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INDIAN WARS AND PIONEERS OF TEXAS.
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FELIX VANDERSTUCKEN,
FREDERICKSBURG,Is one of Fredericksburg's most enterprising and
substantial business men. He came to Texas in
1857 and located on a ranch in Mason County and
engaged in stock-raising for about seven years. In
1864 he closed out his stock interests and removed
to Fredericksburg and purchased the Fredericksburg
Flour Mills. He operated these mills until
about 1889, when he renovated the entire outfit,
transforming it into a complete roller mill of
seventy-five barrels capacity, the product of which
is the highest grade in quality and finds a ready
domestic market. Mr. Vanderstucken has been
twice married and has seven children. He has
taken an active part in local affairs, both business
and educational; has served several years as
County Commissioner of Gillespie County; was one
of the organizers and is now one of the Directors
of the Gillespie County Fair Association, and has
served a number of terms as Trustee of the Fredericksburg
Public Schools. A brother of Mr.
Vanderstucken, Frank Vanderstucken, was one of
the original Texas pioneers, coming to the country,
in company with De Castro, when a boy of only
fifteen years of age. He met Castro in Antwerp,
where his father, Frank Vanderstucken, Sr., then
lived, and where Frank Vanderstucken, Jr., was
born.
De Castro saw in the lad the elements of asuccessful pioneer, the making of a man of great
enterprise, energy and daring, and, therefore, insisted
on bringing him to Texas where those manly
qualities could not fail to find full scope for development.
On reaching Texas, the spirit of improvement
and progress took full possession of the young
pioneer and he promptly engaged in various enterprises,
such as the building of forts, etc., under
government contracts. At the opening of the war
between the States he, with Henry Runge, held
government freight contracts for the State of 'rexas.
He served four years in the First Texas Cavalry,
Confederate army, and distinguished himself as
the " Dutch Captain," being in command of a com
pany. He served with great bravery, taking part
in the memorable battles of Mansfield and Pleasant
Hill, Louisiana, and other engagements. After
the war he returned to Antwerp, his native city in
Belgium, and engaged in the milling business and
there attained a position of business, political and
local prominence and amassed a large fortune. He
married in Texas, Miss Sophia Scheonerwolf, of
Fredericksburg, and they have four children, all
born in Fredericksburg. One son, Frank, Jr., a
musical composer of world-wide celebrity, was recently
at the head of the Orion Club, of New York
City, but is now at the head of the profession in
Cincinnati, Ohio.ANTONE KOCH,
BOERNE,Was born in Baden, Germany, in 1835; worked in
a cloth-weaving mill in Germany when a boy; came
to America; found employment in New York City
and later in Philadelphia, and in 1856 enlisted in
the regular army of the United States, with which
he served as a private soldier for five years, securing
an honorable discharge
in 1860. He then came
to Texas, "striking" San Antonio, where he
remained several months. He finally engaged infarming sixteen miles east of San Antonio. He
spent the years 1861-5 in the service of the Southern
Confederacy and during that period aided in the
building of various fortifications in Texas.
He married Miss Gaild Schubert in San Antonio
in 1860. They have one son, Julius Koch. Mr.
Koch located in Boerne in 1862, where he has been
engaged in farming and gardening and has accumulated
a competency.
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Brown, John Henry. Indian Wars and Pioneers of Texas, book, 1880~; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth6725/m1/580/: accessed May 5, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.