Meet the Trumps: How America's first family arrived in New York on a steamship from Germany in 1885 and built a sprawling empire in 4 generations
"He didn't know English. He couldn't possibly have known English. He didn't have anything like a high school diploma. He was literate, but in German," Gwenda Blair, the author behind the 2000 book "The Trumps: Three Generations That Built an Empire," told the Washington Post.
Friedrich Trump's family in Germany had modest means and ran a small vineyard. Once he landed in New York, he lived with his older sister on the Lower East Side in Manhattan.where he ran multiple businesses, like restaurants and hotels, across the region in former mining towns during the Gold Rush.An aerial view of the Salvator Church of Kallstadt, Germany, 11 January 2018., the Trump family for years claimed they were Swedish.
Jason Horowitz, the author of the NYT article, added that this is said to have been born of a desire to make good with their Jewish friends and customers., alluding to the time between World War II and the 1980s.whose son Henry J. Heinz is the man behind Heinz ketchup.Friedrich Trump wrote an obsequious letter, practically begging the Prince Regent for a residence permit.Elisabeth, who was 11 years her husband's junior, was five when Friedrich first left Germany.
Elisabeth moved to America with her husband after their wedding. By then, Friedrich was an American citizen. He shuttered his businesses on the West coast and
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