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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.
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.
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.
The character of Claus Spreckels is perhaps exemplified by this story: In 1895, Spreckels began construction of the Spreckels Building in San Francisco, and when completed it was the tallest building in the city.
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
Claus Spreckels and The Oxnard Brothers: Pioneer Developers of California's Beet Sugar Industry, 1890- 1900 by THOMAS J. OSBORNE During the half century following the gold rush, California was trans-formed from a provincial mining and cattle frontier into an urbanized and industrialized state. Gold mining and cattle ranching accounted for
