Frederic Tudor

Frederic Tudor ( September 4, 1783 *, † February 6, 1864 in Boston ) was an American businessman who was involved in trade in natural ice. He was the founder of the Tudor Ice Company.

Life

Tudor was ranked as the third son of William Tudor, a wealthy lawyer from Boston, born in 1783. Although his older brother William Tudor (1779-1830) one of the leading writers of Boston was, Tudor renounced the time the elite reserved opportunity to study at Harvard and learned from 13 years of age life of a businessman from scratch.

The Ice King

After he visited the Caribbean islands, he decided his luck with the export of ice from Massachusetts there to try. From 1805 he began shipment gained in the northern states of ice, which he delivered first of Charlestown ( Boston) to Martinique and Jamaica to combat yellow fever in 1815 and also to Havana, Charleston and New Orleans. 1820 Tudor built in New Orleans a great Eislagerhaus and extended his trade to Rio de Janeiro and Calcutta. Due to his success in Natureisgewerbe he was called in Boston "Ice King". Through the export of natural ice in the Caribbean, Europe and India Tudor finally came to wealth.

Weblink

• Spiegel Online: The Ice King of Boston, April 12, 2008

• Entrepreneurs ( trade )
• Entrepreneurs (19th Century )
• Americans
• Born in 1783
• Died in 1864
• Man