Talk:Claus Spreckels

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Birthdate differs from Find-A-Grave. Lincher 04:26, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

Death Date inconsistent
Spreckels' Death Date is 1908, yet this if found in the article: "In 1913, Spreckels built a huge white sugar cube of a Mansion for Alma deBrettville Spreckels, bride of his son Adolph, in the Pacific Heights neighborhood of San Francisco on Washington at Octavia." So which Spreckel's built this "sugar cube" mansion?


 * I see it's gone now (rightly): Claus Spreckels died in 1908 before the marriage of his son Adolph to Alma De Brettville. Adolph bought the Jean Boyd residence at the corner of Octavia & Washington street as a Christmas present for his wife in 1910, bought up five adjacent properties, and then had it demolished. Architects Kenneth MacDonald and George Applegarth designed a new mansion for Alma. It was completed in 1913, though it had not yet been furnished in time for a Christmas party held there that year. - Nunh-huh 10:49, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject class rating
This article was automatically assessed because at least one article was rated and this bot brought all the other ratings up to at least that level. BetacommandBot 11:05, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

Pacific Commercial Advertiser
In http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/commemorative/history is written that Walter M. Gibson bought the Pacific Commercial Advertiser in 1880. Were there two owners? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.171.92.111 (talk) 02:57, 26 January 2009 (UTC)

Mystery Bank
A tiny advertisement placed in the first issue of The Independent newspaper (Honolulu) in 1895 reads ' Claus Spreckels & Co., Bankers '.... here, (bottom right on page). Subsequent larger adverts were placed in the paper throughout the publication's short life. There's no reference in the article to Claus entering the banking business. Can anyone shed any light on this?MZionC (talk) 18:35, 13 September 2010 (UTC)

Research
Detailed research on Claus Spreckels can be found in a new article at http://www.h-net.org/~business/bhcweb/publications/BEHonline/2010/spiekermann.pdf — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.66.40.48 (talk) 22:23, 30 May 2011 (UTC)

New Source
The German Historical Institute in Washington, DC has published a short biographical article on Claus Spreckels that can be found here: http://www.immigrantentrepreneurship.org/entry.php?rec=5 Immigrantentrep (talk) 15:58, 30 May 2013 (UTC)