Friedrich Trump came to the United States amid a flood of Germans—nearly 1 million made the journey to settle in America between 1880 and 1885. It was, the Times reported, "the start of an adventurous life as a barber, restaurateur, saloonkeeper, hotelier, entrepreneur, gold rush prospector, shipwreck survivor and New York real-estate investor."
He married a woman from his German hometown, Kallstadt, where his parents had owned vineyards, and attempted to return home with the small fortune he'd made in New York, Seattle and the Yukon. But when his draft dodging came to the fore, the couple lost their Bavarian citizenship and were obliged to return to America for good. There, they had three children: Trump's father, Fred (and anchor baby), was the middle child. Born in the Bronx borough of New York City in 1905.
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