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John O. Meusebach, the Glossary

John O. Meusebach (May 26, 1812 – May 27, 1897), 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.^[1]

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Immigrants to the Republic of Texas
People from Dillenburg
People from the Texas Hill Country

Adelsverein

The Mainzer Adelsverein at Biebrich am Rhein (Verein zum Schutze Deutscher Einwanderer in Texas, "Society for the Protection of German Immigrants in Texas"), better known as the Mainzer Adelsverein ("Nobility Society of Mainz"), organized on April 20, 1842, was a colonial attempt to establish a new German settlement within the borders of Texas.

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Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg

Adolphe (Adolf Wilhelm August Karl Friedrich; 24 July 1817 – 17 November 1905) was Grand Duke of Luxembourg from 23 November 1890 to his death on 17 November 1905.

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Alaska

Alaska is a non-contiguous U.S. state on the northwest extremity of North America.

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Alaska Women's Hall of Fame

The Alaska Women's Hall of Fame (AWHF) recognizes women natives or residents of the U.S. state of Alaska for their significant achievements or statewide contributions.

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American Civil War

The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union.

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Anklam

Anklam, formerly known as Tanglim and Wendenburg, is a town in the Western Pomerania region of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in north-eastern Germany.

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Bar examination

A bar examination is an examination administered by the bar association of a jurisdiction that a lawyer must pass in order to be admitted to the bar of that jurisdiction.

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Bettina von Arnim

Bettina von Arnim (the Countess of Arnim) (4 April 178520 January 1859), born Elisabeth Catharina Ludovica Magdalena Brentano, was a German writer and novelist.

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Bettina, Texas

Bettina is a vanished community founded in 1847 by German immigrants as part of the Adelsverein colonization of the Fisher–Miller Land Grant in the U.S. state of Texas.

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Bexar County, Texas

Bexar County (or; Béxar) is a county in the U.S. state of Texas.

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Biebrich (Wiesbaden)

Biebrich is a borough of the city of Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany.

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Boston

Boston, officially the City of Boston, is the capital and most populous city in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States.

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Botany

Botany, also called plant science (or plant sciences), plant biology or phytology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology.

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Burchard Miller

Burchard Miller, was one of the many persons interested in the 1840s in securing land grants from the Republic of Texas for colonization enterprises.

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Burgomaster

Burgomaster (alternatively spelled burgermeister) is the English form of various terms in or derived from Germanic languages for the chief magistrate or executive of a city or town.

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Cameralism

Cameralism (German: Kameralismus) was a German science of public administration in the 18th and early 19th centuries that aimed at strong management of a centralized economy for the benefit mainly of the state.

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Camp Bullis

Camp Bullis Military Training Reservation is a U.S. Army training camp comprising in Bexar County, Texas, United States, just northwest of San Antonio.

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Cherry Spring, Texas

Cherry Spring is an unincorporated farming and ranching community established in 1852 in Gillespie County, in the U.S. state of Texas.

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Clausthal-Zellerfeld

Clausthal-Zellerfeld is a town in Lower Saxony, Germany.

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Comal County, Texas

Comal County is a county located on the Edwards Plateau in the U.S. state of Texas.

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Comanche

The Comanche or Nʉmʉnʉʉ (Nʉmʉnʉʉ, "the people") is a Native American tribe from the Southern Plains of the present-day United States.

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Coup d'état

A coup d'état, or simply a coup, is typically an illegal and overt attempt by a military organization or other government elites to unseat an incumbent leadership.

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Dillenburg

Dillenburg, officially Oranienstadt Dillenburg, is a town in Hesse's Gießen region in Germany. John O. Meusebach and Dillenburg are people from Dillenburg.

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Duchy of Nassau

The Duchy of Nassau (German: Herzogtum Nassau) was an independent state between 1806 and 1866, located in what is now the German states of Rhineland-Palatinate and Hesse.

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Elisha M. Pease

Elisha Marshall Pease (January 3, 1812 – August 26, 1883) was a Texas politician.

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Enchanted Rock

Enchanted Rock is a pink granite mountain located in the Llano Uplift about north of Fredericksburg, Texas and south of Llano, Texas, United States.

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Fayette County, Texas

Fayette County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas.

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Ferdinand Lindheimer

Ferdinand Jacob Lindheimer (May 21, 1801 – December 2, 1879) was a German Texan botanist who spent his working life on the American frontier.

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Fisher–Miller Land Grant

The Fisher–Miller Land Grant was part of an early colonization effort of the Republic of Texas.

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Fredericksburg, Texas

Fredericksburg (Friedrichsburg) is a city in and the seat of Gillespie County, Texas, United States.

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Freiherr

Freiherr (male, abbreviated as Frhr.), Freifrau (his wife, abbreviated as Frfr., literally "free lord" or "free lady") and Freiin (his unmarried daughters and maiden aunts) are designations used as titles of nobility in the German-speaking areas of the Holy Roman Empire and in its various successor states, including Austria, Prussia, Bavaria, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, etc.

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Friedrich Armand Strubberg

Friedrich Armand Strubberg (born Frédéric Armand Strubberg, March 18, 1806 in Kassel, Germany – April 3, 1889 in Linsengericht, Germany) was a merchant, physician, and pioneer colonist. John O. Meusebach and Friedrich Armand Strubberg are immigrants to the Republic of Texas.

