In Memory of
Otfrid Hans Freiherr von Meusebach
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Marker Text: Born at Dillenburg, Nassau, Germany. May 26, 1812.
Commissioner-General of the Society for the Protection of German Immigrants in Texas, who became a citizen of the Republic of Texas under the name of John O. Meusebach. Founder of Fredericksburg on May 8, 1846. On March 1-2, 1847, he negotiated with 20 Comanche chiefs a treaty of peace which protected the German frontier settlements from Indian raids. State senator in 1851. Appointed commissioner for the "Colony of the German Emigration Company" by Governor Pease to distribute headrights to the colonists of the German Emigration Company in 1854. Founder of the town of Loyal Valley where he died, May 27, 1897. (1936) |
Marker No: 14410
Centennial Era Statue
Geographic: 30° 16.561′ N, 98° 52.373′ W
Location: North of West Main Street in Market Square Park