Frederick Trump
Frederick Trump | |
|---|---|
Trump in 1918 | |
| Born | Friedrich Trump March 14, 1869 Kallstadt, Kingdom of Bavaria |
| Died | May 30, 1918 (aged 49) New York City, U.S. |
| Burial place | All Faiths Cemetery, Queens, New York City[1] |
| Citizenship |
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| Occupation | Businessman |
| Spouse |
Elizabeth Christ Trump
(m. 1902) |
| Children | 3, including Fred and John |
| Family | Trump family |
Frederick Trump (born Friedrich Trump; German: [fʁi:dʁɪç tʁʊmp]; March 14, 1869 – May 30, 1918) was a German-American businessman. He was the patriarch of the Trump family and the paternal grandfather of the 45th and 47th U.S. president, Donald Trump.
Born and raised in Kallstadt, Germany, in what was then the Kingdom of Bavaria, Trump immigrated to the United States in 1885. In 1891, he began speculating in real estate in Seattle. During the Klondike Gold Rush, he moved to the Yukon and made his fortune by operating a restaurant and a brothel for miners in Whitehorse.[2][3]
In 1901, Trump returned to Kallstadt and married Elisabeth Christ. As he had failed to complete mandatory military service and notify the authorities of his departure in 1885, the Bavarian government stripped him of his citizenship in 1905 and ordered him to leave. Consequently, he returned to the United States with his family.
Trump worked as a barber and manager of a restaurant-hotel and was beginning to acquire real estate in Queens when he died in the 1918 flu pandemic.
- ^ "Queens Cemetery Workers Say They've Lost Their Benefits Amid State Probe". www.ny1.com.
- ^ Panetta, Alexander (September 19, 2015). "Donald Trump's grandfather ran Canadian brothel during gold rush". CBC News. Retrieved December 10, 2015.
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