Harrison Woodhull Crosby

Harrison Woodhull Crosby

Harrison Woodhull Crosby of Jamesburg, New Jersey was the first to can tomatoes commercially in 1847.

He worked as the chief gardener at Lafayette College in Pennsylvania, and he commercialized the canned tomato.


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