E. E. Thomas Fruit Company - Revision history

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{{Infobox
| title = Summary
| header1 = Business Details
| label2 = Primary Town
| data2 = San Jose
| label3 = Primary Business
| data3 = Dried Fruit Packer
| label5 = Dates
| data5 = -1899
}}
==Summary==

==Locations==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Location !! Years !! Address !! Details
|-
| San Jose || 1893, 1896 || Race Street near San Carlos Street ||
|-
|}
==Photos==
[http://content.scu.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/svhocdm&CISOPTR=2371&CISOBOX=1&REC=2 E. E. Thomas Drying Yard, San Jose History San Jose / Silicon Valley History Online]

==Details==

[http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=%22e.%20e.%20thomas%22%20fruit%20dryer&source=web&cd=14&ved=0CFwQFjADOAo&url=http%3A%2F%2Fcdnc.ucr.edu%2Fcdnc%2Fcgi-bin%2Fimageserver%2Fimageserver.pl%3Foid%3DPRP18970821.1.4%26key%3D%26getpdf%3Dtrue&ei=cx21T9_HCYnliALOlLGXAg&usg=AFQjCNGpWB0b4xbw_L-UP4M15HSDInMRWw&sig2=SqJl6Fbhh2KsA-yzRCwvwQ Pacific Rural Press, Aug 21 1897]
: E. E. Thomas building new $5000 fruit dryer after last one burned. 500 tons of apricots dried this year.

Shipped 650 carloads of dried fruit in 1893-4 according to Sunsweet Story.

Killed himself in 1899, supposedly because of financial pressures from bank failure.
[http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=%22e.%20e.%20thomas%22%20fruit%20dryer&source=web&cd=6&ved=0CGgQFjAF&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchroniclingamerica.loc.gov%2Flccn%2Fsn85066387%2F1899-02-08%2Fed-1%2Fseq-11%2F&ei=9Ru1T9bCCZTSiALe9Jz0AQ&usg=AFQjCNHBicUlFaqhEmz9DQaGjfwwM8w8Lw&sig2=r7gCV60RMAPkgcvXWKdqmA San Francisco Call, Feb. 8 1899]
. (Any relation to R.K. Thomas who was in business with Hyde?)

Patented fruit spreading machine, patent 482284.

Fruit packer
[[Category:San Jose]]
[[Category:Dried Fruit Packer]]

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-'''E. E. Thomas Fruit Company'''
 {{Infobox_Industry
 | primary_business = Dried Fruit Packer
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-E. E. Thomas Fruit Company was an early San Jose-based dried fruit packer run by [[Edward E. Thomas]] and William Cameron as Vice President<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=B6pKAQAAIAAJ&lpg=PA455&ots=mYCMRE3zU6&dq=%22E.%20E.%20Thomas%22%20San%20Jose&pg=PA455#v=onepage&q=%22E.%20E.%20Thomas%22%20San%20Jose&f=false 1896 San Jose City Directory]</ref>with [[E. B. Howard]] handling the marketing and Thomas handling the drying, dipping, and shipping of fruit. Thomas was the son of a local orchardist, in his thirties, and living at Race and Luther Streets in San Jose.  The company shipped 650 carloads of dried fruit in the 1893-1894 season<ref>The Sunsweet Story</ref>, and dried 500 tons of fruit in 1896-1897.
+'''E. E. Thomas Fruit Company''' was an early San Jose-based dried fruit packer run by [[Edward E. Thomas]] and William Cameron as Vice President<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=B6pKAQAAIAAJ&lpg=PA455&ots=mYCMRE3zU6&dq=%22E.%20E.%20Thomas%22%20San%20Jose&pg=PA455#v=onepage&q=%22E.%20E.%20Thomas%22%20San%20Jose&f=false 1896 San Jose City Directory]</ref>with [[E. B. Howard]] handling the marketing and Thomas handling the drying, dipping, and shipping of fruit. Thomas was the son of a local orchardist, in his thirties, and living at Race and Luther Streets in San Jose.  The company shipped 650 carloads of dried fruit in the 1893-1894 season<ref>The Sunsweet Story</ref>, and dried 500 tons of fruit in 1896-1897.
 The original building burned down in 1897; a new $5,000 plant would replace it<ref>
 [http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=%22e.%20e.%20thomas%22%20fruit%20dryer&source=web&cd=14&ved=0CFwQFjADOAo&url=http%3A%2F%2Fcdnc.ucr.edu%2Fcdnc%2Fcgi-bin%2Fimageserver%2Fimageserver.pl%3Foid%3DPRP18970821.1.4%26key%3D%26getpdf%3Dtrue&ei=cx21T9_HCYnliALOlLGXAg&usg=AFQjCNGpWB0b4xbw_L-UP4M15HSDInMRWw&sig2=SqJl6Fbhh2KsA-yzRCwvwQ Pacific Rural Press, Aug 21 1897]</ref>.  The company also patented a fruit spreading machine, patent 482284.

