Ludovicus Stornebrink (sometimes written as ''Ludowicus'' and also known as ''Louis Stornebrink''), was the founder of the Yokohama Ice Works in

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. Stornebrink was born on 15 March 1847 in

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and moved to Japan at an early age. In 1879 he became the founder and owner of the Yokohama Ice Works, Yokohama's first ice factory. Stornebrink married a Japanese wife, Hana Ohta, and they had four children. Stornebrink died on 17 September 1917 and is buried, together with his wife, who died the following year, at the Foreign General Cemetery in Yokohama. His sister, Gertrude Stornebrink (21 February 1851-September 1923) is buried in the same grave.

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information about Stornebrink and the Ice Works (Japanese)
* ttp://oldphoto.lb.nagasaki-u.ac.jp/en/target.php?id=3133 picture of the original Ice Works {{DEFAULTSORT:Stornebrink, Ludovicus 1847 births 1917 deaths 19th-century Japanese businesspeople Dutch emigrants to Japan