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Machemehl, LT Louis Arnold Jr. (1882-1952)
Machemehl, Louis Arnold
Life Sketch
Louis A. Machemehl is one of Bellville's native sons, born on the 20th of December, 1881, to Paul and Hermina (Brune) Machemehl, a native son and daughter of Germany. Coming to the United States and to Texas in 1849, they made their way from Houston to within four miles of Bellville, in Austin county, with an ox team, and there Paul Machemehl became a farmer and stock-raiser. He is now living retired from an active business life on his old homestead, and he is honored as one of the pioneers of Austin county. John Machemehl, his father, was for many years the official surveyor of Austin county, a civil engineer by profession, and during his lifetime devoted to that work he served many years as a county surveyor, and at the time of his death was succeeded in that office by his son, J. H. Machemehl.
It was on his father's estate in Austin County that Louis A. Machemehl grew to years of maturity, attending first a public school near Bellville, later a private college at Brenham, and he then pursued a business course at Hill's Business College of Waco. With this splendid training he began life's activities, and from that time to the present he has been identified with the cattle business, utilizing for this purpose at the present time three thousand acres of ranch and farming land. In 1907 he was made one of the directors of the First National Bank of Bellville, and in October of 1909 he was one of the organizers of the Austin County State Bank, and he is serving now as its vice president. This bank is capitalized at thirty thousand dollars, and has a surplus of six thousand dollars, and its officers and directors are all men of the highest business standing in Austin County and southeastern Texas. Mr. Machemehl married, in 1904, Addie Reichard, a daughter of Charles Reichard, of Bernardo, in Colorado county, he having come to Texas from Germany in 1850. The two children of this marriage union are Louis A., Jr., and Adel Heide. Mr. Machemehl has fraternal relations with the Woodmen of the World, with the Sons of Herrmann and with the Bellville Turn Verein. He gives his political support to the Democratic party, and he is serving at the present time as chairman of precinct No. 1. (Historical Review of South-East Texas and the Founders, Leaders and Representative Men, Vol 2, by Dermot Hardy and Maj. Ingham S. Robert, by The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago, 1910 |
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Machemehl
Louis Arnold
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