Julius Berends

Full Name: Julius Berends
Other surnames: Behrends
Date of birth: 1817
Date of death: June 6, 1891

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Chamber District Dates of Service Legislatures Party City/County Note Counties in District
H 29 Jan 14, 1873 - Jan 13, 1874 13th   Democrat San Antonio / Bexar   Bandera, Bexar, Blanco, Burnet, Comal, Edwards, Gillespie, Kendall, Kerr, Kimble, Llano, Mason, Menard, Wilson

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House District 29
Jan 14, 1873 - Jan 13, 1874
Legislatures: 13th  
Party: Democrat
Home City/County: San Antonio / Bexar
Counties in district: Bandera, Bexar, Blanco, Burnet, Comal, Edwards, Gillespie, Kendall, Kerr, Kimble, Llano, Mason, Menard, Wilson

Biographical Information top

Biographical Sketches

  • Biographical sketch, pp. 34-37. "Berends, the son of the mayor of his birthplace, Kyritz, Germany . . . In 1872 Julius Berends was elected to the Texas Legislature from San Antonio. He was a member of a controversial legislative committee to enact a public school bill, which virtually closed the public schools for a time . . . [in]1875, when he went back to Germany until his death in 1891," Chapter 4, "The German-English School of San Antonio: Biography of a Building and a Concept," by Mary M. El-Beheri & Mark H. Clark, Douglas MacArthur High School, San Antonio, Texas. Occasional Papers of the Society for German-American Studies: No. 10, Papers from the St. Olaf Symposium on German-Americana, April 27-28, 1979, 1980.

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13th R.S. - 1873
Education  
Immigration  
Public Buildings and Grounds  
Public Debt  

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