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	KPBS - Script (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Spreckels moved Lillie, his younger son, two daughters and their families south to San Diego, to live in the Hotel del Coronado.
		In public, John Spreckels appeared stern and aloof, but in private he was a devoted family man, with a sense of fun and good humor that his grandchildren adored.
		Spreckels love of music was deeply personal, and this one-of-a-kind outdoor pipe organ became the centerpiece of the Exposition.
	www.kpbs.org /Television/DynPage.php?id=160 (6739 words)

	The Spreckels Era in Rio Del Mar, 1872--1922
		Claus Spreckels was born in 1828 and was raised in the little town of Lamstedt, in the independent Kingdom of Hanover.
		The third was for Claus and Anna (Mangels) Spreckels in the Punahou District of Honolulu - it was almost identical to the first; it was partially dismantled and moved in 1915, and burned in 1954.
		The fourth was for Claus and Anna (Zweig) Mangels in 1888 (he was brother-in-law and business partner of Claus Spreckels; a second marriage for him) a mile up Aptos Creek from the village; it was almost identical to the first and third.
	www.santacruzpl.org /history/places/spreck.shtml (3010 words)

	Imperial Sugar Company - Spreckels
		Claus Spreckels’ first introduction to the San Joaquin Valley was as a railroad builder.
		Spreckels used that information to leverage the Salinas growers by giving them a two-week ultimatum of 30,000 acres or he was building in Woodland.
		Spreckels imported Germans from the East Coast, but they were tradesmen, not farmers so labor problems continued in the factory and on the farm.
	www.imperialholly.com /fw/main/Spreckels-95.html (1074 words)

	CLAUS SPRECKELS - LoveToKnow Article on CLAUS SPRECKELS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		It was he who built the railway from Salinas to San Francisco, by buying which the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe first made a through line into San Francisco.
		Spreckels died in San Francisco o,~ the 26th of December 1908.
		1853), became proprietor of the San Francisco Morning Call and succeeded to his fathers steamship interests; and another son, Rudolph Spreckels (1873), became president of the First National Bank of San Francisco.
	28.1911encyclopedia.org /S/SP/SPRECKELS_CLAUS.htm (235 words)

	California AHGP - Claus Spreckels (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The life of Claus Spreckels is one of the interesting and absorbing personal histories of which America is so proud.
		Spreckels, in the course of some visits to the Sandwich Islands, was impressed with the possibilities of sugar-cane culture and leasing twenty thousand acres of land for his purpose from the government, he developed it and made cane-growing one of the foremost industries of those ocean realms.
		Spreckels was one of the organizers of the Independent Electric Light and Power Company and of the Independent Gas Company in San Francisco, being the first president.
	www.usgennet.org /usa/ca/state1/biographies/cspreckels.html (373 words)

	Claus Spreckels - Explore Monterey County California (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Spreckels soon opened a grocery chain with locations in South Carolina, San Francisco and New York he also helped start a brewery and a sugar refinery.
		Spreckels sold his interest in the refinery and returned to Germany to work in the refineries gaining first hand knowledge that would help him in opening his own refinery.
		It was in 1886 that Spreckels had turned to sugar beets as the raw sugar material because of the changing politics overseas.
	www.mtycounty.com /pgs-pioneers/spreckels.html (273 words)

	Archives: Story (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Spreckels Sugar -- the firm that at one time was the dominant employer in Manteca -- was closing for good.
		Claus Spreckels started construction on the sugar beet processing plant the same year Manteca incorporated as a city.
		Spreckels had made a run at trying to stay competitive having invested millions in pollution control devices a few years earlier.
	www.mantecabulletin.com /articles/2005/01/09/news/news1.txt (563 words)

