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German pioneer, Texas state senator (1812-1897) Baron Otfried Hans John Von Meusebach (26 May 1812 - 27 May 1897)
John O. Meusebach 2002 A German immigrant who came to Texas in 1843, Meusebach negotiated, wrote, and signed the famous Meusebach Comanche Treaty in 1847, opening up over 3,000,000 acres of land beyond the San Saba River for colonization.
John O. Meusebach, born Otfried Hans Freiherr von Meusebach, was at first a Prussian bureaucrat, later an American farmer and politician who served in the Texas Senate, District 22.
ISBN. 0292736568, 9780292736566. Length. 192 pages. Export Citation. BiBTeX EndNote RefMan. This is the story of Otfried Hans Freiherr von Meusebach, a German aristocrat, who relinquished his hereditary German title, left behind his close family ties, and arrived in Texas as John O. Meusebach, commissioner-general for the Society for the ...
Meusebach died at Loyal Valley in 1897 and was buried nearby at Cherry Springs. For more information on John Meusebach, see the following books. King, Irene Marschall. John O. Meusebach. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1967. Thousand Miles in Texas on Horseback.
By adding this information to that which I King_5072.pdf 9 11/26/2013 5:45:37 PM viii John O. Meusebach had secured from various other sources, I believed that I could write the Meusebach story in a way to interest the family living today.
The Homesite of John O. Meusebach is located at Loyal Valley in Mason County, Texas, 21 miles (34 km) north of Fredericksburg and 18 miles (29 km) southeast of the city of Mason, on U.S. Highway 87 to right-of-way at the intersection of US 87 and RM 2242. Meusebach moved to the property in 1869, after a tornado destroyed his family home in ...
