15 Facts About Frederic Tudor

Frederic Tudor was an American businessman and merchant.

Frederic Tudor made a fortune shipping ice cut from New England ponds to ports in the Caribbean, Europe, and as far away as India and Hong Kong.

In 1806, Frederic Tudor bought his first brig, Favorite, to carry ice cut from his father's farm in Saugus 1,500 miles from Charlestown to Martinique.

However, in the subsequent year, Frederic Tudor realized severe financial losses on three shipments to Havana in the brig Trident.

Frederic Tudor had his first profits in 1810 when his gross sales amounted to about $7,400, then increasing to just short of $9,000; but of that, he received only $1,000 owing to the "villainous conduct" of his agent.

Frederic Tudor spent the next few years experimenting with various kinds of insulation.

Frederic Tudor constructed icehouses throughout the tropics and created a demand there for cold refreshments.

Frederic Tudor had three ice houses built in India for storage, in Calcutta, Bombay, and Madras.

Frederic Tudor began writing to her regularly, with the result that Frederic and Euphemia were married on January 2,1834.

Frederic Tudor Wharf is so named because it is where his ships departed.

The Tudors belonged to a prominent Boston Brahmin family, and Frederic inherited his family's grounds in Nahant, Massachusetts.

Frederic Tudor's oldest son, Frederic was an 1867 graduate of Harvard College and a member of one of the first graduating classes at St Paul's School.

The younger Frederic was the grandfather of the 20th-century watercolorist and book illustrator Tasha Tudor.

Frederic Tudor was born in Boston in 1915 and was named Starling Burgess for her father.

Frederic Tudor died in Boston at his house on the northwest corner of Beacon and Joy Streets on Saturday, February 6,1864.