Fred Trump

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name = Fred Trump


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birth_place = Woodhaven, Queens, New York
death_date = death date and age|1999|6|25|1905|10|11|mf=y
death_place = New Hyde Park, New York
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occupation = real estate developer
spouse = Mary MacLeod Trump
children = Donald J. Trump, Maryanne Trump Barry, Robert Trump, Fred Trump, Jr., Elizabeth Trump Grau
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Frederick Christ "Fred" Trump (October 11, 1905 – June 25, 1999) was the father of the prolific real estate/entertainment magnate Donald Trump, his fourth of five children.

Fred Trump was born on October 11, 1905 in Woodhaven, Queens, New York. His parents were German Christian immigrants Frederick Trump (Kallstadt, Rheinland-Pfalz, March 14 1869 – March 30 1918), who immigrated to the United States in 1885 and became a naturalized US Citizen in 1892, and his wife, Elisabeth Christ (October 10 1880 – June 6 1966), whom he married at Kallstadt, Rheinland-Pfalz, in 1902. [ [http://www.wargs.com/other/trump.html Ancestry of Donald Trump ] ] His father, Friederich, was an entrepreneur who began his fortune running the Arctic Restaurant and Hotel in Bennett, British Columbia, during the Klondike Gold Rush, but died during the 1918 Spanish Flu when Fred was only 13. In 1936 Fred Trump married Mary A. MacLeod (Stornoway, Scotland, May 10 1912 – August 7 2000), a Scottish immigrant, in New York City. Trump started his career as a real estate developer and became rich by building and operating affordable rental housing in the New York City boroughs of Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island. Trump amassed a $400 million fortune, which was largely left to his children, contributing a significant amount to Donald Trump's wealth. Fred Trump died of pneumonia in June 1999 at Long Island Jewish Medical Center in New Hyde Park, New York.

References

*Rozhon, Tracie. "Fred C. Trump, Postwar Master Builder of Housing for Middle Class, Dies at 93," "The New York Times", June 26, 1999.
* [http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:Q-0xy7O3lXwJ:genealogy.about.com/od/famous_family_trees/p/trump.htm+%22frederick+christ+trump%22&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us Trump family tree]