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Bavarian law made Friedrich Trump's departure illegal for failing mandatory military service and failing to notify authorities.
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 ...
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...
Primary, contemporaneous records tied to Friedrich (Frederick) Trump’s 1885 emigration and the later Bavarian citizenship actions include passenger arrival lists showing a “Friedr. Trumpf” on the stea...