Ginocchio-Jones Fruit Company
Organization
Dates
- Existence: 1899
Biography
The Ginocchio-Jones Fruit Company was a local fruit company that operated in the 19th and 20th centuries in Kansas City, Missouri. It was formed in the 1880s after R. Harry Jones, a produce merchant from St. Louis, joined the Ginocchio Brothers and Company as a managing partner. Its predecessor, the Ginocchio Brothers and Co. in St. Louis, had been wholesale dealers specializing in acquiring “foreign, California, and tropical fruits” for the local area and had been in business since the 1850s. The Ginocchio-Jones Fruit Company, incorporated in 1899, would later operate in Kansas City to both import fruit from afar as well as sell local specialties such as apples and pears.
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
Ginocchio-Jones Fruit Company Collection
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 601.3
Scope and Contents
The collection contains over 80 letters, telegrams, bills and invoices from 1915-1917—primarily between the Ginocchio-Jones Fruit Company, a local Missouri produce company, and the George F. Johnston Company, a grape producer in California. The records provide insight into the day-to-day business exchanges concerning the quality and distribution of produce over long distances. Notable are the telegrams and railway documents, which reveal how the development of certain communication and...
Dates:
1915 - 1917