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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. 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, and the town of Seabrook, New Jersey is named after him. Provided by Wikipedia
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