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Facts and Events
Died 1861, a victim of Indian barbarity. He was a civil engineer by
profession. He surveyed the German colony in Texas, at that time some
250 miles from any settlement, among hostile Indians where he experienced
many hair-breath escapes. A correspondent writes, "He was one of the
finest-looking men I ever saw." At the commencement of the rebellion he
was traveling in on e of the mail coaches from San Antonio to California,
when the U.S. troops we re recalled from the frontier, and he, and all his
company were massacred byt he Indians. One of his boots and a glove was
all that was found to tell of his sad fate.
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