Mary Anne MacLeod Trump

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Mary Anne MacLeod Trump
Màiri Anna Nic Leòid Trump
MacLeod in 1935
Born
Mary Anne MacLeod

(1912-05-10)May 10, 1912
Tong, Lewis, Scotland
DiedAugust 7, 2000(2000-08-07) (aged 88)
New Hyde Park, New York, U.S.
Burial placeLutheran All Faiths Cemetery, New York City
Citizenship
Spouse
​
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(m. 1936; died 1999)​
Children

Mary Anne Trump (

Scottish Gaelic: Màiri Anna Nic Leòid [ˈmaːɾʲɪ ˈan̪ˠa ɲiçkʲ ˈʎɔːtʲ]; May 10, 1912 – August 7, 2000) was the wife of real-estate developer Fred Trump and the mother of Donald Trump
, the 45th president of the United States.

Born in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland, Mary Trump emigrated to the U.S. in 1930 and became a naturalized citizen in March 1942.[1] She raised five children with her husband and lived in the New York area.[2]

Early life

Mary Anne MacLeod was born in a

compulsory officer at Mary's school.[4][1][6][7] English was her second language, which she learned at the school she attended until secondary school.[4]

Her paternal grandparents were Alexander MacLeod and Ann MacLeod; her maternal grandparents were Donald Smith and Mary

South Lochs, respectively.[8] Donald died at sea aged 34 when his sailing ship sank, a common fate for men in the region which was dependent on fishing.[9] Some of the family's earlier generations had been forced off their land as part of the Highland Clearances.[10] According to one genealogical account, displaced families in Mary's village lived in "human wretchedness" while nearby farmable land was used for sheep.[11] Local historians have said properties at the time were "indescribably filthy", and that families in the area lived austere lives as fishers, farmers and peat diggers.[9] The outbreak of World War I weakened the area's economy and reduced the male population further.[4]

Immigration to the United States

With several siblings having already established themselves there,

RMS Transylvania arriving in New York City on May 11 (one day after her 18th birthday). She declared she intended to become a U.S. citizen and would be staying permanently in America.[1][6][7] She was one of tens of thousands of young Scots who left for the U.S. or Canada during this period, Scotland having suffered badly the consequences of the Clearances and World War I.[8][10] The alien passenger list of the Transylvania lists her occupation as a domestic worker.[4][12]

1940 U.S. Census.[13]

Though the 1940 census form filed by Mary Anne and her husband, Fred Trump, stated that she was a naturalized citizen, she did not actually become one until March 10, 1942.[1][6][7] However, there is no evidence that she violated any immigration laws prior to her naturalization, as she frequently traveled internationally and was afterwards able to re-enter the U.S.[14] MacLeod returned to her home area in Scotland often during the course of her life and spoke Gaelic when she did.[8]

Marriage, family and activities

In the mid-1930s, while Mary Anne was living with her sister in Queens, she met Fred Trump—already a property developer and builder—at a party;

Elizabeth (born 1942), Donald (born 1946), and Robert (1948–2020).[1][6][7][17] The final birth led to an emergency hysterectomy, which she barely survived.[4]

A black-and-white photograph of son Donald Trump as a teenager, smiling and wearing a dark pseudo-military uniform with various badges and a light-colored stripe crossing his right shoulder
Senior yearbook photo of son Donald Trump (1964)
photo of daughter Maryanne Trump Barry testifying at the confirmation of Samuel Alito, 2006.
Daughter Maryanne Trump Barry testifying at the confirmation of Samuel Alito (2006)

The family lived in

Jamaica Estates.[1][2] At first, the couple lived in the house of MacLeod's mother-in-law;[18] however, by 1940, the couple, having moved out, had begun an upwardly mobile existence, having taken on a Scottish domestic servant for their own household.[19] MacLeod generally worked as a housewife
within the family, but sometimes helped with her husband's real estate business, such as collecting coins from laundry machines in family-owned apartment buildings.

MacLeod raised her children in the

vanity plates "MMT", the initials of her name, Mary MacLeod Trump.[4]

MacLeod also acted as a volunteer in a hospital and was involved in school activities and charities,

Salvation Army, the Boy Scouts of America, and the Lighthouse for the Blind, among other charities.[2] MacLeod had a significant role at the Women's Auxiliary of Jamaica Hospital and likewise at the Jamaica Day Nursery.[2] She and her husband donated time, effort, services, and several medical buildings around New York;[2][21] a 228-bed nursing home pavilion at Jamaica Hospital Medical Center, where she spent years volunteering, is named after her.[21] MacLeod also belonged to several social clubs.[1][4]

As a parent, MacLeod was more reserved than her husband. Friends of the children observed fewer interactions with her than with him.[4] In appearance, MacLeod was slight of build but was known for an elaborate hairstyle, labeled in one account a "dynamic orange swirl", similar to the hairstyle her son Donald would later become known for.[1]

In 1981, Mary Anne MacLeod's oldest son, Fred C Trump Jr., died from complications due to alcoholism.[22]

