Frederick Snare
Frederick Snare | |
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| Born | Frederick Snare December 4, 1862 |
| Died | September 27, 1946 |
| Nationality |  American |
| Occupation | Architect |
| Children | Frederick Snare Jr. |
| Practice | Snare & Triest Company of New York Frederick Snare Corporation |
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Frederick Snare (born December 4, 1862 - September 27, 1946) American-born engineer and international construction contractor.[1]
Early history
Frederick Snare was born on December 4, 1862, in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania.[2]
Career
After an unsuccessful contracting business in Huntingdon, he relocated to Philadelphia and established a new contracting firm.[3] Frederick Snare and W. G. Triest created the Snare & Triest Company in 1898, and it grew to become one of Latin America's major contractual engineering firms.[4] The Snare & Triest Company was incorporated in 1900, with Snare as the President.[5] The Snare & Triest Company became the Frederick Snare Corporation. The privately owned company operated in New York, Havana, Buenos Aires, and the Panama Canal Zone. It built much of Havana's early infrastructure, including highways and the National Baseball Stadium.[6] By the mid-1910s, the Snare & Triest Company was constructing streetcar railways in Havana.[7] His company was engaged in the work of constructing Havana's Víbora Sub Station in 1918.[8]
In 1911, he constructed a country club after a group of American and British residents, led by Snare, arrived in Havana and purchased an estate in the Marianao municipality. The original country club that Snare had established was renamed the Havana Biltmore Yacht and Country Club by the 1930s.[9]
Death
Frederick Snare died on September 22, 1946, at the Anglo-American Hospital in Havana, Cuba.[2]
References
- ^ "CUBA: Snare Jubilee | Monday, Feb. 17, 1936". time.com. Retrieved 2024-05-19.
- ^ a b "Frederick Snare Sr. | Find A Grave". findagrave.com. Retrieved 2024-05-19.
- ^ "FREDERICK SNARE, BRIDGE BUILDER, 83; Founder of Contracting Firm Dies--Former Senior Golf Leader, Honored by Cuba". nytimes.com. Retrieved 2024-05-19.
- ^ "American Photo Company photographs of the Port of Havana construction". ufdc.ufl.edu. Retrieved 2024-05-19.
- ^ "The Snake & Triest Company | Marine Link". nytimes.com. Retrieved 2024-05-19.
- ^ LIPMAN, JANA K. Guantánamo: A Working-Class History between Empire and Revolution. 1st ed., University of California Press, 2009. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1pnm8n. Accessed 18 May 2024.
- ^ "Construction of streetcar railways in Havana, Cuba by the Snare & Triest Company". digitalcollections.library.miami.edu. Retrieved 2024-05-19.
- ^ "Construction of the Víbora Terminal in Havana, Cuba". digitalcollections.library.miami.edu. Retrieved 2024-05-19.
- ^ "The History of El Laguito Cigar Factory in Havana". cndenglish.com. Retrieved 2024-05-19.