KIEFFER, CAPTAIN AUGUST H.
Captain August H. Kieffer, assistant city marshal at San Antonio, was born at Castroville, Medina County, Texas, in August, 1862. His parents, Blasius and Adeline (Halberdie) Kieffer, were natives of the province of Alsace, France, and came to Texas as members of Castro's Alsatian colony in 1846, being among those who were pioneers in settling the famous colony of Castroville in Medina County, about twenty-five miles west of San Antonio. Mrs. Kieffer died during the cholera epidemic of 1866. Mr. Kieffer was a successful businessman and for several years conducted a brewery at Castroville, where he died in 1883.
Captain Kieffer remained with his father until about thirteen years of age, when he went to Del Rio, in Val Verde County. He had several years' experience as a cowboy during the earlier days of the cattle business, when the range was open and there were no wire fences to show individual ownership or to prevent the stockman from herding his cattle wherever he desired. In 1887 and 1888 Captain Kieffer engaged in business at Del Rio. In the fall of the succeeding year, he was a candidate for sheriff of Val Verde County and was elected. In the spring of 1903 he came to San Antonio, where he has since made his home, and he acted as a police officer under the Elmendorf and under the Hicks administrations. He was afterward deputy under Sheriff John Tobin, and later was appointed first assistant city marshal under the Campbell administration, while in the spring of 1905 he was reappointed to the position under the Callaghan administration.
Captain Kieffer has been peculiarly successful in politics, due to his sterling qualities, his methods, which neither seek nor require disguise, and his well-known efficiency as an officer. His fidelity and capability have been the elements that have enabled him to hold office under different and strongly opposed administrations.
Captain Kieffer was married at D'Hanis, in Medina County, Texas, to Miss Christina Wipff, a daughter of the late Joseph Wipff, who was also an Alsatian and one of the original settlers of the county and D'Hanis more than fifty years ago. He was a prominent and well-known citizen of that community through a long period and died there in 1899. Both the Wipff and Kieffer families experienced all of the hardships incident to life on the frontier when Indians were frequently on the warpath, when wild animals were quite numerous, and when their remoteness from all railroads rendered the existence a hard one. To Mr. and Mrs. Kieffer were born six children, Mattie C, Arthur Gerhardt, Edwin Joseph, Marshall J., Russell John and Charlotte Annie. The Captain has throughout his life been a resident of Texas and has therefore been a witness of much of its growth and development, sharing in the work of public progress as opportunity has offered and his resources have permitted. (A Twentieth Century History of Southwest Texas Vol 2, Lewis Publishing Company, 1907
Captain August H. Kieffer, assistant city marshal at San Antonio, was born at Castroville, Medina County, Texas, in August, 1862. His parents, Blasius and Adeline (Halberdie) Kieffer, were natives of the province of Alsace, France, and came to Texas as members of Castro's Alsatian colony in 1846, being among those who were pioneers in settling the famous colony of Castroville in Medina County, about twenty-five miles west of San Antonio. Mrs. Kieffer died during the cholera epidemic of 1866. Mr. Kieffer was a successful businessman and for several years conducted a brewery at Castroville, where he died in 1883.
Captain Kieffer remained with his father until about thirteen years of age, when he went to Del Rio, in Val Verde County. He had several years' experience as a cowboy during the earlier days of the cattle business, when the range was open and there were no wire fences to show individual ownership or to prevent the stockman from herding his cattle wherever he desired. In 1887 and 1888 Captain Kieffer engaged in business at Del Rio. In the fall of the succeeding year, he was a candidate for sheriff of Val Verde County and was elected. In the spring of 1903 he came to San Antonio, where he has since made his home, and he acted as a police officer under the Elmendorf and under the Hicks administrations. He was afterward deputy under Sheriff John Tobin, and later was appointed first assistant city marshal under the Campbell administration, while in the spring of 1905 he was reappointed to the position under the Callaghan administration.
Captain Kieffer has been peculiarly successful in politics, due to his sterling qualities, his methods, which neither seek nor require disguise, and his well-known efficiency as an officer. His fidelity and capability have been the elements that have enabled him to hold office under different and strongly opposed administrations.
Captain Kieffer was married at D'Hanis, in Medina County, Texas, to Miss Christina Wipff, a daughter of the late Joseph Wipff, who was also an Alsatian and one of the original settlers of the county and D'Hanis more than fifty years ago. He was a prominent and well-known citizen of that community through a long period and died there in 1899. Both the Wipff and Kieffer families experienced all of the hardships incident to life on the frontier when Indians were frequently on the warpath, when wild animals were quite numerous, and when their remoteness from all railroads rendered the existence a hard one. To Mr. and Mrs. Kieffer were born six children, Mattie C, Arthur Gerhardt, Edwin Joseph, Marshall J., Russell John and Charlotte Annie. The Captain has throughout his life been a resident of Texas and has therefore been a witness of much of its growth and development, sharing in the work of public progress as opportunity has offered and his resources have permitted. (A Twentieth Century History of Southwest Texas Vol 2, Lewis Publishing Company, 1907
KIEFFER, CAPTAIN AUGUST H.
