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Adolph Bernard Spreckels (January 5, 1857 – June 28, 1924) was a California businessman who ran Spreckels Sugar Company and who donated the California Palace of the Legion of Honor art museum to the city of San Francisco in 1924.
Bunker Spreckels (born Adolph Bernard Spreckels III; August 15, 1949 – January 7, 1977) was an American surfer and an early pioneer of a surfboard design. He was the great-grandson of German -born sugar baron Claus Spreckels and was heir to the Spreckels Sugar fortune. [1]
At Rest at Cypress Lawn: Claus Spreckels (1828-1908) Claus Spreckels rose to immense power and wealth as the “Sugar King” through the course of building a monopoly of Hawaiian sugar production through a complex of plantations and transportation systems that also established William Matson’s shipping empire.
25 de feb. de 2018 · The sprawling story stars the tycoon brothers John D. and Adolph B. Spreckels, and the plot includes extramarital dalliances, a drug overdose, a shootout in a newspaper office, a landmark...
18 de ago. de 2016 · Adolph Spreckels had decided to kill the editor-in-chief of the San Francisco Chronicle. The year was 1884, and the 27-year-old Spreckels wanted revenge over an article the Chronicle had published about his family’s company, the Hawaiian Commercial and Sugar Company.
American surfer born Adolph Bernard Spreckels III in 1949, the great-grandson of German-born sugar baron Claus Spreckels. He was heir to the Spreckels sugar fortune, the stepson of Clark Gable and an early pioneer of the shortboard, a surfboard design which some people believe eventually led to the creation of the fish style of board.
5 de abr. de 2021 · April 5, 2021. The Germans Who Built America’s Sugar Industry. Not all the early American sugar barons were German. But most of them were. If you don’t know the story of sugar, you’re missing a fascinating tale.
