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SPRECKELS, CLAUS (1828–1908)

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SPRECKELS, CLAUS (1828–1908)

SPRECKELS, CLAUS (1828–1908) , See also:

AMERICAN

American capitalist, was See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born in Lanstedt, See also:

Hanover, in 1828. In 1846, to See also:

ESCAPE (in mid. Eng. eschape or escape, from the O. Fr. eschapper, modern echapper, and escaper, low Lat. escapium, from ex, out of, and cappa, cape, cloak; cf. for the sense development the Gr. iichueoOat, literally to put off one's clothes, hence to sli

escape See also:

army service, he emigrated to the See also:

UNITED

United States and became a See also:

GROCER

grocer. In 1856 he removed from New See also:

York See also:

CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

City to See also:

SAN

San Francisco, where he set up as a grocer, then a See also:

BREWER, JOHN SHERREN (1810-1879)

brewer, and later a See also:

SUGAR

sugar refiner. He gradually obtained See also:

CONTROL (Fr. contrdle, older form contre rolle, from Med. Lat. contra-rotulus, a counter roll or copy of a document used to check the original; there is no instance in English of the use of " control " in this, its literal, meaning)

control of most of the sugar refineries on the Pacific See also:

COAST (from Lat. costa, a rib, side)

coast; he was able to undersell his competitors because he bought his raw sugar in See also:

HAWAII (HAWAIIAN or SANDWICH ISLANDS)

Hawaii, where he See also:

PURCHASED

purchased large plantations and contracted for the produce of others. He built a large refinery in Hawaii, and his See also:

INFLUENCE (Late Lat. influentia, from influere, to flow in)

influence with the Hawaiian See also:

government was for a See also:

time See also:

PARAMOUNT (Anglo-Fr. paramont, up above, par el mont, up or on top of the mountain)

paramount. By financing the Pacific Steamship See also:

COMPANY

Company he was able to reduce the See also:

FREIGHT, (pronounced like " weight "; derived from the Dutch vracht or vrecht, in Fr. fret, the Eng. " fraught " being the same word, and formerly used for the same thing, but now only as an adjective= " laden ")

freight charges on his sugar, and he also introduced various improvements in the methods of manufacture. It was he who built the railway from Salinas to San Francisco, by buying which the See also:

ATCHISON

Atchison, See also:

TOPEKA

Topeka & See also:

SANTA

Santa Fe first made a through See also:

LINE

line into San Francisco. Spreckels died in San Francisco on the 26th of See also:

DECEMBER (Lat. decent, ten)

December 1908. His eldest son, See also:

John Diedrich Spreckels (b. 18J3), became proprietor of the San Francisco See also:

MORNING

Morning See also:

CALL (from Anglo-Saxon ceallian, a common Teutonic word, cf. Dutch kallen, to talk or chatter)

Call and succeeded to his See also:

FATHER

father's steamship interests; and another son, See also:

Rudolph Spreckels (1873– ), became See also:

PRESIDENT (Fr. president, from Lat. praesidens, post-Augustan Lat. for praeses, director, ruler, from praesidere, to sit in front of, preside)

president of the First See also:

NATIONAL

National See also:

BANK

Bank of San Francisco.

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