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| Format | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Author, Analytic | Flachmeier, Jeanette |
| Title, Analytic | Peter Henry Oberwetter, German American |
| Journal Title | The Journal (German-Texan Heritage Society) |
| Date of Publication | Fall 2008 |
| Volume ID | 30 |
| Issue ID | 3 |
| Location in Work | 278-281 |
| ISSN | 0730-3106 |
| Abstract | Essay submitted by a student as part of the Austin Ethnic History Association's Contest, April 1980. Peter Henry Oberwetter was born in Dornberg, Westphalia, on 8 January 1830. In 1848, having sailed on the Canapus, Oberwetter and his wife arrived in New Orleans. They made their home in Comfort, Kendall County, Texas. Oberwetter pursued a scientific interest in botany, both in Texas and--during the Civil War--in Mexico. After the war he lived in Austin, where he worked as a printer and as a landscaper on the Texas Capitol grounds and at the Texas School for the Deaf. "By 1883 he was recognized as an important botanist of the area and from about 1889 to 1896 he had a 'florist shop with an appropriate greenhouse for all of his exotic plants and bulbs." He is known especially for his pioneering work with amaryllis. |
| Call Number | MKI Periodicals |
| MKI Terms | German Americans -- Texas/ Genealogy/ Oberwetter/ Botany/ Science |