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406 Wir THE MAKERS OF SAN ANTONIO
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and Caroline Ebhardt; Hugo and
and Heda had: Joan Louise, and
Hugo, Jr. Hugo m. 2nd, Caroline
Moureau, Heda’s sister, by whom:
Robert and Ernest.
ix Two daughters, d. y.
4 Edward, architect; studi in Ger-
many; m. Mary Staffel, sis. of Em-
my (m. Harry Trebus), daughters of
Heino Staffel by his wife, a daughter
of Dr. Peter William Leopold Wueste,
by his wife, Louise Heuser (1803-1875),
the artist (see Yanaguana Soc. ‘‘Cat-
alogue of Old S. A. Paintings,’’? 1933).
Edward Elmendorf and Mary had:
i Stella, m. Mr. Tylor, by whom:
Elizabeth (Chicago).
ii Armin.
iii Tom, father of Thomas Edward
and a daughter who was living in
Galveston.
5 Emma, d. Oct. 19, 1880; m. Albert
Lauterborn, from Bonn, Ger-
many:
i. Emmy, m. Eugene M. Francis.
6 Mary, m. Dec. 1884, Benno Engelke,
jeweler, succeeded by E. Hertzberg in
April 1879. Mary and Benno had:
i Edgar, m. Emmy Schultze.
ii Albert George, m. Sarah, .daugh-
ter of Dr. Frederick Terrell, by
Proms Marion and Albert George,
Yr.
qT Emilie, m. Dr. William Netter:
i Emily, librarian.
WURZBACH
Baron Karl Wurzbach von Tannenberg
was the head of the family in Europe,
1809-1886. The history of this family is
given in Vol. 59 of Wurzbach’; ‘“‘Biogra-
phiches Lexikon des Kaisertums Oester-
reich,” Vienna, 1855-1891. Dr. Wolfgang
Wurzbach, Ritter von Tannenberg, Jofrat
and University professor, in a letter dat-
ed Vienna, Aug. 5, 193i, states that the
Wurzbach family of Texas are descend-
ed from John Jonathan Wurzbach of
Mannheim, through Franz Justus, Jus-
tus Daniel or Jacob Wurzbach.
“During the Thirty Years War, there
were two brothers of the family. One es-
poused the Catholic, and the other the
Protestant cause. The ’Protestant was
deprived of his titles and vast estates,
and they were conferred upon his brother.
Thereupon the champion of the Protestant
cause removed to the Rheinish pro-
vinces, where, among friends, he might
be secure from further persecution.”
From this branch was descended John
Jonathan ‘Wurzbach, public teacher in
Mannheim, 1789.
1. Jacob Daniel Wurzbach, native
of Mannheim, Baden, was the first
engineer who carried. a steamboat
from the lower to the upper
Rhine. He was a civil engineer
for the German Emigration So-
ciety. He m. Louisa Schindler,
daughter of an eminent Protest-
ant minister in Saxony, whose
ancestors for (generations were
Protestant divines. The Wurzbach
family (they had two sons, both
b. at Mannheim), arrived at Gal-
veston Feb. 14, 1844. Mrs. Wurz-
bach did not like living in Gal-
veston, so Mr. Wurzbach proceed-
ed to the mainland to see the
country before moving his fam-
ily. He was employed by the Fisch-
er and Mueller Colony and did not
return to Galveston for some
time. He and his family finally
took ship to Indian Point, where
they joined the emigrants to Fred-
ericksburg, Mr. Wurzbach being
placed in command of: the party.
They made the long trip with ox
teams, arriving in Fredericksburg
in the latter part of 1846. When
they got to New Braunfels, one
man’s wife died, and the next
morning when crossing the river,
the man threw her corpse into
the water, leaving it to float down
the stream. Mrs. Wurzbach .d. in
Fredericksburg in 1847. Jacob
Wurzbach decided to return to
Germany, but just as he was ready
to sail at Indian Point, a big
storm came up and the fathe
shook his head and said they
would go back to San Antonio.
This was in 1849. Jacob Wurzbach
was for 28 years superintendant
of the irrigation. system of San
Antonio, when he opened the old
Spanish acequias and_ perfected
the system. He died in April, 1879,
aged 75 years. He was “a man of
public spirit aud private virtue.”