From: Ed Eller <ed@kscommercial.com>
Sent: Friday, September 03, 2021 9:32 AM
To: Ed Eller <ed@kscommercial.com>
Subject:
Larry Ledom 11/28/2020-One more story about Seymour Packing Company. As mentioned in an earlier post, Seymours was founded in 1893 by Thomas Seymour at 524 N. Kansas Avenue, Topeka. His business was in wholesaling of shelled eggs and processed poultry. His business grew very rapidly and in 1901 he had constructed a building at Kansas Avenue and Crane Street measuring 50 feet by 150 feet, 3 stories high, with the frontage facing Kansas Avenue. Business continued to grow and so in 1904 the Company expanded the building by adding an additional structure on the north side of the current building measuring 50 feet by 150 feet with 4 stories in height. The year 1913 saw a new building being constructed at Crane and Quincy measuring 50 feet by 160 feet with 4 stories and an elevated enclosed walkway between the new building and the existing building at Kansas and Crane. The year 1922 saw the addition of an addional floor at Kansas and Crane, making it even in height to the added structure built in 1904. I was unable to find when the Company built the finale section to the building at Kansas and Crane but it must have been after 1922. Seymour Packing at one time was one of the worlds largest wholesalers of shelled eggs and poultry. Adding to those lines as they grew in business was frozen, liquid and dried eggs. During WWI and WWII the Company was one of many suppling food products to the Armed Services. Probably thousands of people through the years were employed by this Company. Just one of many companies that had their business in Topeka from the late 1800s into the 1900s.
Ed Eller
KS Commercial
785-608-6159
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