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Immigrant with 75 cents started Spreckels
The San Francisco mansion in Pacific Heights built by Adolph Spreckels and is now owned by romance novelist Danielle Steel.
One of the sweetest immigrant success stories ever helped provide decent livings for generations of Manteca families and provided area farmers steady incomes for 78 years.
Claus Spreckels born in a small village in what is now modern-day Germany on July 9, 1828 was a farmhand thrown out of work by crop failure and political upheaval when he immigrated to the United States in 1848. When he arrived in Charleston, South Carolina at age 20 he could speak no English and had only 75 cents to his name. ....

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