Captain August H. Kieffer, assistant city marshal at San Antonio, was born at Castroville, Medina County, Texas, in August, 1862. His parents, Blasius and Adeline (Halberdie) Kieffer, were natives of the province of Alsace, France, and came to Texas as members of Castro's Alsatian colony in 1846, being among those who were pioneers in settling the famous colony of Castroville in Medina County, about twenty-five miles west of San Antonio. Mrs. Kieffer died during the cholera epidemic of 1866. Mr. Kieffer was a successful businessman and for several years conducted a brewery at Castroville, where he died in 1883.
Captain Kieffer remained with his father until about thirteen years of age, when he went to Del Rio, in Val Verde County. He had several years' experience as a cowboy during the earlier days of the cattle business, when the range was open and there were no wire fences to show individual ownership or to prevent the stockman from herding his cattle wherever he desired. In 1887 and 1888 Captain Kieffer engaged in business at Del Rio. In the fall of the succeeding year, he was a candidate for sheriff of Val Verde County and was elected. In the spring of 1903 he came to San Antonio, where he has since made his home, and he acted as a police officer under the Elmendorf and under the Hicks administrations. He was afterward deputy under Sheriff John Tobin, and later was appointed first assistant city marshal under the Campbell administration, while in the spring of 1905 he was reappointed to the position under the Callaghan administration.
Captain Kieffer has been peculiarly successful in politics, due to his sterling qualities, his methods, which neither seek nor require disguise, and his well-known efficiency as an officer. His fidelity and capability have been the elements that have enabled him to hold office under different and strongly opposed administrations.
Captain Kieffer was married at D'Hanis, in Medina County, Texas, to Miss Christina Wipff, a daughter of the late Joseph Wipff, who was also an Alsatian and one of the original settlers of the county and D'Hanis more than fifty years ago. He was a prominent and well-known citizen of that community through a long period and died there in 1899. Both the Wipff and Kieffer families experienced all of the hardships incident to life on the frontier when Indians were frequently on the warpath, when wild animals were quite numerous, and when their remoteness from all railroads rendered the existence a hard one. To Mr. and Mrs. Kieffer were born six children, Mattie C, Arthur Gerhardt, Edwin Joseph, Marshall J., Russell John and Charlotte Annie. The Captain has throughout his life been a resident of Texas and has therefore been a witness of much of its growth and development, sharing in the work of public progress as opportunity has offered and his resources have permitted. (A Twentieth Century History of Southwest Texas Vol 2, Lewis Publishing Company, 1907
Captain August H. Kieffer, assistant city marshal at San Antonio, was born at Castroville, Medina County, Texas, in August, 1862. His parents, Blasius and Adeline (Halberdie) Kieffer, were natives of the province of Alsace, France, and came to Texas as members of Castro's Alsatian colony in 1846, being among those who were pioneers in settling the famous colony of Castroville in Medina County, about twenty-five miles west of San Antonio. Mrs. Kieffer died during the cholera epidemic of 1866. Mr. Kieffer was a successful businessman and for several years conducted a brewery at Castroville, where he died in 1883.
Captain Kieffer remained with his father until about thirteen years of age, when he went to Del Rio, in Val Verde County. He had several years' experience as a cowboy during the earlier days of the cattle business, when the range was open and there were no wire fences to show individual ownership or to prevent the stockman from herding his cattle wherever he desired. In 1887 and 1888 Captain Kieffer engaged in business at Del Rio. In the fall of the succeeding year, he was a candidate for sheriff of Val Verde County and was elected. In the spring of 1903 he came to San Antonio, where he has since made his home, and he acted as a police officer under the Elmendorf and under the Hicks administrations. He was afterward deputy under Sheriff John Tobin, and later was appointed first assistant city marshal under the Campbell administration, while in the spring of 1905 he was reappointed to the position under the Callaghan administration.
Captain Kieffer has been peculiarly successful in politics, due to his sterling qualities, his methods, which neither seek nor require disguise, and his well-known efficiency as an officer. His fidelity and capability have been the elements that have enabled him to hold office under different and strongly opposed administrations.
Captain Kieffer was married at D'Hanis, in Medina County, Texas, to Miss Christina Wipff, a daughter of the late Joseph Wipff, who was also an Alsatian and one of the original settlers of the county and D'Hanis more than fifty years ago. He was a prominent and well-known citizen of that community through a long period and died there in 1899. Both the Wipff and Kieffer families experienced all of the hardships incident to life on the frontier when Indians were frequently on the warpath, when wild animals were quite numerous, and when their remoteness from all railroads rendered the existence a hard one. To Mr. and Mrs. Kieffer were born six children, Mattie C, Arthur Gerhardt, Edwin Joseph, Marshall J., Russell John and Charlotte Annie. The Captain has throughout his life been a resident of Texas and has therefore been a witness of much of its growth and development, sharing in the work of public progress as opportunity has offered and his resources have permitted. (A Twentieth Century History of Southwest Texas Vol 2, Lewis Publishing Company, 1907
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