http://vasonabranch.com/packing_houses/index.php?title=J._K._Armsby&feed=atom&action=historyJ. K. Armsby - Revision history2024-03-29T10:21:37ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.35.9http://vasonabranch.com/packing_houses/index.php?title=J._K._Armsby&diff=5349&oldid=prevRobert Bowdidge at 16:46, 28 November 20162016-11-28T16:46:31Z<p></p>
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</table>Robert Bowdidgehttp://vasonabranch.com/packing_houses/index.php?title=J._K._Armsby&diff=5005&oldid=prevRobert Bowdidge at 00:42, 12 March 20152015-03-12T00:42:41Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''J. K. Armsby''' was a wholesale grocer formed in Chicago in 1865 that eventually expanded to a dried fruit packer, canner, and major wholesale grocer on the west coast, and was one of the initial companies that formed the [[California Packing Corporation]]. As a wholesaler, Armsby both was a broker for producers (representing the [[California Fruit Canners Association]]) and a producer of dried and canned fruit for sale. <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">The </del>company <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">grew </del>the Central California Canneries, and ran their own dried fruit packing houses. The company apparently may have moved headquarters to San Francisco at some point. In 1912, the company was headquartered in New York, and had interests in [[Central California Canneries]] and the [[Pacific Seeded Raisin Company]]<ref>Armsby Co. of New York. In [http://books.google.com/books?id=gIU3AQAAMAAJ&lpg=PA2130&ots=yikf4KvsQX&dq=jk%20armsby%20armona&pg=PA2130#v=onepage&q=jk%20armsby%20armona&f=false Moody's Manual of Railroad and Corporate Securities], volume 2, part 2.</ref>.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''J. K. Armsby''' was a wholesale grocer formed in Chicago in 1865 that eventually expanded to a dried fruit packer, canner, and major wholesale grocer on the west coast, and was one of the initial companies that formed the [[California Packing Corporation]]. As a wholesaler, Armsby both was a broker for producers (representing the [[California Fruit Canners Association]]) and a producer of dried and canned fruit for sale. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">After the </ins>company <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">lost rights to distribute for </ins>the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">CFCA, they represented (and invested in) [[</ins>Central California Canneries<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]]</ins>, and ran their own dried fruit packing houses. The company apparently may have moved headquarters to San Francisco at some point. In 1912, the company was headquartered in New York, and had interests in [[Central California Canneries]] and the [[Pacific Seeded Raisin Company]]<ref>Armsby Co. of New York. In [http://books.google.com/books?id=gIU3AQAAMAAJ&lpg=PA2130&ots=yikf4KvsQX&dq=jk%20armsby%20armona&pg=PA2130#v=onepage&q=jk%20armsby%20armona&f=false Moody's Manual of Railroad and Corporate Securities], volume 2, part 2.</ref>.</div></td></tr>
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</table>Robert Bowdidgehttp://vasonabranch.com/packing_houses/index.php?title=J._K._Armsby&diff=4912&oldid=prevRobert Bowdidge at 08:15, 31 January 20152015-01-31T08:15:03Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Edmund Nutting Richmond]] was the manager of Armsby's Santa Clara valley operations until April 1916; about the time that Armsby was swallowed up by the [[California Packing Corporation]], Armsby decided to strike off on his own. Management of the packing house went to his brother, C. R. Richmond, and F. E. Whipple.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Edmund Nutting Richmond]] was the manager of Armsby's Santa Clara valley operations until April 1916; about the time that Armsby was swallowed up by the [[California Packing Corporation]], Armsby decided to strike off on his own<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"><ref>Popular San Jose Manager Leaves Armsby Company: [https://books.google.com/books?id=El9RAAAAYAAJ&lpg=PA11&ots=a3x5HqCnbR&dq=%22e.%20n.%20richmond%22%20edenvale&pg=PA11#v=onepage&q=%22e.%20n.%20richmond%22%20edenvale&f=false April 22, 1916 California Fruit News].</ref></ins>. Management of the packing house went to his brother, C. R. Richmond, and F. E. Whipple.</div></td></tr>
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</table>Robert Bowdidgehttp://vasonabranch.com/packing_houses/index.php?title=J._K._Armsby&diff=4911&oldid=prevRobert Bowdidge at 08:14, 31 January 20152015-01-31T08:14:28Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The company founders were J.K. "Jake" Armsby and George N. Armsby<ref>William Braznell, California's Finest: The History of the Del Monte Corporation and the Del Mote Brand. 1982, Del Monte Corporation</ref>, with Jake the salesman and George the financier. J.K. Armsby was one of the vice presidents of the National Canned Foods and Dried Fruit Brokers Assocation at one point.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The company founders were J.K. "Jake" Armsby and George N. Armsby<ref>William Braznell, California's Finest: The History of the Del Monte Corporation and the Del Mote Brand. 1982, Del Monte Corporation</ref>, with Jake the salesman and George the financier. J.K. Armsby was one of the vice presidents of the National Canned Foods and Dried Fruit Brokers Assocation at one point.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Armsby was one of the companies that merged into the [[California Packing Corporation]] 1916. Their headquarters building at 101 California Street in San Francisco became the new company's headquarters.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Armsby was one of the companies that merged into the [[California Packing Corporation]] <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">in </ins>1916. Their headquarters building at 101 California Street in San Francisco became the new company's headquarters.