The Trump family is certainly one of the best of the cream in the United States. The account of their immense wealth goes back to the patriarch of the dynasty – Fred Trump, American multi-millionaire real estate developer and father of Donald-Trump – the 45th President of the United States.
After his father’s death, Fred Trump started a construction business with his mother Elizabeth as his partner. He started by building garages and then proceeded to build apartments. His expertise was later expanded to encompass barracks, as well as the apartments he built near shipyards for US Navy personnel. He then began building single-family apartment complexes for middle-income groups and returning soldiers during World War II. The total number of apartments he built in and around New York City amounted to 27,000. He was widely recognized as a hardworking man before his disappearance in 1999.
Who was Fred Trump?
Fred Trump was born in Bronx, New York on October 11, 1905 and he is an American citizen as indicated by his place of birth. Her parents Fredrick Trump and Elizabeth Trump (née Christ) were Lutherans from Germany, but her father was from Kallstadt, Germany. He earned his living by his job as a barber. of the Klondike Gold Rush, but died when his son Fredrick was 13.
Fredrick grew up alongside an older sister named Elizabeth Trump Walters and a younger brother – a brother called John George Trump. His middle name, Christ, comes from his mother’s maiden name. After his birth, the Trump family moved to Woodhaven, Queens, where he joined “Richmond Hill High School,” where he completed high school.
He founded his construction business in the 1920s at the age of 15, while still a minor he partnered with his mother Elizabeth who ran the formal business sector until the age of legal age 21. The company was called E. Trump & Sons; his company began building garages for newly invented vehicles, as well as marketed automobiles.
He ended up building thousands of apartments during his active years in the construction business. Alzheimer’s disease plagued his last six years, but he died aged 93 in June 1999 following complications from pneumonia. He was admitted to Long Island Jewish Medical Center at the time of his death.
Children and family life
Fred Trump’s only wife, Mary Anne MacLeod, was an emigrant from Glasgow in Scotland on the RMS Transylvania. She left Scotland in November 1929 and the ship’s manifest, which was the common means of transport at the time, listed her occupation as “handmaiden” or “domestic”. Her occupation had also been captured as such in the 1930 census. She was granted a U.S. Re-Entry Permit, acquired only by immigrants who wish to remain and obtain citizenship, and she undertook frequent international travels, including a return to his country of Scotland until his naturalization in 1942.
Fred Trump – a Lutheran, married Mary – Presbyterian at Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church in the first month of 1936, with George Arthur Buttrick serving as officiating priest. They held their reception at the Carlyle Hotel in Manhattan with 25 guests in attendance. The newlyweds later settled in Jamaica, Queens with their union producing five children namely; Maryanne Trump Barry, born in 1937, is a judge of the Federal Court of Appeals. Their second child, Frederick Christ “Freddy” Trump Jr. came the following year, in 1938 he was a pilot with Trans World Airlines but sadly died in 1981 aged 42 from complications resulting from excessive alcohol consumption.
The third child of the Trump family is ElizabethTrump Grau, she was born in 1942 and works for the Chase Manhattan Bank as an executive. The most successful of all the Trump children is Donald Trump, 45th President of the United States of America, TV personality and very successful businessman. Donald was born in 1946. Robert Trump, who arrived in 1948, was the last executive of their father’s real estate company.
Fred Trump was a strong supporter of several charities which included many Israeli and Jewish institutions like; American Boy Scouts, the Salvation Army, as well as Kew-Forest School, the school his children went through. He has supported organizations like: Jamaican Hospital Center, Cerebral Palsy Foundation, National Kidney Foundation, and Community Living Associates of Great Neck. He did this by giving them buildings.
His net worth
It is believed that all of his wealth came from his real estate and at the time of his death, his estimated net worth was estimated at $250 million by some sources, but some of them were as high as $300 million. Fred Trump was a fulfilled man to the end.