	Sandy Lydon - Hooey History Aptos Polo Fields
		Claus Spreckels bought the property (and most of Aptos) in the 1870s from the original Aptos Rancho grantee, Rafael Castro.
		An 1879 etching of Claus Spreckels' summer farm in Aptos.
		Spreckels died in 1908, and parts of his Aptos summer estate eventually passed into the hands of developers who wanted to build an upper-class summer home enclave on the property.
	www.sandylydon.com /html/hoo2.html (457 words)

	bestfamilyresorts.com: Your online guide to family vacations and romantic getaways in California
		John Dietrich Spreckels, the eldest son of sugar magnate Claus Spreckels, first saw the small town of San Diego from the bay as he sailed his yacht into the San Diego Harbor for provisions, while on a fishing trip in 1887.
		Spreckels, who gave the city its library, several parks, and its largest commercial building, the Spreckels Building, had his dream home built on five acres of land overlooking Glorietta Bay, across from the Hotel Del Coronado.
		Spreckels' dream home is a white, ornate, Italian renaissance landmark which you can visit today for a romantic and child-friendly experience.
	www.bestfamilyresorts.com /resorts/so_cal/glorietta.shtml (894 words)

	Five Views: An Ethnic Historic Site Survey for California (Mexican Americans)
		When Claus Spreckels, the "Sugar King," left Hawaii and established his sugar refinery in the Salinas Valley in 1899, he built the town of Spreckels as a planned community for his Anglo factory workers.
		While much research remains to be done on the colonia itself, the historical significance of the colonia and of Spreckels is that development of the sugar beet industry was the primary basis for migration of large numbers of Mexicanos into the Salinas Valley in the early twentieth century.
		Further, at Spreckels, as in Ventura County, Mexican farm labor was brought in to replace Japanese farm workers, who also operated under a contract system but who had brought down the wrath of the growers by striking for higher wages.
	www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/5views/5views5h88.htm (405 words)

	Rising Tide by Richard Pourade
		In San Diego Spreckels was erecting the massive structure that was to dominate the main business street of the city over which he had exerted so much influence for nearly forty years.
		In a little more than one month Claus Spreckels announced he was resigning from the advisory board of the Spreckels interests, and later formed three companies of his own.
		In the two decades the two Spreckels brothers, John and Adolph, had doubled the $25,000,000 inherited from their father, Claus Spreckels, despite having had losses in San Diego.
	www.sandiegohistory.org /books/pourade/rising/risingchapter4.htm (6062 words)

	Encyclopedia of San Francisco
		Considered by many local historians to be the "great grandmother of San Francisco," the heiress to the fortune of sugar baron Adolph Spreckels was born Alma le Normand de Bretteville on a sandy farm in the city's Sunset District in 1881.
		Adoph was the loyal son of German-American industrialist Claus Spreckels, who had amassed a fortune growing a sugar production empire that virtually monopolized Hawaii and most of the western hemisphere.
		[1] The Spreckels mansion at 2080 Washington Street is currently not open to the public and is the private residence of successful writer Danielle Steel.
	www.sfhistoryencyclopedia.com /articles/biography/spreckelsAlma.html (1135 words)

	Spreckels Mansion, San Francisco
		The Spreckels Mansion, situated two blocks west of Van Ness Avenue in the district known as Pacific Heights, is noteworthy both on account of the man who built it and for its architecture.
		Adolph B Spreckels was the son of Claus Spreckels, an immigrant from Hanover in Germany; Spreckels senior made his fortune as the "sugar king" of California.
		Three years later, in 1915, Spreckels entrusted him with an even more ambitious project, the design of the California Palace of the Legion of Honor in Lincoln Park, which the millionaire and his wife bequeathed to the city.
	www.planetware.com /usa/california/san-francisco/spreckels-mansion-us-ca-spms.htm (175 words)

	THE APTOS ALMANAC
		After Spreckels’ death in 1908 his Aptos Ranch was kept operating for 14 more years, but his heirs lacked the enthusiasm for the venture their patriarch had possessed.
		Little is known what personal feelings Frederick Hihn and Claus Spreckels might have had for one another, but their first meeting must have resembled Richard Branson crashing a dinner party for Warren Buffett.
		Spreckels’ style was brash and aggressive, whereas Hihn, long accustomed to being the only millionaire in Santa Cruz County, was a precise and calculating manager.
	www.theaptosalmanac.com (2995 words)

