E. B. Howard & Company

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Summary
Business Details
Primary Town San Jose
Primary Business Dried Fruit Packer

Summary

Locations

Location Years Address Details
San Jose 1900 Ryland St.

Next to Inderrieden. Details in article about fire at warehouse in "August 1, 1899 San Francisco Call":http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1982&dat=18990801&id=WyYiAAAAIBAJ&sjid=A6QFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1911,1035320

Details

Successor on site: Castle Brothers.

E.B. Howard was primarily a meat packer and an Armour agent.

Dried fruit packer. Collapsed in 1900 owing $300,000 to the Union Savings Bank, which also went bankrupt. 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, in"

February 2, 1899 New York Times Feb 4, 1899 San Francisco Call gives more details, and complains about the "plunger and gambler in fruit."