Texas Legislators: Past & Present

Carl Alexander Goeth

Full Name: Carl Alexander Goeth
Birth date: March 7, 1835
Death date: December 16, 1912

Terms of Service

House, 20th ⁽¹⁾ ⁽²⁾ Legislature
1/11/1887 - 1/8/1889
Democrat

(1) "At the Democratic district convention, previous to the election of 1886, he was nominated for the office of Representative for the Eighty-ninth District . . .," p. 134. Personnel of the Texas State Government with Sketches of Distinguished Texans, 20th Legislature 1887.
(2) Roster of senators and representatives of the 20th Legislature with their postoffice address, Austin Weekly Statesman, "Governmental," 12/30/1886, p. 6. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries) .

Biographical Notes and Resources

Resolutions and Journal entries

Carl Goeth. House Journal . 20th R.S.

Other Resources

Obituary, Carl Alexander Goeth, "Carl A. Goethe [sic] Is Dead: Former Legislator and Old Citizen of this State Passes—Native of Germany," 12/17/1912, p. 8. Austin Statesman .
Carl Goeth, birth date 3/7/1835, death date 12/16/1912, burial in Goeth-Wenmohs Family Cemetery, Cypress Mill, Blanco County. Includes portraits of Carl and Ottilie Goeth, nee Fuchs; photos at Carl Goeth Home and Log House, Cypress Mill, Texas; and article in Record Courier (Johnson City, Texas), 6/28/1973. Find a Grave .
Mentioned in GOETH, OTTILIE FUCHS (1836–1926). Handbook of Texas Online .
Biographical information and family history, including Chapter V, "Carl Goeth—A Story of His Life," by Carl Goeth's wife Ottilie Goeth, nee Fuchs; translated from the German by Irma Goeth Guenther, Austin, Texas, 1969; revised and reformatted by Kenneth W. Fuchs, 2010; copyright by Irma Goeth Guenther, 1969. Includes description of service in the Legislature, Chapter V and Appendix A, "Political Career of Carl Goeth." Memoirs of a Texas Pioneer Grandmother (Was Grossmutter Erzählt), 1805-1915 1969.
Biographical sketch and portrait, Carl Goeth, pp. 132-134. Personnel of the Texas State Government with Sketches of Distinguished Texans, 20th Legislature 1887.
Biographical sketch and portrait, Carl Alexander Goeth, pp. 473-475. Born 3/7/1835 in Wetzlar, Germany, married Ottilia Fuchs in 1859. Personnel of the Texas State Government with Sketches of Representative Men of Texas, 22nd Legislature 1892.
Confederate States Army. Served in quartermaster's department under Major James McKinney during the Civil War, and in a scouting party on the frontier. Personnel of the Texas State Government with Sketches of Representative Men of Texas, 22nd Legislature 1892.
Biographical sketch and portrait, Carl Alexander Goeth, pp. 400-402. Texas, the Country and Its Men: Historical, Biographical, Descriptive 1918.