Charles F. Seabrook

Charles Franklin Seabrook (28 May 1881 – 1964), known professionally as C.F. Seabrook, was an American businessman and owner of Seabrook Farms, a family-owned frozen vegetable packing plant in New Jersey that at one point was the largest irrigated truck farm in the world.[1][2] Seabrook Farms became famous for recruiting Japanese Americans from internment camps beginning in January 1944 and other immigrants displaced from World War II. He was nicknamed the "Henry Ford of agriculture" by B.C. Forbes, the founder of Forbes magazine,[3][4] and the town of Seabrook, New Jersey is named after him.

  1. ^ Frank Leslie; Miriam Florence (Folline) Leslie; Ellery Sedgwick; John Sanborn Phillips; John MacAlpine Siddall (1921). American Magazine. Frank Leslie Publishing House. p. 4.
  2. ^ Brian Greenberg; Linda S. Watts; Richard A. Greenwald; Gordon Reavley; Alice L. George; Scott Beekman; Cecelia Bucki; Mark Ciabattari; John C. Stoner; Troy D. Paino; Laurie Mercier; Andrew Hunt; Peter C. Holloran; Nancy Cohen (October 23, 2008). Social History of the United States. ABC-CLIO. p. 3. ISBN 978-1-59884-128-2.
  3. ^ John M. Seabrook (1995). The Henry Ford of Agriculture: Charles F. Seabrook 1881–1964 and Seabrook Farms 1893–1959. Seabrook Educational and Cultural Center.
  4. ^ Charles H. Harrison, Growing a Global Village: Making History at Seabrook Farms (New York: Holmes & Meier Publishers, Inc., 2003), 8.