H.G. Prince - Revision history

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 | Fruitvale || || 2744 East 11th Street || Became [[Del Monte]] Plant #24<ref>[http://ohp.parks.ca.gov/pages/1067/files/CA_Alameda_HG%20Prince%20and%20Company.pdf H. G. Prince and Company Cannery].  National Register of Historic Places.  Earliest building dates to 1916.</ref>.

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 In 1926, H.G. Prince had 3,500 employees in Oakland for a total payroll of $1,300,000 payroll.  The 29th Street plant produced $3,500,000 of canned goods with 800 employees, with every can marked as coming from Oakland<ref>Mayor's Message: [http://www.sfgenealogy.com/oaklanddirectory/1927/1927_22.pdf Polk's 1927 Oakland City Directory].</ref>.
-Prince was sold to [[California Packing Corporation]] in 1928<ref> Andrew F. Smith, Pure Ketchup: A History of America's National Condiment, with Recipes. University of South Carolina Press.  "In 1926, CalPak acquired the H.G. Prince Co. and hence CalPak can trace its roots to both of California's first canners."</ref>.  Product canned in their plants continued to have the H. G. Prince name on the labels through at least the 1940's<ref>My father remembers that the Del Monte San Leandro was still canning some grades of fruit with H.G. Prince labels in the 1940's when he held summer jobs there.</ref>.
+Prince was sold to [[California Packing Corporation]] in 1928<ref> Andrew F. Smith, Pure Ketchup: A History of America's National Condiment, with Recipes. University of South Carolina Press.  "In 1926, CalPak acquired the H.G. Prince Co. and hence CalPak can trace its roots to both of California's first canners."</ref>.  Del Monte was interested in the company because of their patented machine for pitting cling peaches.  When attempts to come to an agreement on patents alone failed, Del Monte instead bought the company<ref>[http://ohp.parks.ca.gov/pages/1067/files/CA_Alameda_HG%20Prince%20and%20Company.pdf H. G. Prince and Company Cannery].  National Register of Historic Places.  H. G. Prince and Company History.</ref>..  H. G. Prince was intended to operate as a separate company, and kept a separate marketing and sales organization through 1956.  The terms of the sale requProduct canned in their plants continued to have the H. G. Prince name on the labels through at least the 1940's<ref>My father remembers that the Del Monte San Leandro was still canning some grades of fruit with H.G. Prince labels in the 1940's when he held summer jobs there.</ref>.
 H. G. Prince was an early adopter of trucks rather than the railroad to bring the crops to the cannery<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=va3mAAAAMAAJ&dq=%22berger%20and%20carter%22&pg=RA4-PA29#v=onepage&q=%22berger%20and%20carter%22&f=false June 1921 Canning Age]</ref>.  The cannery found that sending fruit by rail from meant stopping picking by 2:30 to get the crop to the railhead.  With the trucks, crews could be picking til almost 5:00.

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 | Fruitvale || 1921-1928 || 3000 East 9th Street ||  Became [[Del Monte]] Plant #37.
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 | San Leandro || 1922-1928 || Thornton Ave.<ref>According to Sanborn map</ref>. ||

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+| San Leandro || 1922-1928 || Thornton Ave.<ref>According to Sanborn map</ref>. ||
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	In 1926, H.G. Prince had 3,500 employees in Oakland for a total payroll of $1,300,000 payroll. The 29th Street plant produced $3,500,000 of canned goods with 800 employees, with every can marked as coming from Oakland<ref>Mayor's Message: [http://www.sfgenealogy.com/oaklanddirectory/1927/1927_22.pdf Polk's 1927 Oakland City Directory].</ref>.		In 1926, H.G. Prince had 3,500 employees in Oakland for a total payroll of $1,300,000 payroll. The 29th Street plant produced $3,500,000 of canned goods with 800 employees, with every can marked as coming from Oakland<ref>Mayor's Message: [http://www.sfgenealogy.com/oaklanddirectory/1927/1927_22.pdf Polk's 1927 Oakland City Directory].</ref>.
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	Prince was sold to [[California Packing Corporation]] in 1928<ref> Andrew F. Smith, Pure Ketchup: A History of America's National Condiment, with Recipes. University of South Carolina Press. "In 1926, CalPak acquired the H.G. Prince Co. and hence CalPak can trace its roots to both of California's first canners."</ref>. Product canned in their plants continued to have the H. G. Prince name on the labels through at least the 1940's<ref>My father remembers that the Del Monte San Leandro was still canning some grades of fruit with H.G. Prince labels in the 1940's when he held summer jobs there.</ref>.		Prince was sold to [[California Packing Corporation]] in 1928<ref> Andrew F. Smith, Pure Ketchup: A History of America's National Condiment, with Recipes. University of South Carolina Press. "In 1926, CalPak acquired the H.G. Prince Co. and hence CalPak can trace its roots to both of California's first canners."</ref>. Product canned in their plants continued to have the H. G. Prince name on the labels through at least the 1940's<ref>My father remembers that the Del Monte San Leandro was still canning some grades of fruit with H.G. Prince labels in the 1940's when he held summer jobs there.</ref>.

