Frederic Tudor

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

Life

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

The "Ice King"

After visiting the Caribbean islands, he decided to try his hand at exporting ice cream from Massachusetts there. From 1805 he began shipping the ice extracted in the northern states, which he first delivered from Charlestown (Boston) to Martinique and Jamaica to combat yellow fever and from 1815 to Havana , Charleston and New Orleans . In 1820, Tudor built a large ice cream warehouse in New Orleans and expanded its trade to Rio de Janeiro and Calcutta . Because of his success in the natural ice industry, he was also called "Ice King" in Boston. Tudor eventually made wealth through the export of natural ice to the Caribbean , Europe and India .

literature

Alexandra Bröhm: The Boston Spinner. In: Sunday newspaper . July 1, 2018, pp. 52–53 ( online version) .
Henry Greenleaf Pearson: November Meeting. Frederic Tudor, Ice King . In: Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society . tape 65 , November 9, 1933, ISSN 0076-4981 , p. 169-215 , JSTOR : 25080286 .

Web links

Peter Korneffel : Trading in frozen water. The ice king of Boston. In: Spiegel Online from April 12, 2008.
Steven Johnson: Creating Cold. In: BBC News of February 18, 2015.

Individual evidence

↑ Crystal Blocks of Yankee Coldness. The Development of the Massachusetts Ice Trade from FREDERIC TUDOR TO WENHAM LAKE 1806–1886. By PHILIP CHADWICK FOSTER SMITH from The Essex Institute Historical Collections - 1961.

personal data
SURNAME	Tudor, Frederic
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American businessman
DATE OF BIRTH	September 4, 1783
PLACE OF BIRTH	Boston , Massachusetts , USA
DATE OF DEATH	February 6, 1864
Place of death	Boston , Massachusetts , USA

[1] Crystal Blocks of Yankee Coldness. The Development of the Massachusetts Ice Trade from FREDERIC TUDOR TO WENHAM LAKE 1806–1886. By PHILIP CHADWICK FOSTER SMITH from The Essex Institute Historical Collections - 1961.