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Title: Indian wars and pioneers of Texas
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Brown, John Henry, 1820-1895
Subjects: Indians of North America Frontier and pioneer life Indians of North America
Publisher: Austin : L.E. Daniel)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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eand life insurance business, which he followed until1893 and then retired from active business pur-suits. He married in Germany and was the fatherof nine children, four of whom are living: Otto,Wilhelmina, Emilie, and Edward. Otto, the oldest,was born in Germany, March 5, 1843; Wilhelmina,wife of Max Krakauer, was born in San Antonio,September 8, 1847, and has three sons and twodaughters; Emilie, wife of Julius Piper, born No-vember 14, 1852, has four sons and three daughters,and Edward the youngest was born January 16,1855, and has one son and one daughter. All thechildren live in San Antonio. Otto Moye, the eldest, reoe-ved a good commonschool education and for eighteen years was identi-fied, as salesmen, with one of San Antonios whole-sale hardware houses. Edward married, October31, 1882, Miss Lillie, daughter of Louis Zork, whowas the pioneer dry goods merchant of San Antonio.Mr. Edward Moye is a member of the well-knownmercantile firm of Krakauer, Zork & Moye, of SanAntonio.
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Errg^iy WT.Batfter. BKtj-nWV >^^-^L-£C3 INDIAN WARS AND PIONEERS OF TEXAS. 225 HON. JOHN CALDWELL, BASTROP. The Anglo-American settlement of Texas, tberevolution that followed and the establishment of aseparate republic and its merger into the sisterhoodof States that compose the Union, offered unex-ampled opportunities for the exercise of the purestpatriotism, the most intrepid bravery and the high-est mental endowments in the line of statecraft.Nor were the men wanting to fill the various rolesrequired to meet the necessities of those stormy andtrying days. Few States, formed in either ancient or moderntimes, can boast a galaxy of greater names, in thesame period of time, than those which adorn thepages of the early history of Texas. The subject of this memoir, Hon. John Caldwell,moved among the leading spirits of his day. He came to Texas from North Alabama in 1831,as a member of a considerable company of peoplewho came at the same time from the same localitj. He brought with

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