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Armsby's San Jose presence was first next to the train station on Ryland Street, but moved in 1900 to a location on Montgomery Street. The 1915 Sanborn map shows it at end of Montgomery next to Lenzen engine facility. The building is labelled as used for dried fruit packing, with fruit bins and boxes, and long siding. [[Castle Brothers]] is next door. A contemporary photo<ref>Robert Couchman, The Sunsweet Story, 1967, Sunsweet Growers, p. 31</ref> shows a three story packing house in corrugated iron. The [http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cdnc/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&cl=search&d=PRP19020823.2.28.1&srpos=19&e=-------en--20--1--txt-IN-%22a+%26+C+ham%22----# August 23, 1902 San Francisco Call] noted an addition to the warehouse.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Armsby's San Jose presence was first next to the train station on Ryland Street, but moved in 1900 to a location on Montgomery Street. The 1915 Sanborn map shows it at end of Montgomery next to Lenzen engine facility. The building is labelled as used for dried fruit packing, with fruit bins and boxes, and long siding. [[Castle Brothers]] is next door. A contemporary photo<ref>Robert Couchman, The Sunsweet Story, 1967, Sunsweet Growers, p. 31</ref> shows a three story packing house in corrugated iron. The [http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cdnc/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&cl=search&d=PRP19020823.2.28.1&srpos=19&e=-------en--20--1--txt-IN-%22a+%26+C+ham%22----# August 23, 1902 San Francisco Call] noted an addition to the warehouse.</div></td></tr>
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</table>Robert Bowdidgehttp://vasonabranch.com/packing_houses/index.php?title=J._K._Armsby&diff=4909&oldid=prevRobert Bowdidge at 08:11, 31 January 20152015-01-31T08:11:58Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Armsby was one of the companies that merged into the [[California Packing Corporation]] 1916. Their headquarters building at 101 California Street in San Francisco became the new company's headquarters.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Armsby was one of the companies that merged into the [[California Packing Corporation]] 1916. Their headquarters building at 101 California Street in San Francisco became the new company's headquarters.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Armsby's San Jose presence was first next to the train station on Ryland Street, but moved in 1900 to a location on Montgomery Street. The 1915 Sanborn map shows it at end of Montgomery next to Lenzen engine facility. The building is labelled as used for dried fruit packing, with fruit bins and boxes, and long siding. [[Castle Brothers]] is next door. A contemporary photo<ref>Robert Couchman, The Sunsweet Story, 1967, Sunsweet Growers, p. 31</ref> shows a three story packing house in corrugated iron. The [http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cdnc/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&cl=search&d=PRP19020823.2.28.1&srpos=19&e=-------en--20--1--txt-IN-%22a+%26+C+ham%22----# August 23, 1902 San Francisco Call] noted an addition to the warehouse.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Armsby's San Jose presence was first next to the train station on Ryland Street, but moved in 1900 to a location on Montgomery Street. The 1915 Sanborn map shows it at end of Montgomery next to Lenzen engine facility. The building is labelled as used for dried fruit packing, with fruit bins and boxes, and long siding. [[Castle Brothers]] is next door. A contemporary photo<ref>Robert Couchman, The Sunsweet Story, 1967, Sunsweet Growers, p. 31</ref> shows a three story packing house in corrugated iron. The [http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cdnc/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&cl=search&d=PRP19020823.2.28.1&srpos=19&e=-------en--20--1--txt-IN-%22a+%26+C+ham%22----# August 23, 1902 San Francisco Call] noted an addition to the warehouse.</div></td></tr>
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</table>Robert Bowdidgehttp://vasonabranch.com/packing_houses/index.php?title=J._K._Armsby&diff=4048&oldid=prevRobert Bowdidge at 17:20, 1 September 20142014-09-01T17:20:32Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''J. K. Armsby''' was a wholesale grocer formed in Chicago in 1865 that eventually expanded to a dried fruit packer, canner, and major wholesale grocer on the west coast, and was one of the initial companies that formed the [[California Packing Corporation]]. As a wholesaler, Armsby both was a broker for producers (representing the [[California Fruit Canners Association]]) and a producer of dried and canned fruit for sale. The company grew the Central California Canneries, and ran their own dried fruit packing houses. The company apparently may have moved headquarters to San Francisco at some point.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''J. K. Armsby''' was a wholesale grocer formed in Chicago in 1865 that eventually expanded to a dried fruit packer, canner, and major wholesale grocer on the west coast, and was one of the initial companies that formed the [[California Packing Corporation]]. As a wholesaler, Armsby both was a broker for producers (representing the [[California Fruit Canners Association]]) and a producer of dried and canned fruit for sale. The company grew the Central California Canneries, and ran their own dried fruit packing houses. The company apparently may have moved headquarters to San Francisco at some point<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">. In 1912, the company was headquartered in New York, and had interests in [[Central California Canneries]] and the [[Pacific Seeded Raisin Company]]<ref>Armsby Co. of New York. In [http://books.google.com/books?id=gIU3AQAAMAAJ&lpg=PA2130&ots=yikf4KvsQX&dq=jk%20armsby%20armona&pg=PA2130#v=onepage&q=jk%20armsby%20armona&f=false Moody's Manual of Railroad and Corporate Securities], volume 2, part 2.</ref></ins>.</div></td></tr>
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