Later life and death

As she grew older, Trump suffered from severe

brain hemorrhage, and permanent damage to her sight and hearing.[24][25] A bread-truck driver named Lawrence Herbert apprehended Paul LoCasto, her 16-year-old assailant, for which Herbert was later rewarded by Donald Trump with a check that kept him from losing his home to foreclosure.[7][26] LoCasto later pleaded guilty to robbery and assault, and was sentenced to three to nine years in prison.[27]

Mary Anne's husband, Fred Trump, died at age 93 on June 25, 1999, after falling ill with pneumonia.[28] She died one year later on August 7, 2000, at Long Island Jewish Medical Center in New Hyde Park, New York, at age 88.[2] Services were held at Marble Collegiate Church in Manhattan[23] and she was buried alongside her husband and son (Fred Jr.) at Lutheran All Faiths Cemetery in Middle Village, Queens.[29] The death notice in her Scottish hometown newspaper, the Stornoway Gazette, read: "Peacefully in New York on 7th August, Mary Ann [sic] Trump, aged 88 years. Daughter of the late Malcolm and Mary MacLeod, 5 Tong. Much missed."[7]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Pilon, Mary (June 24, 2016). "Donald Trump's Immigrant Mother". The New Yorker. Retrieved November 19, 2016. on March 10, 1942, the U.S. District Court in Brooklyn made Mary Trump a naturalized citizen
  2. ^ a b c d e f "Mary MacLeod Trump Philanthropist, 88". The New York Times. August 9, 2000. Retrieved May 25, 2017.
  3. ^ Reid, Tony; Reid, Stuart; et al. (January 30, 2017). "People: Donald Trump". ScottishRoots.com. Edinburgh, SCT. Retrieved August 20, 2018.
  4. ^
    Politico Magazine
    . Retrieved November 4, 2017.
  5. ISBN 978-1-68330-237-7
    .
  6. ^ a b c d e f g h Hannan, Martin (May 20, 2016). "The mysterious Mary Trump". The National. Retrieved November 19, 2016.
  7. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Hannan, Martin (May 20, 2016). "An inconvenient truth? Donald Trump's Scottish mother was a low-earning migrant". The National. Retrieved November 19, 2016.
  8. ^ a b c d Brocklehurst, Steven (November 6, 2017). "Trump's mother: From a Scottish island to New York's elite". BBC News. Retrieved November 6, 2017.
  9. ^
    ISBN 978-1-5011-5652-6
    – via Google Books.
  10. ^ a b Nic Robertson; Antonia Mortensen (November 2, 2016). "Donald Trump's Scottish roots". CNN. Retrieved November 6, 2017.
  11. ISBN 978-1-4668-4042-3
    – via Google Books.
  12. ^ "Alien Passenger list -SS Transylvania, May 2, 1930" – via FamilySearch.
  13. ^ a b "Mary Anne Macleod Trump Biography; Mother of Donald Trump". BiographyTree. September 30, 2016. Retrieved August 20, 2018.
  14. ^ "Fact Check: Was Donald Trump's Mother an Illegal Immigrant?". Snopes.com. January 30, 2017. Retrieved November 6, 2017.
  15. ISBN 978-1-5011-5578-9
    .
  16. ^
    ISBN 978-1-5011-3936-9
    .
  17. ^ Phillips, Morgan (August 14, 2020). "Robert Trump, brother of President Trump, dead at 71". Fox News. Retrieved August 15, 2020.
  18. ^ Marzlock, Ron (March 3, 2016). "Trump's Queens home". Queens Chronicle.
  19. ^ "Pictured: Donald Trump inherited his mother Mary's hairstyle, plus much more". News.com.au. February 24, 2017.
  20. ^ Meyer, Holly (January 17, 2017). "What Bible did Donald Trump use on Inauguration Day?". The Tennesean.
  21. ^ a b Pilon, Mary (June 14, 2017). "Life at Trump Pavilion". The New Republic.
  22. ^ Collman, Ashley (April 11, 2019). "Meet Donald Trump's siblings, the oldest of whom just retired as a federal judge". Business Insider. Retrieved August 8, 2019.
  23. ^ a b Moritz, Owen (August 9, 2000). "Trump family matriarch dead at 88". New York Daily News.
  24. ^ Brozan, Nadine (November 1, 1991). "Chronicle". The New York Times. Retrieved November 22, 2016.
  25. ^ "Update; Youth Is Sentenced In Robbery of Mrs. Trump". The New York Times. July 26, 1992. Retrieved November 22, 2016.
  26. ^ "Trump Makes the Holiday Brighter For New Yorker Who Rescued His Mother". Jet. Vol. 81, no. 11. Chicago, Illinois: Johnson Publishing Company. 1991. p. 8 – via Google Books.
  27. ^ "Update; Youth Is Sentenced In Robbery of Mrs. Trump". The New York Times. July 26, 1992.
  28. ^ Rozhon, Tracie (June 26, 1999). "Fred C. Trump, Postwar Master Builder of Housing for Middle Class, Dies at 93". The New York Times. Retrieved January 29, 2017.
  29. ^ Scovell, Nell (October 11, 2016). "A Visit to the Trump Family Gravesite Took a Very Trumpian Turn". Esquire.

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