Caspar Braun
Posted by: Groundspeak Regular Member TeamKing
N 29° 46.007 W 095° 23.143
15R E 269332 N 3295328
A marker located in Glenwood Cemetery in Houston.
Waymark Code: WM1BF2
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 03/24/2007
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member clayj
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Marker Number: 10618

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(March 16, 1822 - October 14, 1880)

A native of Germany, Caspar Braun was educated in Switzerland. A physician and teacher as well as a Lutheran clergyman, he was sent to Pennsylvania as a missionary in 1847. He arrived in Houston in 1850. The following year he organized the first German Evangelical Lutheran Church and was elected first president of the German Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Texas. Braun and his wife Margaret (Bohmert) were the parents of eight children.
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