SPRECKELS, CLAUS (18281908)

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SPRECKELS, CLAUS (18281908) , American capitalist, was born in Lanstedt, Hanover, in 1828. In 1846, to escape army service, he emigrated to the United States and became a grocer. In 1856 he removed from New

York

YORK
YORK (
HOUSE
- HOUSE
- HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in
  Gothic
  - GOTHIC
  it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)
OF)
YORK, EDMUND OF
LANGLEY
- LANGLEY, SAMUEL PIERPONT (1834-1906)
, DUKE OF (1341-1402)
YORK, EDWARD
YORK, FREDERICK
AUGUSTUS
- AUGUSTUS (a name 1 derived from Lat. augeo, increase, i.e. venerable, majestic, Gr. Ee0avr6s)
, DUKE OF (1763-1827)
YORK, RICHARD, DUKE

City to San Francisco, where he set up as a grocer, then a brewer, and later a sugar refiner. He gradually obtained

control

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)

of most of the sugar refineries on the Pacific

coast

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

; he was able to undersell his competitors because he bought his raw sugar in

Hawaii

HAWAII (HAWAIIAN or SANDWICH ISLANDS)

, where he purchased large plantations and contracted for the produce of others. He built a large refinery in

Hawaii

HAWAII (HAWAIIAN or SANDWICH ISLANDS)

, and his influence with the Hawaiian government was for a time paramount. By financing the Pacific Steamship Company he was able to reduce the 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 Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe first made a through line into San Francisco. Spreckels died in San Francisco on the 26th of December 1908. His eldest son, John Diedrich Spreckels (b. 18J3), became proprietor of the San Francisco Morning

Call

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

and succeeded to his father's steamship interests; and another son, Rudolph Spreckels (1873 ), became president of the First National Bank of San Francisco.

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