Credited with being the first person to can tomatoes. He was the first to can tomatoes commercially in 1847. He worked as the Chief Gardener (also as a College Steward and an extra hand in the cafeteria) at Lafayette College in Pennsylvania, where he commercialized the canned tomato.
Harrison Crosby, sold his first stock for 50 cents a can. This was in 1848. He sent samples of his goods to the President and Queen Victoria, who then for the first time were enabled to have tomatoes upon their tables In the winter, and both sent thankful letters along with orders for more canned tomatoes.
A tablet honoring Crosby was placed at the entrance of Gayley Hall in 1936. Dr. Eugene C. Bingham, Head of the Chemistry Department, presided at the ceremony. (Gayley Hall was built in 1902 with funding provided by trustee James Gayley, Class of 1876. It was an instruction building for the chemistry and metallurgy departments. It was torn down in the early 1960’s to make way for Skillman Library.) What happened to the tablet???
He was also a general postmaster in Jamesburg NJ for 8 years.
Harrison Crosby, sold his first stock for 50 cents a can. This was in 1848. He sent samples of his goods to the President and Queen Victoria, who then for the first time were enabled to have tomatoes upon their tables In the winter, and both sent thankful letters along with orders for more canned tomatoes.
A tablet honoring Crosby was placed at the entrance of Gayley Hall in 1936. Dr. Eugene C. Bingham, Head of the Chemistry Department, presided at the ceremony. (Gayley Hall was built in 1902 with funding provided by trustee James Gayley, Class of 1876. It was an instruction building for the chemistry and metallurgy departments. It was torn down in the early 1960’s to make way for Skillman Library.) What happened to the tablet???
He was also a general postmaster in Jamesburg NJ for 8 years.
Credited with being the first person to can tomatoes. He was the first to can tomatoes commercially in 1847. He worked as the Chief Gardener (also as a College Steward and an extra hand in the cafeteria) at Lafayette College in Pennsylvania, where he commercialized the canned tomato.
Harrison Crosby, sold his first stock for 50 cents a can. This was in 1848. He sent samples of his goods to the President and Queen Victoria, who then for the first time were enabled to have tomatoes upon their tables In the winter, and both sent thankful letters along with orders for more canned tomatoes.
A tablet honoring Crosby was placed at the entrance of Gayley Hall in 1936. Dr. Eugene C. Bingham, Head of the Chemistry Department, presided at the ceremony. (Gayley Hall was built in 1902 with funding provided by trustee James Gayley, Class of 1876. It was an instruction building for the chemistry and metallurgy departments. It was torn down in the early 1960’s to make way for Skillman Library.) What happened to the tablet???
He was also a general postmaster in Jamesburg NJ for 8 years.
Harrison Crosby, sold his first stock for 50 cents a can. This was in 1848. He sent samples of his goods to the President and Queen Victoria, who then for the first time were enabled to have tomatoes upon their tables In the winter, and both sent thankful letters along with orders for more canned tomatoes.
A tablet honoring Crosby was placed at the entrance of Gayley Hall in 1936. Dr. Eugene C. Bingham, Head of the Chemistry Department, presided at the ceremony. (Gayley Hall was built in 1902 with funding provided by trustee James Gayley, Class of 1876. It was an instruction building for the chemistry and metallurgy departments. It was torn down in the early 1960’s to make way for Skillman Library.) What happened to the tablet???
He was also a general postmaster in Jamesburg NJ for 8 years.
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