A Cartoon History of Trumps, 1869-2018: Three generations of plunder

1. Friedrich Trump is born in Kallstadt, in what was then Bavaria. At the age of thirteen he is apprenticed to a barber. He later leaves for Bremen, and in 1885, at sixteen, departs for New York to better his fortunes and avoid the draft.



2. In 1891, with savings from his barbering earnings in New York, Friedrich (now known as Frederick) moves to Seattle and buys a restaurant in the city’s red-light district. It was very common for establishments of this kind to feature a variety of forms of entertainment, including what were called “rooms for ladies.”

In 1894, Frederick Trump sells his establishment in Seattle and moves to the gold-mining town of Monte Cristo, Washington, staking a claim on previously claimed land for the mineral rights (a corrupt practice allowed at the time). Instead of mining, he built a hostelry for the miners (also most likely featuring women working at night).



3. In 1897 he sells his establishment in Monte Cristo and the following year leaves for the Yukon. He finds his gold not in prospecting but in providing services to miners. The tent restaurant he establishes takes advantage of the abundance of flash-frozen horse carcasses: animals abused in transit that were easily found where they’d fallen along the White Pass. The nearby town is, appropriately, named White Horse.

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