Williams-Brown Fruit Company

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Summary
Business

dried fruit packer
Main Location

San Francisco
Active

1894-

Williams-Brown Fruit Company was a San Francisco-based dried fruit packer or agent. The company was incorporated in February 1894 in San Francisco with $50,000 in capital stock[1]. Principals were Harry A. Williams, Charles G. Bonner, Donald Mackenzie, and W.H. Wright, all of San Francisco, and Nicholas G. Kittle of Fresno.

The company may actually have been the marketing agent or wholesaler for one or more dried fruit packers; an 1895 episode noted that workers had been solicited for the Bonner Packing raisin plant in Fresno, but pay was less than promised and lodgings were not available[2]. The article specifically refers to Williams-Brown as "this company's San Francisco agent."

Locations

Location Years Address Details
San Francisco 1895 116 California Street[3]
San Jose 1895 River St. at Ryland St. 1895 San Jose City Directory

References