The State of Texas. County of Kerr : Be it remembered that the marks and brand of Wm. Hureman [as printed] & Theodor Deissethorst (as a Company) residing on Cypress Creek near Comfort are as follows to wit: ...
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| Format: | Manuscript |
| Language: | English |
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[Kerrville] :
[producer not identified],
[1856]
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| Item Description: | The Cushing Library/Chapman Texas Collection copy is part of the Floyd & Louise Chapman Texas & Borderlands Collection. Title from caption and beginning text. Remainder of text: " ... brand thus HD ear marks smooth crop off of the left ear and split in the right. Being the only marks and brands claimed and used in the marking and branding of their stock and which they this day present for the record in the office of the Clerk of the County Court of said County in accordance with the law regulating the marking and branding of stock." Docketing on verso. "A manuscript registration certificate for the cattle brand of William Heuermann and Theodore Diesselhorst, German immigrants to Texas in the 1850s. In addition to being a scarce, early example of a Texas cattle brand registration, the certificate is also a document of the early business activities of William Heuermann, who later owned property in San Antonio on the site of the Alamo. Heuermann was born in 1828 and immigrated to Texas from Prussia, settling in the Hill Country, near the town of Comfort. He served in the Confederate forces during the Civil War, moved to San Antonio in the early 1870s, and entered the wholesale grocery business, soon joining the partnership of Hugo & Schmeltzer. In 1883, the firm purchased from the estate of French merchant Honoré Grenet the grounds of the Alamo on which a large store and warehouse had been constructed, directly adjacent to the mission building itself. The firm continued to own the grounds until the state of Texas, with the assistance of Clara Driscoll and the Daughters of the Texas Revolution, purchased the land for $75,000 in 1905, five years after Heuermann's death. An excellent confluence of several strands of Texas history in one document."--Vendor's description. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 sheet ; 23 x 20 cm |