George Stiebel (businessman)

George Stiebel (c. 1821–1896) was an Afro-European Jamaican trader and entrepreneur who became a millionaire from gold mining in South America.

[3] His parents were Sigismund Stiebel (1790-1859), a White Jew who emigrated from Germany and Eliza Catherine Bailey, a Jamaican of African and European [Mulatto] descent.

With the start-up capital that his father gave him in the 1840s, he was able to buy one and later two more ships and set up sea transport between North and South America.

He acquired 99 properties in Jamaica, including two sugar plantations, a wharf at Church Street, Great Salt Pond and a cattle pen at Minard in the Saint Ann's Bay District.

George Stiebel died on 29 June 1896 at Devon House with no close family members beside him, his death was witnessed by Theophilus Beanswell.