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	Henry G. Prince, the principal, had been a fruit salesman<ref>1900 United States Census</ref> and supposedly had learned the trade working for Crosse and Blackwell<ref>[http://collections.museumca.org/?q=collection-item/h726118q Panorama of employees caption], Oakland Museum.</ref>. By 1902, Prince was a director for the newly-incorporated [[Code-Portwood Canning Company]], taking ownership of the company in 1914. Henry Prince died in 1917<ref>Obituary: [http://books.google.com/books?id=CS0dAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA37&lpg=RA1-PA37&dq=henry+g.+prince+cannery+san+francisco&source=bl&ots=D1CrZKZ14h&sig=4eHF6VRdgRo1fz2MF-t2WMa2dpU&hl=en&sa=X&ei=pmHdUuiAEaeusATD2IHIDg&ved=0CCsQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=henry%20g.%20prince%20cannery%20san%20francisco&f=false Henry G. Prince], western Canner and Packer. The obituary lists his company as the successor to the Cole-Portwood Canning Company.</ref><ref>Among the Trade: [http://books.google.com/books?id=6vU9AQAAMAAJ&lpg=RA4-PA12&ots=LemoRhFZcn&dq=%22code-portwood%22%20%22h.g.%20prince%22&pg=RA4-PA12#v=onepage&q=%22code-portwood%22%20%22h.g.%20prince%22&f=false May 25, 1917 California Retail The May 25, 1917 California Grocer's Advocate]: "Henry G. Prince, head of the H. G. Prince Packing Co. of San Francisco, passed away at his home this week."</ref>.		Henry G. Prince, the principal, had been a fruit salesman<ref>1900 United States Census</ref> and supposedly had learned the trade working for Crosse and Blackwell<ref>[http://collections.museumca.org/?q=collection-item/h726118q Panorama of employees caption], Oakland Museum.</ref>. By 1902, Prince was a director for the newly-incorporated [[Code-Portwood Canning Company]], taking ownership of the company in 1914. Henry Prince died in 1917<ref>Obituary: [http://books.google.com/books?id=CS0dAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA37&lpg=RA1-PA37&dq=henry+g.+prince+cannery+san+francisco&source=bl&ots=D1CrZKZ14h&sig=4eHF6VRdgRo1fz2MF-t2WMa2dpU&hl=en&sa=X&ei=pmHdUuiAEaeusATD2IHIDg&ved=0CCsQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=henry%20g.%20prince%20cannery%20san%20francisco&f=false Henry G. Prince], western Canner and Packer. The obituary lists his company as the successor to the Cole-Portwood Canning Company.</ref><ref>Among the Trade: [http://books.google.com/books?id=6vU9AQAAMAAJ&lpg=RA4-PA12&ots=LemoRhFZcn&dq=%22code-portwood%22%20%22h.g.%20prince%22&pg=RA4-PA12#v=onepage&q=%22code-portwood%22%20%22h.g.%20prince%22&f=false May 25, 1917 California Retail The May 25, 1917 California Grocer's Advocate]: "Henry G. Prince, head of the H. G. Prince Packing Co. of San Francisco, passed away at his home this week."</ref>.

		+	In 1926, H.G. Prince had 3,500 employees in Oakland for a total payroll of $1,300,000 payroll. The 29th Street plant produced $3,500,000 of canned goods with 800 employees, with every can marked as coming from Oakland<ref>Mayor's Message: [http://www.sfgenealogy.com/oaklanddirectory/1927/1927_22.pdf Polk's 1927 Oakland City Directory].</ref>.
	Prince was sold to [[California Packing Corporation]] in 1928<ref> Andrew F. Smith, Pure Ketchup: A History of America's National Condiment, with Recipes. University of South Carolina Press. "In 1926, CalPak acquired the H.G. Prince Co. and hence CalPak can trace its roots to both of California's first canners."</ref>. Product canned in their plants continued to have the H. G. Prince name on the labels through at least the 1940's<ref>My father remembers that the Del Monte San Leandro was still canning some grades of fruit with H.G. Prince labels in the 1940's when he held summer jobs there.</ref>.		Prince was sold to [[California Packing Corporation]] in 1928<ref> Andrew F. Smith, Pure Ketchup: A History of America's National Condiment, with Recipes. University of South Carolina Press. "In 1926, CalPak acquired the H.G. Prince Co. and hence CalPak can trace its roots to both of California's first canners."</ref>. Product canned in their plants continued to have the H. G. Prince name on the labels through at least the 1940's<ref>My father remembers that the Del Monte San Leandro was still canning some grades of fruit with H.G. Prince labels in the 1940's when he held summer jobs there.</ref>.

