Samuel S. Haines

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Summary
Business

Fruit Dryer
Main Location

Santa Clara

Samuel S. Haines was a Santa Clara fruit dryer. The drying yard was at Poplar and Main (now a school and park); Mr. Haines himself lived at 552 Washington St. The company appeared in San Francisco Call 1900 list of delivery spots for California Cured Fruit Association.

Mr. Haines was quoted in the Great Robin Debate in the January 19, 1897 San Francisco Call, debating whether robins were a pest for orchards, or if they might actually eat the (supposedly bitter) ladybugs.

Locations

Location Years Address Details
Santa Clara 1891, 1900, 1911 Poplar near Main 1900 San Jose City Directory, 1911 San Jose City Directory, 1891 Sanborn map.

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