which also went bankrupt.  The collapse was mentioned in "The Sunsweet Story" as one of the formative episodes for Judge Welch and the Welch-Coykendall fight.  (Listed as $100,000 owed to the bank, with outstanding checks to other banks and Howard saying he owed $250,000 total.) "Only partially secured by warehouse receipts"<ref>San Jose Bank Failure: Liberal Advances to a Merchant The Cause of the Trouble: [http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F50915F9345911738DDDAB0894DA405B8985F0D3 February 2, 1899 New York Times] </ref>.  The San Jose warehouse was later occupied by [[Castle Brothers]].
 
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Revision as of 01:47, 18 December 2013

Summary
Business

Dried Fruit Packer
Main Location

San Jose

E. B. Howard & Company was a dried fruit broker before 1900, with ties to the Armour meat-backing company. The San Francisco Call complained about them as a "plunger and gambler in fruit[1].

The company collapsed in 1900 owing $300,000 to the Union Savings Bank, which also went bankrupt. The collapse was mentioned in "The Sunsweet Story" as one of the formative episodes for Judge Welch and the Welch-Coykendall fight. (Listed as $100,000 owed to the bank, with outstanding checks to other banks and Howard saying he owed $250,000 total.) "Only partially secured by warehouse receipts"[2]. The San Jose warehouse was later occupied by Castle Brothers.

Locations

Location Years Address Details
San Jose 1900 Ryland St.

Next to Inderrieden. Fire in 1899[3].

References

  1. February 4, 1899 San Francisco Call.
  2. San Jose Bank Failure: Liberal Advances to a Merchant The Cause of the Trouble: February 2, 1899 New York Times
  3. Fire at warehouse: August 1, 1899 San Francisco Call.