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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 edition. Excerpt: ...of Bellville, and he was one of the county's earliest settlers and a pioneer in the tin business here. He served in the Confederacy during the Civil war, a member of the Home Guard, and Charles A. Matthaei was also a Confederate soldier. Joining the volunteer infantry from Austin county, he served in Mississippi and Vicksburg until taken prisoner by Grant's army in the Yazoo Valley, and he was confined on Johnson's Island in Lake Erie for eleven months. He returned to Texas at the close of the war. He was a life-long agriculturist, and he also served Austin county for six terms or twelve years as tax collector and also for a time as deputy sheriff. He resided in New York during the years of 1869-70, and he died in Austin county on the 17th of September, 1888. Wolfgang A. Matthaei was reared on the home farm in Austin county, attending in the meantime its public schools, and he then began the preparation for his chosen profession of the law. He was married in 1894 to Rose A. Goddu, a daughter of J. B. Goddu of Massachusetts, and their four children are Evangeline Rose, Beatrice, Carl Arnold and Rose Edith. He is a member m high standing of the Masonic fraternity, affiliating with Bellville Lodge No. 223, A. F. & A. M., with Bellville Chapter No. 151, R. A. M., Brenham Commandery No. 15. K. T., and with El Mina Shrine of Galveston. JOHN CHARLES Amsuan is prominently known in central and western Texas as a manufacturer of cotton seed products, and his ancestors for many generations back were also identified with the milling business, both in their native country of Switzerland and in America. The Amsler family was founded in Texas by Charles Conrad Amsler, who came from Switzerland in 1833, and located at Cat Springs in...