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Galveston, Texas

Galveston is a coastal resort city and port off the Southeast Texas coast on Galveston Island and Pelican Island in the U.S. state of Texas.

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Geology

Geology is a branch of natural science concerned with the Earth and other astronomical objects, the rocks of which they are composed, and the processes by which they change over time.

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Harz

The Harz is a highland area in northern Germany.

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Henry Francis Fisher

Henry Francis Fisher (in German Heinrich Franz Fischer, 1805–1867) was a German Texan. John O. Meusebach and Henry Francis Fisher are immigrants to the Republic of Texas.

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Hermann Spiess

Hermann Spiess (c. 1818–1873) was co-founder of the Bettina, Texas commune in 1847.

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Hopi

The Hopi are Native Americans who primarily live in northeastern Arizona.

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Indianola, Texas

Indianola is a ghost town located on Matagorda Bay in Calhoun County, Texas, United States.

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Karl Hartwig Gregor von Meusebach

Karl Hartwig Gregor von Meusebach (6 June 1781 – 22 August 1847) was a German lawyer and literary scholar born in Voigtstedt, Thuringia.

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Leonie von Meusebach–Zesch

Leonie von Meusebach–Zesch (November 27, 1882 – July 7, 1944) was an American early 20th-century pioneer female dentist who practiced in Texas, Alaska, Arizona and California.

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Liverpool

Liverpool is a cathedral, port city and metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England.

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Llano River

The Llano River is a tributary of the Colorado River, about long, in Texas in the United States.

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Loyal Valley, Texas

Loyal Valley is an unincorporated farming and ranching community in the southwestern corner of Mason County, Texas, United States, that was established in 1858, and is north of Cherry Spring.

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Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg

Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg), also referred to as MLU, is a public research university in the cities of Halle and Wittenberg.

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Medina County, Texas

Medina County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas.

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Milam County, Texas

Milam County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas.

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Mississippi River

The Mississippi River is the primary river and second-longest river of the largest drainage basin in the United States.

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Natural science

Natural science is one of the branches of science concerned with the description, understanding and prediction of natural phenomena, based on empirical evidence from observation and experimentation.

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New Braunfels, Texas

New Braunfels is a city in Comal and Guadalupe counties in the U.S. state of Texas.

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New Orleans

New Orleans (commonly known as NOLA or the Big Easy among other nicknames) is a consolidated city-parish located along the Mississippi River in the southeastern region of the U.S. state of Louisiana.

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Ohio River

The Ohio River is a river in the United States.

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Parochial school

A parochial school is a private primary or secondary school affiliated with a religious organization, and whose curriculum includes general religious education in addition to secular subjects, such as science, mathematics and language arts.

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Peter Hansborough Bell

Peter Hansborough Bell (May 11, 1810Various sources give multiple dates in May 1810 and May 1812 for Bell's birth. Bell's gravestone uses a May 1812 date.March 8, 1898) was an American military officer and politician who served as the third Governor of Texas and represented the state for two terms in the United States House of Representatives.

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Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh is a city in and the county seat of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Potsdam

Potsdam is the capital and largest city of the German state of Brandenburg.

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Prince Carl of Solms-Braunfels

Prince Carl (Karl) of Solms-Braunfels (27 July 1812 – 13 November 1875) was a German prince and military officer in both the Austrian army and the cavalry of the Grand Duchy of Hesse. John O. Meusebach and prince Carl of Solms-Braunfels are American city founders and Prussian nobility.

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Prince Frederick of Prussia (1794–1863)

Prince Frederick William Louis of Prussia (Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig; 30 October 1794 – 27 July 1863) was a Prussian prince and military officer.

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Prussia

Prussia (Preußen; Old Prussian: Prūsa or Prūsija) was a German state located on most of the North European Plain, also occupying southern and eastern regions.

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Republic of Texas

The Republic of Texas (República de Tejas), or simply Texas, was a breakaway state in North America that existed from March 2, 1836, to February 19, 1846.

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Roßleben

Roßleben is a town and a former municipality in the Kyffhäuserkreis district, with a population of 4,885 (2017).

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Szczecin

Szczecin (Stettin; Stettin; Sedinum or Stetinum) is the capital and largest city of the West Pomeranian Voivodeship in northwestern Poland.

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Texas General Land Office

The Texas General Land Office (GLO) is a state agency of the U.S. state of Texas, responsible for managing lands and mineral rights properties that are owned by the state.

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Texas Germans

Texas Germans (Texas-Deutsche) are descendants of Germans who settled in Texas since the 1830s.

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Texas Senate

The Texas Senate is the upper house of the Texas Legislature, with the Texas House of Representatives being the lower house. John O. Meusebach and Texas Senate are Texas state senators.

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Texas Senate, District 22

District 22 of the Texas Senate is a senatorial district that currently serves all of Bosque, Comanche, Eastland, Erath, Ellis, Hamilton, Hill, Hood, McLennan, and Somervell counties and portions of Ellis and Tarrant counties in the U.S. state of Texas.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_O._Meusebach

Also known as Baron Otfried Hans Freiherr von Meusebach, Baron Otfried Hans von Meusebach, John Meusebach.

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See also

Immigrants to the Republic of Texas

People from Dillenburg

People from the Texas Hill Country

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