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Adolph Claus J. Spreckels (July 9, 1828 – December 26, 1908) (his last name has also been misspelled as Spreckles) was a major industrialist in Hawai'i during the kingdom, republican, and territorial periods of the islands' history.
7 de jun. de 2011 · Claus Spreckels (born July 9, 1828 in Lamstedt, Kingdom of Hanover; died: December 26, 1908 in San Francisco, California) was perhaps the most successful German-American immigrant entrepreneur of the late-nineteenth century.
Claus Spreckels (1828–1908) was perhaps the most successful German-American immigrant entrepreneur of the late nineteenth century. The career of the ―sugar king‖ of California, Hawaii, and the American West consisted of building and breaking monopolies in sugar, transport, gas, electricity, real estate, newspapers, banks, and breweries.
5 de abr. de 2021 · Claus Spreckels Builds a Business Empire in Northern California. Reinvesting the capital he had created with his retail and wholesale businesses, Spreckels’ industrial career began with something typically German: beer brewing.
Spreckels founded the Pajaro Valley Railroad to transport beets, and extended the line to Moss Landing. Though the largest beet sugar factory in the United States, it produced raw sugar, which was then refined in San Francisco.
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 may. de 2021 · Claus Spreckels, who built a sugar empire in California and in the Hawaiian Kingdom, died over half a century ago. Much of what has been written about his Hawaiian career makes him out to be a scoundrel.
