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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 · A biography of Claus Spreckels, a German-American immigrant who built and broke monopolies in sugar, transport, gas and electricity, real estate, newspapers, banks, and breweries in California. Learn about his family background, business development, personality, social status, and legacy.
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: The German-American “Sugar King” HF. 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.
Spreckels Sugar History. Claus Spreckels’ first introduction to the San Joaquin Valley was as a railroad builder. He built the San Francisco & San Joaquin Railroad, which ran from Fresno to Stockton on what is now the Santa Fe track. Spreckels built this railroad in order to give Southern Pacific a run for their money.
Claus Spreckels (i828-1908), a California sugar refiner, hurried to Hawaii in 1876 on the same ship that brought favorable news of the Reciprocity Treaty with the United States. In effect, the treaty gave Hawaiian sugar planters a price increase of two cents a pound and thus set off an economic boom in the island kingdom. Spreckels had origin
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. Beyond question he was a man of consequence in the islands. How much consequence? And for good or evil? These are the questions at the heart of this book. Spreckels became a card-playing crony ...
