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BIOGRAPHICAL
release of the prisoners, which was at length conceded.
During the expedition he was the author
and advocate of the celebrated "Turtle Bayou resolutions,"
which declared fidelity to the Constitution
and laws of Mexico, but demanded in clear,
explicit terms, the rights and liberties of the citizens-the
first public, distinct declaration of the
colonists against Mexican oppression. Later in 1832,
on the return of Stephen F. Austin from Saltillo,
he welcomed him home, in behalf of the colonists
at San Felipe, in a public address to the "Friend
and Father of his Country." He was a private
trooper with the Texas command that captured
Goliad. He joined the army which went forward
for the assault of San Antonio, and was appointed
by Austin major and brigade inspector. In the
battle of San Jacinto he fought in the ranks as a
private soldier. He was Secretary of State of the
Republic under President Burnett. He was Representative
and Senator in the Congress of the Republic
almost continuously from 1836 to 1844, He
died August 20, 1844.
,IMPELMAN, GEORGE BERNHARD, in*^:^H
surance and land agent of Austin, Texas,
is of foreign birth and extraction, having
,q-e.4 Qbeen born in Bavaria July 24, 1832, at
which place his father, John Jacob Zimpelman,
was born and resided, and where he died in 1857,
a successful, influential and respected farmer. His
mother, Maria Salome Hochdoeffer, . was also a
native of Bavaria and daughter of Valentine Hochdoeffer,
a farmer of that locality. The subject of
this memoir was reared in Bavaria until about the
age of fourteen. His early education was libtral,
and obtained at the best classical schools. In 1846 he
came to America and settled in New Orleans, where
he remained about one year, engaged as a clerk in
a dry goods store. Some time in the year 1847 he
came to Texas, locating in Austin, where he has
since resided. His first employment after his arrival
at Austin was at the carpenter trade, a pursuit
he followed assiduously, first as an apprentice
and then as a master, up to 1854. In that year he
abandoned that trade, and began learning the trade
of a gunsmith, at which occupation he continued
for nearly two years. In 1856 he located on a
stock farm in the vicinity of Austin, and was engaged
in agriculture and stock raising until the
breaking out of the war in 1861. He promptlyresponded to the call of his country, entering the'
Confederate service as a private in Colonel Terry's:
Texas rangers, and remained in the army, a brave,
and faithful soldier, until the close of the conflict,
actively participating in many skirmishes and in
many of the great battles of the war. The theaters
of operations, to which that branch of the service
he was in was, confined, were the most sanguinary
and stubbornly contested of all in that,
bloody encounter, numbering the great battles that.
General Sidney Johnson, General Joe Johnston,
General Bragg and General Hood, fought on tilhe
soil of Kentucky and Carolinas, Alabama, Georgia,
Mississippi and Tennessee. He was wounded
nine times-at Murfreesboro, Shelbyville, Corinth,
Shiloh, Chickamauga, and three times at Atlanta,
where he was taken prisoner. His military career
was illustrious, and made more conspicuous by his
persistent refusal to be promoted. Men ambitious.
for distinction may perform " feats of arms " and
be "prodigies of valor;" but the brave and unos-.
tentatious private in the ranks ever merits the
admiration and gratitude of his countrymen. Mr.
Zimnpelmnan in his military experience exhibited in
an uncommon degree the qualities of a true soldier.
When the Confederacy, from sheer exhaustion,,
laid down its arms, and the remnants of its grand
armies returned to their homes and the pursuits of
peace, he sought his stock farm near Austin, and
followed farming and stock raising 'until 1866,
when he was elected Sheriff of Travis county, but.
was deposed by military authority, emanating from
the Radical Provisional State Government, set up
in pursuance of the reconstruction policy of Congress.
This unlawful military interference in time
came to an end, and in 1869 Mr. Zimpelman was
a second time elected Sheriff, and discharged the'
duties of that office, being re-elected in 1871 and
again in 1873, up to 1876. In that year he turned
his attention to the banking business as a member'
of the banking house of Foster, Ludlow
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