	Monterey County Historical Society, Local History Pages--Biography of Claus Spreckels (1828-1908) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Claus Spreckels was born in Landstedt, in the then independent kingdom of Hanover, on July 9, 1828.
		The character of Claus Spreckels is perhaps exemplified by this story: In 1895, Spreckels began construction of the Spreckels Building in San Francisco, and when completed it was the tallest building in the city.
		But Spreckels was annoyed because smoke from two plants of the San Francisco Gas and Electric Company were smudging the sides of the building and annoying his tenants.
	www.mchsmuseum.com /clausspreckels.html (465 words)

	Old map ignites battle over future of tiny Spreckels (CA) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Spreckels, about four miles south of Salinas, is the only town in Monterey County designated as a "historic district." John Steinbeck and his dad worked there.
		The Association of Spreckels Residents and LandWatch Monterey County, an influential environmental group, are co-plaintiffs in the case.
		Spreckels, the son of German peasants, played such a huge role in the development of Hawaii's sugar industry that he was knighted by a Hawaiian king.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1318101/posts (2965 words)

	Lili'uokalani Loses A Big One (The Crown Lands) -- Liliuokalani v. United States, 45 Ct. Cl. 418 (1910)
		Nevertheless, Claus Spreckels, a powerful businessman, had paid money to the Princess for her interest in the Crown Lands, and the government of the Kingdom of Hawai'i wanted to avoid any cloud on the title of these lands.
		The commissioners of crown lands are hereby authorized and empowered to make proper deeds of assurance to the said Claus Spreckels, of the several lands specified in the schedule hereto, in full satisfaction and discharge of all claims the said Claus Spreckels may have or claim in the said lands known as crown lands.
		The minister of the interior is hereby authorized to prepare and deliver to the said Claus Spreckels a royal patent for the said land to be conveyed to him.
	www.angelfire.com /hi2/hawaiiansovereignty/liliucrownlands.html (9671 words)

	A-Maui-RealEstate.com, Maui Information
		Spreckels went on to invest more than $4 million in the Hawaiian economy.
		Despite all of this, Spreckels was always considered an "outsider" and deeply resented for his acumen in promoting his own interests and maintaining his empire.
		By 1898, his era on Maui had ended, and the only reminder of the man is the name of the area where the center of his extensive sugar plantation once stood.
	www.a-maui-realestate.com /Maui.php?ContentID=4330662a40dc2 (301 words)

	landWatch: KUSP News Week of February 2, 2004 to February 6, 2004
		In 1899, Claus Spreckels built largest beet sugar factory in the United States on the banks of the Salinas River.
		John Steinbeck worked at the factory, and used Spreckels as a setting for some portions of ìTortilla Flats.î The movie version of East of Eden was largely filmed in Spreckels, which has been given a special historical designation by Monterey County.
		Spreckels is only a few minutes from Salinas, and can be approached along a spectacular avenue of massive old walnut trees.
	www.landwatch.org /pages/kusp2004/020204kusp.html (1341 words)

	Rio Del Mar
		In 1872, sugar magnate Claus Spreckels bought a parcel of land that comprises modern-day Rio Del Mar, Seascape and parts of Aptos.
		Spreckels planted beets on the land and encouraged local farmers to do the same.
		Although Spreckels eventually moved operations to the Watsonville area, Rio Del Mar was instrumental in the early development of the crop.
	www.coastparadise.com /homes/california/northern-california/santa-cruz/rio-del-mar.php (681 words)

	MID-COUNTY POST ON-LINE—April 9, 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Spreckels and his brother Peter grew up on a farm in Germany, while Mangels was born in Hanover.
		The partners — Peter, Claus and Claus — moved to Hangtown in Sutter County after hearing news of the gold strike.
		It was rumored that Spreckels helped finance the construction in order to have a place to send guests who he didn't want to stay at his Aptos Hotel.
	www.mcpost.com /archives/040902.html (8802 words)

