Biographical sketch, pp. 34-37. "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.
Clark, Mark H., "The German-English School of San Antonio," The Texas Historian, Vol. 40, No. 4, March 1980, p. 6-9, crediting Texas State Historical Association. "He founded the first bookstore in San Antonio and represented the area in the state legislature from 1872 to 1874." Includes portrait.
Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries) .