George Stiebel

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George Stiebel (* around 1821; † 1896 ) was a Jamaican trader and entrepreneur who became a millionaire with sea transport between North and South America and as the owner of a gold mine.

family

His parents were Sigismund Stiebel (* 1790 in Frankfurt; † September 11, 1859 ), a Jew who had emigrated from Germany and his housekeeper, a Jamaican of African descent. Sigismund operated as a trader in South America and the West Indies . He later married Eliza Jacob, b. Mocatta (1811–1858), the couple's children, Adeline, Daniel, Jacob and Rebecca, were born between 1837 and 1844. Sigismund was buried three days after his death in London's Balls Pond Jewish Cemetery . The paternal grandparents were Isaac Daniel Stiebel (* 1764 or 1766 - March 26, 1850) from the colorful lion and bird Heinemann.

Life

George Stiebel left school at the age of 14, first working for a carpenter and then at the age of 19 at the famous Ferry Inn in Jamaica, between Kingston and Spanish Town .

With the start-up capital that his father gave him in the 1840s, he was able to acquire one and later two more ships and set up a sea transport between North and South America. In the late colonial days of Cuba , he switched to a more lucrative arms trade, which is why he had to stay in prison for a while. In 1851 he married the missionary daughter Magdalene Baker († 1892), with whom he had the children Sigismund (died early) and Theresa († 1922).

After his ship is said to have sunk off the coast of Venezuela in 1856, he returned in 1873 as a wealthy man. He is said to have discovered a gold mine with three other colored people, which is said to have had a monthly income of £ 80,000 for several years. While the others gave away their shares at a ridiculous price, he kept his shares and became a millionaire when the mine was later capitalized for $ 16,000,000.

In Jamaica, he acquired 99 properties, including two sugar plantations, a quay at the Church Street, Great Salt Pond and a Rinderpferch in Minard in the district of Saint Ann's Bay . After October 1879, the ownership of the Church of England on Devon Penn in Kingston that the Geneva pastors James Zeller had received in 1644, had expired, George Stiebel was two years later there would be representative Devon House building. Located in a park, the classicist mansion, built in 1881, is one of the sights of Kingston today.

In 1891 he was awarded Queen Victoria's Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George .

literature

  • Enid Shields: Devon House families ; 1991

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.cemeteryscribes.com/getperson.php?personID=I8256&tree=Cemeteries ( Memento from August 17, 2012 on WebCite )
  2. ^ The gentleman's magazine, Vol. 34
  3. ↑ The History of Frankfurt Jews since the French Revolution, Vol. 2; Pp. 180, 199
  4. ↑ http://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/92037  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. E7F8DAF07C032A56AF1BD6A8B84FA8BF8509A230.html@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.europeana.eu  
  5. ^ Proceedings of the Royal Colonial Institute , Volume 24 (1893), p. 88
  6. ^ Crisis, Volume 47 (1969) National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; P. 9
  7. ↑ Figure

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personal data
SURNAME Stiebel, George
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Jamaican trader and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH around 1821
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt
DATE OF DEATH 1896