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 Henry G. Prince, the principal, had been a fruit salesman<ref>1900 United States Census</ref> and supposedly had learned the trade working for Crosse and Blackwell<ref>[http://collections.museumca.org/?q=collection-item/h726118q Panorama of employees caption], Oakland Museum.</ref>.  By 1902, Prince was a director for the newly-incorporated [[Code-Portwood Canning Company]], taking ownership of the company in 1914.  Henry Prince died in 1917<ref>Obituary: [http://books.google.com/books?id=CS0dAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA37&lpg=RA1-PA37&dq=henry+g.+prince+cannery+san+francisco&source=bl&ots=D1CrZKZ14h&sig=4eHF6VRdgRo1fz2MF-t2WMa2dpU&hl=en&sa=X&ei=pmHdUuiAEaeusATD2IHIDg&ved=0CCsQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=henry%20g.%20prince%20cannery%20san%20francisco&f=false Henry G. Prince], western Canner and Packer.  The obituary lists his company as the successor to the Cole-Portwood Canning Company.</ref><ref>Among the Trade: [http://books.google.com/books?id=6vU9AQAAMAAJ&lpg=RA4-PA12&ots=LemoRhFZcn&dq=%22code-portwood%22%20%22h.g.%20prince%22&pg=RA4-PA12#v=onepage&q=%22code-portwood%22%20%22h.g.%20prince%22&f=false May 25, 1917 California Retail The May 25, 1917 California Grocer's Advocate]: "Henry G. Prince, head of the H. G. Prince Packing Co. of San Francisco, passed away at his home this week."</ref>.
-Prince was sold to [[California Packing Corporation]] between 1925 and 1930; product canned in their plants continued to have the H. G. Prince name on the labels through at least the 1940's<ref>My father remembers that the Del Monte San Leandro was still canning some grades of fruit with H.G. Prince labels in the 1940's when he held summer jobs there</ref>.
+Prince was sold to [[California Packing Corporation]] in 1928<ref> Andrew F. Smith, Pure Ketchup: A History of America's National Condiment, with Recipes. University of South Carolina Press.  "In 1926, CalPak acquired the H.G. Prince Co. and hence CalPak can trace its roots to both of California's first canners."</ref>.  Product canned in their plants continued to have the H. G. Prince name on the labels through at least the 1940's<ref>My father remembers that the Del Monte San Leandro was still canning some grades of fruit with H.G. Prince labels in the 1940's when he held summer jobs there.</ref>.
 H. G. Prince was an early adopter of trucks rather than the railroad to bring the crops to the cannery<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=va3mAAAAMAAJ&dq=%22berger%20and%20carter%22&pg=RA4-PA29#v=onepage&q=%22berger%20and%20carter%22&f=false June 1921 Canning Age]</ref>.  The cannery found that sending fruit by rail from meant stopping picking by 2:30 to get the crop to the railhead.  With the trucks, crews could be picking til almost 5:00.