	Spreckels, Claus -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
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		Laid out in 1846, it was jocularly called Santa Claus after the preferred name of Santa Fe was found to be that of another Indiana community (and because it was the Christmas season).
		When Claus married then crown princess Beatrix in March 1966, he faced public protests and official misgivings over his boyhood membership in the Hitler Youth and his World War II service in the Wehrmacht, but he ultimately...
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9313671 (593 words)

	wedding \| directions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		By 1872 Claus Spreckels, the sugar millionaire, began buying the land from Castro.
		A large area was fenced and stocked with deer for hunting, and that area became known as "The Deer Park." Spreckels brother-in-law Claus Mangels built himself a mansion, and Rafael Castro's son-in-law Joseph Arano built the Bayview Hotel.
		After Spreckels' death, Seacliff Park and Rio Del Mar Country Club were developed.
	www.candycoveredbooks.com /~rdreyes/photos/weddings/rosa/directions.html (339 words)

	The Western Beet Sugar Company (1896)
		Some years ago Claus Spreckels, the famous Sugar King, had his attention attracted to the peculiar adaptability of the rich alluvial soil of the Pajaro Valley to the cultivation of the sugar beet.
		And when that time does come, when thousands of men earn the means of comfortable life from the broad beet fields of the future, the name of Claus Spreckels will be spoken with affectionate regard and admiration for his genius, his foresight, his pluck, and his wonderful achievements.
		Long, long after his mortal frame has returned to the elements from which it sprang, Claus Spreckels will be remembered as a benefactor of his kind, a useful man among men, and a citizen for whose life the Republic has cause to be profoundly grateful.
	www.santacruzpl.org /history/work/beetsugar.shtml (1532 words)

	Claus Sluter -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Claus also spelled Claes, or Klaas influential master of early Netherlandish sculpture, who moved beyond the dominant French taste of the time and into highly individual monumental, naturalistic forms.
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		People who live in the cold winter climates of North America and Europe look forward to a “white Christmas,” because snow is one of the features associated with the holiday season.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9068239 (749 words)

	Claus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		It is switching a flat car loaded with large quarried rocks between the rail yard and the Kahului Harbor east breakwater extension under construction.
		In February 1884, "Claus Spreckels" pulling a load of nine cars had just approached the Wailuku depot (located just East of the present day intersection of Lower Main and Mill streets) and had uncoupled the last seven cars for unloading while it went ahead to the depot.
		"Claus" has been restored and is in storage at the Alexander & Baldwin Sugar Museum in Puunene.
	www.maui-meshworks.com /claus.htm (488 words)

	G.R. No. L-4648
		Judgment was rendered in that cause on July 16, 1906, in favor of the plaintiffs therein and against the defendant Ward, for the sum of P5,795.72, with interest thereon at 8 per cent per annum, from the 10th day of March, 1904, and costs.
		Irwin, are the same as Claus Spreckels and Co. in whose favor the bond in question was executed.
		The plaintiffs in this case are Claus Spreckels and Wm.
	www.lawphil.net /judjuris/juri1909/jan1909/gr_l-4648_1909.html (739 words)

	Mario Boone - scripophily - old bond and share certificates (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Chartered in 1895, this 300-mile road between Stockton and Bakersfield was financed by Claus Spreckels to break the monopoly of the Southern Pacific Railroad.
		Claus Spreckels (1828-1908) was a German-born American sugar-manufacturer and refiner; known as the "Sugar King".
		Spreckels' vast real estate holdings included the Spreckels Building on Market Street, the first skyscraper in San Francisco.
	www.booneshares.com /cgi-bin/theme.cgi?lotnr=209 (114 words)

	Blount Report - Page 1244
		Sir: It will be remembered that in connection with the presentation on the 19th of July, 1893, of a cane to Mr.
		Claus Spreckels, there was an unwarrantable use of the name of Hon.
		Blount- had no knowledge of the preparation of the said cane nor of the presentation thereof to Col. Spreckels, and it was not the intention of the donors of the same to intimate in any way that he (Mr.
	libweb.hawaii.edu /digicoll/annexation/blount/br1244.html (352 words)

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