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Spreckels, John Diedrich

merchant, was born Aug. 16, 1853, in Charleston, S. C. In 1880 he founded the house now known as the J. D. Spreckels and Brothers company, capital $2,000,000, to engage in trade with the Hawaiian Islands, beginning operations with the little two hundred ton schooner Rosario. In 1887 he established the Spreckels Brothers Commercial company at San Diego, and built one of the finest wharves, coal depots and warehouses there on the Pacific coast. He is president of the company.