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Friedrich (Frederick) Trump — Donald Trump’s paternal grandfather — emigrated from Bavaria to the United States in 1885 at age 16 and entered through Castle Garden in New York; his departure violated ...
Two of Donald Trump’s four grandparents immigrated to the United States: his paternal grandfather Friedrich (Frederick) Trump arrived from Kallstadt in the Kingdom of Bavaria in October 1885 at age 16...
Records show Friedrich (Frederick) Trump emigrated from Kallstadt, Bavaria, to the United States in 1885 and appears in U.S. immigration and census records under anglicized names; biographers and publ...
A clear paper trail links Friedrich (Frederick) Trump to U.S. immigration: he arrived from Bremen aboard the steamship Eider in October 1885 and is recorded on the Castle Garden passenger manifest; la...
Friedrich (Frederick) Trump emigrated from Kallstadt, Bavaria, to the United States in 1885 at age 16 and arrived in New York in mid-October of that year; contemporary accounts and family memoirs plac...
Donald Trump’s paternal grandfather, Friedrich (also called Frederick) Trump, emigrated from Kallstadt in the Kingdom of Bavaria to the United States in October 1885, arriving at New York’s immigrant ...
arrived in the in October 1885 as a 16‑year‑old immigrant through , the primary New York entry point before , and later filed for a U.S. passport—both facts in the historical record that point to lawf...
appears in 19th‑century immigration records as an arrivals passenger to in October 1885, and later German administrative records show ordered his expulsion in 1905 for evading compulsory military serv...
Frederick (Friedrich) Trump left Kallstadt, Bavaria, for the United States in October 1885 as a 16-year-old, boarding the steamship Eider from Bremen and arriving at the Castle Garden immigrant depot ...
Frederick Trump (born Friedrich Trump/Trumpf) emigrated from Kallstadt, Bavaria, to the United States in 1885 and later became a U.S. citizen in 1892, but historians and contemporary records differ on...
Late-19th and early-20th century U.S. and German laws shaped Friedrich (Frederick) Trump’s migration: he emigrated from Bavaria to the United States in 1885 at age 16, an act that violated Bavarian ru...
Friedrich (Frederick) Trump is documented in U.S. arrival records as a 16‑year‑old who sailed from Bremen on the S.S. Eider on October 7, 1885 and was processed at New York’s Castle Garden on October ...
Primary-source records tied to include an 1885 entry at that lists a “Friedr. Trumpf,” a 1892 minor in , and an 1896 U.S. passport application filed by Trump; these documents together record variants ...
and represented two different eras of immigration administration, and those differences show up plainly in surviving records: Castle Garden was a state-run, 19th-century depot whose passenger lists we...
Primary contemporaneous documents that track ’s movements from 1885 through his U.S. residences include his 1885 passenger manifest entry arriving at , a administrative record and royal decree concern...
Official records are clear about ’s later self‑reported occupation — he described himself as a “hotelkeeper” on a 1904 U.S. passport application — but the surviving reporting and primary‑source summar...
Friedrich (Frederick) Trump’s paper trail includes U.S. arrival records at Castle Garden, patchy references to U.S. naturalization efforts, and a set of Bavarian archival documents—a banishment/deport...
Frederick (Friedrich) Trump arrived in the United States as a teenage emigrant in 1885, settling in New York after disembarking at Castle Garden and quickly entering the workforce as a barber’s appren...
Historians resolve discrepancies about Friedrich (Frederick) Trump’s birth details by triangulating German church/baptismal records, U.S. immigration and census entries, and later secondary biographie...