Charles Franklin Seabrook

Background

Seabrook, Charles Franklin was born on May 28, 1881 in Cumberland County, New Jersey, United States. Son of Arthur Peter and Elizabeth (Riley) Seabrook.

Education

Educational public schools, Cumberland County, New Jersey. Doctor of Laws, Ithaca College, 1952. Doctor of Humane Letters, Rutgers University, 1955.

Career

Begal agricultural operations. seed growing, intensive garden trucking, pioneered installation Skinner type overhead irrigation, United States, 1900-1909. Farmed 3,000 acres, World War I. Planted several thousand acre fruit orchards.

Applied assembly line technique in commercial agricultural operations, constructed cold storage facilities, 1919. New Jersey Highway Commissioner, 1920-1923.

Established Seabrook Engineering Corporation, 1924, constructing bridges, highways, United States.

Founded Seabrook International Engineering Corporation 1928, built public works in 8 European countries. Expansion vegetable processing facilities, 1929. Experimental work on commercial vegetable freezing, 1931.

Organized Deerfield Packing Corporation (now Seabrook Farms Company), 1933.

Honorary chairman of Seeman Brothers, Incorporated. President, director Seabrook Farms, Incorporated.

Achievements

• Charles Franklin Seabrook has been listed as a noteworthy farmer, business executive. by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member of the board of trustees Ithaca College, Westminster Choir College. Republican Presbyterian. Clubs: Engineers, Pinnacle, Lotos, (New York).

Connections

Married Norma Dale Ivins, November 22, 1905 (deceased). Children: Belford L., C(harles) Courtney, Thelma Dale (Mistress Robert A. Sidur), John Martin.

Father:

Arthur Peter Seabrook

Mother:

Elizabeth (Riley) Seabrook

Spouse:

Norma Dale Ivins

child:

John Martin Seabrook

child:

Belford L. Seabrook

child:

Thelma Dale Seabrook (Mistress Robert A. Sidur)

child:

C Seabrook (harles) Courtney