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-'''H. G. Prince''' was a jelly maker and later canner in the San Francisco Bay Area, formed as a successor to the [[Code-Portwood Canning Company]] around 1914<ref>Canned Foods: [http://books.google.com/books?id=ZnpRAAAAYAAJ&lpg=PA13&ots=BpoIZoN7MK&dq=%22code-portwood%22%20%22h.g.%20prince%22&pg=PA13#v=onepage&q=%22code-portwood%22%20%22h.g.%20prince%22&f=false January 24, 1914]: "A contrivance has been invented by Arthur Duncan, manager of H. G. Prince & Co., successor to Code Portwood Canning Co....</ref><ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=2S0dAQAAMAAJ&dq=western%20canner%20and%20packer&pg=PA48#v=onepage&q=western%20canner%20and%20packer&f=false May June 1917 Western Canner and Packer]</ref>.  The company's origins began in San Francisco as a jelly maker in 1868, moving to Fruitvale after the Great San Francisco Earthquake in 1906<ref>[http://oaklandwiki.org/H._G._Prince_%26_Company H. G. Prince].  OaklandWiki.</ref>.  Cole Portwood was still listed as a separate company in 1912<ref>Canned Goods: [http://books.google.com/books?id=9AU9AAAAYAAJ&pg=RA4-PA21&lpg=RA4-PA21&dq=cole-portwood+canning+company&source=bl&ots=m6qIhEZ3RB&sig=qbUzEtMhSTIXPlzWz1jYuZxF8ew&hl=en&sa=X&ei=QWjdUpjKPOm0sQS11YGoDw&ved=0CDUQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=cole-portwood%20canning%20company&f=false Chamber of Commerce Journal], July 1912]</ref>. The company later expanded with a the purchase of the [[San Leandro Canning Company]] in May 1922<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=2S0dAQAAMAAJ&dq=western%20canner%20and%20packer&pg=PA48#v=onepage&q=western%20canner%20and%20packer&f=false May 1922 Western Canner and Packer]</ref>
+'''H. G. Prince''' was a canner in the San Francisco Bay Area, formed as a successor to the [[Code-Portwood Canning Company]] around 1914<ref>Canned Foods: [http://books.google.com/books?id=ZnpRAAAAYAAJ&lpg=PA13&ots=BpoIZoN7MK&dq=%22code-portwood%22%20%22h.g.%20prince%22&pg=PA13#v=onepage&q=%22code-portwood%22%20%22h.g.%20prince%22&f=false January 24, 1914]: "A contrivance has been invented by Arthur Duncan, manager of H. G. Prince & Co., successor to Code Portwood Canning Co....</ref><ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=2S0dAQAAMAAJ&dq=western%20canner%20and%20packer&pg=PA48#v=onepage&q=western%20canner%20and%20packer&f=false May June 1917 Western Canner and Packer]</ref>.  The company expanded with a the purchase of the [[San Leandro Canning Company]] in May 1922<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=2S0dAQAAMAAJ&dq=western%20canner%20and%20packer&pg=PA48#v=onepage&q=western%20canner%20and%20packer&f=false May 1922 Western Canner and Packer]</ref>
-Henry G. Prince, the principal, had been a fruit salesman<ref>1900 United States Census</ref> and supposedly had learned the trade working for Crosse and Blackwell<ref>[http://collections.museumca.org/?q=collection-item/h726118q Panorama of employees caption], Oakland Museum.</ref>.  Henry Prince died in 1917<ref>Obituary: [http://books.google.com/books?id=CS0dAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA37&lpg=RA1-PA37&dq=henry+g.+prince+cannery+san+francisco&source=bl&ots=D1CrZKZ14h&sig=4eHF6VRdgRo1fz2MF-t2WMa2dpU&hl=en&sa=X&ei=pmHdUuiAEaeusATD2IHIDg&ved=0CCsQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=henry%20g.%20prince%20cannery%20san%20francisco&f=false Henry G. Prince], western Canner and Packer.  The obituary lists his company as the successor to the Cole-Portwood Canning Company.</ref><ref>Among the Trade: [http://books.google.com/books?id=6vU9AQAAMAAJ&lpg=RA4-PA12&ots=LemoRhFZcn&dq=%22code-portwood%22%20%22h.g.%20prince%22&pg=RA4-PA12#v=onepage&q=%22code-portwood%22%20%22h.g.%20prince%22&f=false May 25, 1917 California Retail The May 25, 1917 California Grocer's Advocate]: "Henry G. Prince, head of the H. G. Prince Packing Co. of San Francisco, passed away at his home this week."</ref>.
+Henry G. Prince, the principal, had been a fruit salesman<ref>1900 United States Census</ref> and supposedly had learned the trade working for Crosse and Blackwell<ref>[http://collections.museumca.org/?q=collection-item/h726118q Panorama of employees caption], Oakland Museum.</ref>.  By 1902, Prince was a director for the newly-incorporated [[Code-Portwood Canning Company]], taking ownership of the company in 1914.  Henry Prince died in 1917<ref>Obituary: [http://books.google.com/books?id=CS0dAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA37&lpg=RA1-PA37&dq=henry+g.+prince+cannery+san+francisco&source=bl&ots=D1CrZKZ14h&sig=4eHF6VRdgRo1fz2MF-t2WMa2dpU&hl=en&sa=X&ei=pmHdUuiAEaeusATD2IHIDg&ved=0CCsQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=henry%20g.%20prince%20cannery%20san%20francisco&f=false Henry G. Prince], western Canner and Packer.  The obituary lists his company as the successor to the Cole-Portwood Canning Company.</ref><ref>Among the Trade: [http://books.google.com/books?id=6vU9AQAAMAAJ&lpg=RA4-PA12&ots=LemoRhFZcn&dq=%22code-portwood%22%20%22h.g.%20prince%22&pg=RA4-PA12#v=onepage&q=%22code-portwood%22%20%22h.g.%20prince%22&f=false May 25, 1917 California Retail The May 25, 1917 California Grocer's Advocate]: "Henry G. Prince, head of the H. G. Prince Packing Co. of San Francisco, passed away at his home this week."</ref>.
 Prince was sold to [[California Packing Corporation]] between 1925 and 1930; product canned in their plants continued to have the H. G. Prince name on the labels through at least the 1940's<ref>My father remembers that the Del Monte San Leandro was still canning some grades of fruit with H.G. Prince labels in the 1940's when he held summer jobs there</ref>.