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Mar 14, 1869 Kallstadt, Rhineland Palatinate, Germany Died on 27 May 1918 (aged 49)
German-born American businessman
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About Frederick Trump
- Frederick Trump (born Friedrich Trump; 14 March 1869 – 30 May 1918) was a German–American businessman and the patriarch of the Trump family.
- Born in Kallstadt, in the Kingdom of Bavaria (now in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany), he emigrated to the United States at the age of 16 and started working as a barber.
- Several years later, in 1891, he moved to the Northwest.
- He allegedly made his fortune by operating restaurants and brothels in Seattle and the mining town Monte Cristo, and brothels in the Klondike Gold Rush.
- He later returned to Kallstadt and married Elisabeth Christ.
- Bavarian authorities accused him of emigrating when he was too young to avoid fulfilling his military service, so he lost his Bavarian citizenship; he and his family returned to the United States.
- He became a U.S.
- citizen in 1892. He worked as a barber and hotel manager, and began to acquire real estate in Queens.
- He was the father of Frederick Christ Trump and John G.
- Trump, and grandfather of Donald Trump, the 45th president of the United States.
