Frederick Trump

Frederick Trump (March 14, 1869 – March 30, 1918) was a German-born American businessman. He was the father of Fred Trump and John G. Trump and grandfather of businessman and 2016 presidential candidate Donald Trump. Trump made his first fortune operating boom-town hotels, restaurants and brothels in the northwestern United States and western Canada.

Early life

Trump was born in the Pfalz town of Kallstadt, where his family worked in a vineyard, to Christian Johannes Trump and Katherina Kober. (Trump's son Fred later denied his German heritage, instead claiming his father was a Swede from Karlstad.) Trump emigrated to New York City in 1885 and worked as a barber for six years. In 1891, he moved to Seattle, Washington, and established a "decadent" restaurant known as the "Poodle Dog" (identical in name and format to a restaurant in San Francisco). It was around this time that Trump anglicized his name to Frederick and became a naturalized United States citizen.

Career

Frederick

Frederick may refer to:

People

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Anhalt-Harzgerode

Austria

Baden

Bohemia

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Brandenburg/Prussia

Frederick (song)

"Frederick" is a rock song written by Patti Smith, and released as lead single from Patti Smith Group 1979 album Wave. The song is dedicated to Fred "Sonic" Smith, guitar player of the Detroit band MC5 and Smith's future husband.

The melody of "Frederick" is a homage to Bruce Springsteen's live arrangement of "Prove It All Night" from the then-recent Darkness Tour of 1978.

Covers

The song was covered by Sandie Shaw in 1986. The B-side was entitled "Go Johnny Go", and had been written by Shaw as a tribute to Johnny Marr.

Charts

Patti Smith Group

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Frederick (horse)

Frederick (1826–1837) also known as "Frederic", was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. In a career that lasted from June 1829 to August 1831 he ran five times and won once. His only win came on his racecourse debut, when he recorded an upset victory in the 1829 Derby ridden by his sixty-year-old trainer John Forth. Frederick failed to reproduce his Derby-winning form, finishing no better than third in four subsequent races.

Background

Frederick was a bay horse bred by his owner, William Gratwicke of Ham Manor, near Angmering in Sussex. He was the one of several good horses produced by Gratwicke's unnamed Phantom mare, including The Margravine who in turn produced the 1845 Derby winner The Merry Monarch. The Phantom mare (sometimes referred to as Frederica) had been Gratwicke's first thoroughbred– he had bought her as a hunter– and Frederick was the second horse he bred from her. Frederick's sire Little John had little success as a stallion of racehorses being primarily known as a sire of hunters. He was owned by Gratwicke's neighbour Lord Egremont.