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The German barber, restaurant-owner and property speculator Friedrich Trump and his young wife Elisabeth did not intend to spend their married life in the United States.
Both had been born in the small town of Kallstadt, in the Pfalz (or Palatinate) region in southwestern Germany, not far from the French border.
As a young man in the 1880s Friedrich had left Europe to seek his fortune in America during the Gold Rush, heading to Washington State and the Yukon to open hotel-restaurants catering to gold-diggers.
Great grandfather biography
After marrying Elisabeth in 1901 the couple moved to New York. But by 1904 she had grown homesick and they returned to make a living in their homeland.
Yet their homeland rejected them, because Friedrich Trump had broken the law.
By going to the U.S. he had skipped Germany’s compulsory military service. As punishment his Germ