| LC control no. | no 89013384 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Tudor, Frederic, 1783-1864 |
| Birth date | 1783-09-04 |
| Death date | 1864-02-06 |
| Place of birth | Boston (Mass.) |
| Field of activity | Ice industry Entrepreneurship |
| Profession or occupation | Businessmen |
| Found in | Damon, J.W. The Havana ice-house controversy, or, Facts ... transactions between Frederic Tudor and John W. Damon, 1846. DAB (Tudor, Frederic; b. 1783; d. 1864) Cline-Ransome, Lesa. Of Walden Pond, 2022: title page (Henry David Thoreau, Frederic Tudor, and the pond between) author's note (Frederic Tudor was a struggling Boston entrepreneur when he dreamed up the idea of shipping ice harvested from New England to tropical climates ; his first attempts to sell ice in Havana, Cuba; Charleston, South Carolina; and the Caribbean were such financial failures that he was jailed for failure to repay his debts and ridiculed by Boston townspeople for what most considered a preposterous idea ; Tudor, however, reamined convinced that selling ice to India could turn his fortune around ; his inventive methods for storing the ice ensured that much of his harvest remained intact until it was ready to set sail on its maiden 14,000-mile voyage on May 12, 1834 ; of the 180 tons that left the Boston harbor, approximately 110 arrived in Calcutta on September 10 ; Sales were brisk, and for the first time ever, Tudor made a profit ; over the next decade, as the ice trade gained momentum, sources to harvest ice became increasingly scarce, and in the winter of 1846-47, Tudor bought the rights to begin harvesting on Walden Pond ; it was there that the worlds of Tudor and Thoreau intersected ; Tudor's ice business grew into a huge success and he revolutionized the ice industry until his death in 1864 at the age of 80 years old ; his innovations in shipping and insulation were used in the commercial ice harvesting industry for residential ice boxes in the United States, our early versions of refrigerators ; Tudor became known as "The Ice King") Wikipedia viewed Nov. 15, 2022 (Frederic Tudor (September 4, 1783 (Boston, Mass.) - February 6, 1864 (Boston, Mass.)) was an American businessman and merchant. Known as Boston's "Ice King", he was the founder of the Tudor Ice Company and a pioneer of the international ice trade in the early 19th century ; He 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) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederic_Tudor> |
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