The Thousand Islands, George Fischer - excerpt

Boldt

lived one of America’s greatest rags-to-riches stories.

He was only 13 when he emigrated to America from the small Prussian island of Rügen and started his career by working in hotel kitchens throughout New York City. A few years later, he met and

married Louise Kehrer. He soon became the millionaire proprietor of New York City’s Waldorf Astoria and the 108

Bellevue-Stratford Hotel in Philadelphia. Together, he and his wife revolutionized the hotel industry.