He was the patriarch of the Trump family and the paternal grandfather of the 45th and 47th U. In , he began speculating in real estate in Seattle. During the Klondike Gold Rush , he moved to the Yukon and made his fortune by operating a restaurant and a brothel for miners in Whitehorse.
In , Trump returned to Kallstadt and married Elisabeth Christ. As he had purportedly immigrated to the United States in order to evade conscription, the Bavarian Government stripped him of his citizenship in Consequently, he returned to the United States with his family.
Trump worked as a barber and manager of a hotel and was beginning to acquire real estate in Queens when he died in the flu pandemic. Trump's earliest known male ancestor is Johann Philipp Drumpft or Trump —, parents or place of birth not recorded , who married Juliana Maria Rodenroth. The first link to Kallstadt can be established for Johann Sebastian's grandson Johannes Trump — who was born in Bobenheim am Berg and married in Kallstadt, where he also died. In , Bavaria became a part of the newly formed German Empire.
During periods of war and anti-German discrimination in the United States, Trump's son Fred later denied his German heritage, claiming his father had been a Swede from Karlstad , Sweden. After being sick with emphysema for 10 years, Trump's father, Christian Johannes, died on July 6, , at the age of 48, leaving the family in severe debt from medical expenses. Trump worked seven days a week for two and a half years under barber Friedrich Lang.
After completing his apprenticeship , he returned to Kallstadt, a village with about 1, inhabitants. He quickly discovered there was not enough business to earn a living. He was also approaching the age of eligibility for conscription to military service in the Imperial German Army. He quickly decided to immigrate to the United States , later saying, "I agreed with my mother that I should go to America.