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-E. E. Thomas Fruit Company was an early San Jose-based dried fruit packer run by [[Edward E. Thomas]] and William Cameron as Vice President<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=B6pKAQAAIAAJ&lpg=PA455&ots=mYCMRE3zU6&dq=%22E.%20E.%20Thomas%22%20San%20Jose&pg=PA455#v=onepage&q=%22E.%20E.%20Thomas%22%20San%20Jose&f=false 1896 San Jose City Directory]</ref>with an E. B. Howard handling the marketing and Thomas handling the drying, dipping, and shipping of fruit. Thomas was the son of a local orchardist, in his thirties, and living at Race and Luther Streets in San Jose.  The company shipped 650 carloads of dried fruit in the 1893-1894 season<ref>The Sunsweet Story</ref>, and dried 500 tons of fruit in 1896-1897.
+E. E. Thomas Fruit Company was an early San Jose-based dried fruit packer run by [[Edward E. Thomas]] and William Cameron as Vice President<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=B6pKAQAAIAAJ&lpg=PA455&ots=mYCMRE3zU6&dq=%22E.%20E.%20Thomas%22%20San%20Jose&pg=PA455#v=onepage&q=%22E.%20E.%20Thomas%22%20San%20Jose&f=false 1896 San Jose City Directory]</ref>with [[E. B. Howard]] handling the marketing and Thomas handling the drying, dipping, and shipping of fruit. Thomas was the son of a local orchardist, in his thirties, and living at Race and Luther Streets in San Jose.  The company shipped 650 carloads of dried fruit in the 1893-1894 season<ref>The Sunsweet Story</ref>, and dried 500 tons of fruit in 1896-1897.
 The original building burned down in 1897; a new $5,000 plant would replace it<ref>
 [http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=%22e.%20e.%20thomas%22%20fruit%20dryer&source=web&cd=14&ved=0CFwQFjADOAo&url=http%3A%2F%2Fcdnc.ucr.edu%2Fcdnc%2Fcgi-bin%2Fimageserver%2Fimageserver.pl%3Foid%3DPRP18970821.1.4%26key%3D%26getpdf%3Dtrue&ei=cx21T9_HCYnliALOlLGXAg&usg=AFQjCNGpWB0b4xbw_L-UP4M15HSDInMRWw&sig2=SqJl6Fbhh2KsA-yzRCwvwQ Pacific Rural Press, Aug 21 1897]</ref>.  The company also patented a fruit spreading machine, patent 482284.

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 ==Locations==
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 ! Location !! Years !! Address !! Details
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-| San Jose || 1893, 1896 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Race%20Street%20near%20San%20Carlos%20Street,San%20Jose Race Street near San Carlos Street] ||
+| San Jose || 1893, 1896 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Race%20Street%20near%20San%20Carlos%20Street,San%20Jose Race Street near San Carlos Street] || Northeast corner<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=B6pKAQAAIAAJ&lpg=PA455&ots=mYCMRE3zU6&dq=%22E.%20E.%20Thomas%22%20San%20Jose&pg=PA455#v=onepage&q=%22E.%20E.%20Thomas%22%20San%20Jose&f=false 1896 San Jose City Directory]</ref>
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 [http://content.scu.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/svhocdm&CISOPTR=2371&CISOBOX=1&REC=2 E. E. Thomas Drying Yard, San Jose  History San Jose / Silicon Valley History Online]
-==Details==
+==References==
+<references/>
 [[Category:San Jose]]
 [[Category:Dried Fruit Packer]]