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Spreckels Sugar Factory

Biography of Claus Spreckels

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Sources:

• Adler, Jacob, Claus Spreckels: The Sugar King in Hawaii (Mutual Publishing Paperback Series, Honolulu, HI, 1966).
• Anderson, Burton, America’s Salad Bowl: An Agricultural History of the Salinas Valley (Monterey County Historical Society, 2000).