In the San Francisco Call on 8 May 1900:
Maria de Bolcoff, an old lady, who has a ten-acre ranch at Millbrae, swore to a complaint in Judge Fritz's court yesterday for the arrest of William Code on the charge of felony embezzlement.... Code, who is a son of the well-known canner, returned from Mexico in March last and three weeks ago ex-Supervisor Becker secured a warrant for his arrest for passing a worthless check upon him, but the matter was settled out of court.
Mr. Code, the elder, lived from 1828-1895. Was he literally well-known known for putting nonbotulized food into cans, or could "canner" here be a dated regionalism or term of art, or a typographical error?