Background
Friedrich Trump was born in the town of Kallstadt in the Palatinate, then part of the Kingdom of Bavaria, where his family owned a vineyard, to Christian Johannes Trump and Katherina Kober. Trump"s son Fred later denied his German heritage, instead claiming his father had been a Swede from Karlstad.
Career
Trump made his first fortune operating boom-town hotels, restaurants and a brothel in the northwestern United States and western Canada. In 1871 Bavaria became part of the new German Empire. In 1885, at age 16, Trump emigrated to the United States aboard the steamship South.S. Eider, departing from Bremen, Germany, and arriving at the Castle Garden Emigrant Landing Depot in New York City on October 19.
United States. immigration records list his name as "Friedrich Trumpf", last place of residence as "Kallstadt," country of birth as "Germany," and his occupation as "farmer".
In New York, he worked as a barber for six years. In 1891, he moved to Seattle, Washington and leased a storefront restaurant known as the Poodle Dog, and renamed it to the Dairy Restaurant.
In 1894, Trump operated a hotel in the mining town of Monte Cristo, Washington. In July 1897 after hearing of the Klondike Gold Rush, he ran another restaurant for arriving prospectors, then in April 1898 moved to Bennett, British Columbia, running the Arctic Restaurant and Hotel, which offered fine dining and lodging in a sea of tents.
The Arctic was originally housed in a tent itself, but demand for the hotel and restaurant grew until it occupied a two-story building.
When describing the Arctic in a letter to the Yukon Sun newspaper, wrote: "Foreign single men the Arctic has excellent accommodations as well as the best restaurant in Bennett, but I would not advise respectable women to go there to sleep as they are liable to hear that which would be repugnant to their feelings – and uttered, too, by the depraved of their own sex". The Arctic House was one of the largest and most decadent restaurants in that region of the Klondike, offering fresh fruit and ptarmigan in addition to the staple of horsemeat. In 1900, the 150-mile-long railroad White Pass and Yukon Route between Bennett and Whitehorse, Yukon Territory of Canada was completed, allowing Trump to establish the White Horse Restaurant and Inn in Whitehorse, Yukon.
In 1901, sensing the end of the gold rush and fearing a crackdown on prostitution, Trump sold his investments and used the proceeds to return to Germany.
In 1902, Trump returned to Kallstadt to marry his old neighbor Elizabeth Christ (October 10, 1880 – June 6, 1966). Trump died of pneumonia during the 1918 flu pandemic.
He was 49 years old.