DONAL TRUMP'S ANCESTORS
Frederick Trump (born Friedrich Trump, erroneously stated as Drumpf;[1][2] 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[3] in thenorthwestern United States and western Canada.[4]
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Trump was born in the Pfalz town of Kallstadt, where his family worked in a vineyard, to Christian Johannes Trump and Katherina Kober.[2] (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.[4] In 1891, he moved to Seattle, Washington, and established a "decadent" restaurant. [5] known as the "Poodle Dog" (identical in name and format to a restaurant in San Francisco).[6]It was around this time that Trump anglicized his name to Frederick and became a naturalized United States citizen.
In 1894, Trump operated a hotel in the mining town of Monte Cristo, Washington.[7] In July 1897 after hearing of the Klondike Gold Rush, he ran another restaurant for arriving prospectors, then in April 1898 moved to Bennett, British Columbia, running the Arctic Restaurant and Hotel, which offered fine dining and lodging in a sea of tents.[2][5] The Arctic was originally housed in a tent itself, but demand for the hotel and restaurant grew until it occupied a two-story building.[5][2] When describing the Arctic in a letter to theYukon Sun newspaper, Trump wrote: "For single men the Arctic has excellent accommodations as well as the best restaurant in Bennett, but I would not advise respectable women to go there to sleep as they are liable to hear that which would be repugnant to their feelings – and uttered, too, by the depraved of their own sex".[2] The Arctic House was one of the largest and most decadent restaurants in that region of the Klondike, offering fresh fruit and ptarmigan in addition to the staple of horsemeat.[5]
In 1900, the 150-mile-long railroad White Pass and Yukon Route between Bennett and Whitehorse,Yukon Territory of Canada was completed, allowing Trump to establish the White Horse Restaurant and Inn in Whitehorse, Yukon.[2][8]
In 1901, sensing the end of the gold rush and fearing a crackdown on prostitution, Trump sold his investments and used the proceeds to return to Germany.[4] In 1902, Trump returned to Kallstadt to marry his old neighbor Elizabeth Christ (October 10, 1880 – June 6, 1966).[9][10] German authorities determined that Trump had emigrated from Germany to avoid his tax and military-service obligations, and he and his pregnant wife were consequently expelled from the country.[11] He returned to the United States and worked as a barber and restaurant manager in Woodhaven, Queens, where his sons Fred and John were born in 1905 and 1907, respectively.
1927 news report: Donald Trump's dad arrested in KKK brawl with cops
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According to a New York Times article published in June 1927, a man with the name and address of Donald Trump's father was arraigned after Klan members attacked cops in Queens, N.Y.
In an article subtitled "Klan assails policeman", Fred Trump is named in among those taken in during a late May "battle" in which "1,000 Klansmen and 100 policemen staged a free-for-all." At least two officers were hurt during the event, after which the Klan's activities were denounced by the city's Police Commissioner, Joseph A. Warren.
"The Klan not only wore gowns, but had hoods over their faces almost completely hiding their identity," Warren was quoted as saying in the article, which goes on to identify seven men "arrested in the near-riot of the parade."
Named alongside Trump are John E Kapp and John Marcy (charged with felonious assault in the attack on Patrolman William O'Neill and Sgt. William Lockyear), Fred Lyons, Thomas Caroll, Thomas Erwin, and Harry J Free. They were arraigned in Jamaica, N.Y. All seven were represented by the same lawyers, according to the article.
The final entry on the list reads: "Fred Trump of 175-24 Devonshire Road, Jamaica, was discharged."
In 1927, Donald Trump's father would have been 21 years old, and not yet a well-known figure. Multiple sources report his residence at the time—and throughout his life—at the same address.
To be clear, this is not proof that Trump senior—who would later go on to become a millionaire real estate developer—was a member of the Ku Klux Klan or even in attendance at the event. Despite sharing lawyers with the other men, it's conceivable that he may have been an innocent bystander, falsely named, or otherwise the victim of mistaken identity during or following a chaotic event.
The name of Trump's grandfather, Friedrich Drumpf, was anglicized to Frederick Trump, but he died several years before the report.
A person answering calls at the N.Y.C. Police Department's Records Section said that arrest reports dating that far back were not available in any form. We've sent a formal request in writing and will update if and when we receive a response. We've also left a message with the Trump Campaign requesting a callback.
The article, published on June 1, 1927, describes police frustration at rowdy parades, the Klan's use of masks, and its growing presence in New York City. The Klan, originally founded in the 19th century, was reborn in 1915 as a violent supremacist organization associated with lynchings, white nationalism, and the distinctive white robes and hoods used by Klansmen to conceal their identity at parades and other events. At its mid-1920s peak, it had up to 6m members, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Fred Trump, who died in 1999, was a New York real estate developer and the father of mogul and presidential candidate Donald Trump. Born in the Bronx to German immigrants, Fred became a real estate developer in his teens; at about the time of his apparent arrest, he was constructing single-family houses in Queens, according to his obituary in the Times. At his death, his net worth was estimated at between $250m and $300m. A savvy businessman and real estate developer, his wealth enabled the junior Trump to start big.
If the man arrested at the riotous Klan parade was indeed Donald's father, it would not be his last tangle with the law over issues concerning minorities. A 1979 article, published by Village Voice, reported on a civil rights suit that alleged that the Trumps refused to rent to black home-seekers, and quotes a rental agent who said Fred Trump instructed him not to rent to blacks and to encourage existing black tenants to leave. The case was settled in a 1975 consent degree described as "one of the most far-reaching ever negotiated," but the Justice Department subsequently complained that continuing "racially discriminatory conduct by Trump agents has occurred with such frequency that it has created a substantial impediment to the full enjoyment of equal opportunity."
Donald Trump has made nativism a pillar of his campaign, describing Mexican immigrants as rapists and two Boston men who beat a homeless immigrant as "passionate" fans.
The events described in the Times' article took place 22 years before Donald Trump was even born, and he's not responsible for any youthful sins his father may have committed. But given the racially-charged tone of the younger Trump's campaign, it raises questions about the values he was taught by the man whose fortune he inherited.
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Rob Beschizza contributed to this report
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