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Tudor was born on September 4, 1783 in Boston, Massachussets. Tudor was the third son of William Tudor, a wealthy Boston lawyer, and Delia Jarvis Tudor.
His older brother William Tudor (1779–1830) would become one of Boston's leading literary figures.
Tudor spurned the chance to be educated at Harvard.
From the age of 13 he occupied himself with business. After a visit to the Caribbean, he decided he could make a fortune exporting ice from the ponds of Massachusetts.
When he was twenty-one he and his brother William conceived the idea of sending a cargo of ice to Martinique, and, in spite of the ridicule of their friends, with the aid of their cousin, James Savage, they put their plan into effect, the vessel arriving at Saint-Pierre in March 1806. For the next fifteen years, alone, in debt and sometimes in jail for it, Tudor persisted in his scheme.
By 1821 he had established himself in Havana and Charleston, and had undertaken a venture in New Orleans. His assistant, Nathaniel J. Wyeth, had mastered the technique of ice-cutting on the ponds around Boston; Tudor himself, through much experiment, had learned how to ship his ice with the least possible loss, had devised a structure that would keep his commodity in warm climates, and had succeeded in making the use of ice an accepted thing in cities there.
In the next ten or a dozen years he had to meet a good deal of competition; but his vigorous, not to say ruthless methods, his fanatical belief in his business, and his determination to become rich and enjoy the "delicious essence" of flattery overcame all obstacles.
In May 1833 he sent his first cargo to Calcutta, and the success of this long-dreamed-of project made possible a world-wide expansion of his business. The number of tons of ice shipped from Boston, beginning with 130 in 1806, rose to 1, 200 in 1816; to 4, 000 in 1826; to 12, 000 in 1836; to 65, 000 in 1846; to 146, 000 in 1856.
In this last year 363 cargoes were sent to fifty-three different places in the United States, the West Indies, the East Indies, China, the Philippines, and Australia.
To Boston the trade was invaluable. Notwithstanding the growth of his enterprise, Tudor's embarrassments continued: the loss of over $200, 000 in an unlucky coffee speculation kept him dependent on his creditors; for years he carried on a fierce fight with his agent in Havana for the control of the business there.
It was not until he had reached the age of sixty-five that, with his debts extinguished and his lawsuit won, he was a free man.
Living at the age of eighty, he was in his last years a marked man in the life of Boston, already, as "Ice King, " the hero of a legend in the "romance" of American business-a legend that only grows with the passage of time.
He died on February 6, 1864 in Boston.
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Frederic Tudor was an extreme example of militant, despotic, and punitive individualism. With his quick and originating mind.
Quotes from others about the person
"Mr. Tudor and his ice came just in time to preserve Boston's East-India commerce from ruin. Our carrying trade between Calcutta and Europe had declined almost to extinction. For a generation after the Civil War, until cheap artificial ice was invented, this export trade increased and prospered. Not Boston alone, but every New England village with a pond near tidewater was able to turn this Yankee liability into an asset, through the genius of Frederic Tudor" ( Morison, The Maritime History of Massachusetts, 1921).
He initiated many undertakings: he brought to Boston the first steam locomotive, a toy affair of one horse-power, which ran on the sidewalk; he designed a new type of hull for sailing vessels; he developed a graphite mine in Sturbridge, Massachussets; he created the Maolis Gardens at Nahant, probably the first amusement park in the United States.
Frederic married Euphemia Fenno (April 6, 1814, Mount Upton, New York– March 9, 1884, Newbury, Vermont). His oldest son, Frederic (February 11, 1845 – Boston 1902), was an 1867 graduate of Harvard College and a member of one of the first graduating classes at St. Paul's School (Concord, New Hampshire). The Ice King's second son, William, was also a graduate of St. Paul's School.
The younger Frederic was the grandfather of the 20th-century watercolorist and book illustrator Tasha Tudor (Frederic's daughter Rosamond married William Starling Burgess). She was born in Boston in 1915 and was named Starling Burgess for her father. She styled herself as Tasha Tudor and published under that name.
(March 28, 1750 – July 8, 1819) He was a wealthy lawyer and leading citizen of Boston.
(April 6, 1814, Mount Upton, New York– March 9, 1884, Newbury, Vermont)
(January 28, 1779 – March 9, 1830) He was a leading citizen of Boston, sometime literary man, and cofounder of the North American Review and the Boston Athenæum.
