Vernon Campbell
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Vernon Campbell was a canning expert and operator of canneries. Campbell is best known for inventing a process for canning ripe olives, which turned into the Lindsay Ripe Olive Company[1]. Campbell later was known as the public face of the California Cooperative Canneries, an Armour-backed company intended to help the meatpacker get into the fruit business. After a long battle, Armour lost on anti-trust grounds.
Campbell had also been the manager of a Tulare cannery, and was quoted in the July 26, 1913 California Fruit News.
- ↑ Lindsay Ripe Olive Company: In Kathleen Edwards Small & J. Larry Smith, History of Tulare County and Kings County, California, Vol. II, Chicago, The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1926., p. 448.