Texas Legislators: Past & Present

Marcellus Eugene Kleberg

Full Name: Marcellus Eugene Kleberg
Birth date: February 7, 1849
Death date: March 1, 1913

Terms of Service

House, 13th ⁽¹⁾ Legislature
1/14/1873 - 1/13/1874
Democrat

(1) Clinton, former county seat of DeWitt County, was located on the west bank of the Guadalupe River five miles southwest of the site of present Cuero. The Clinton post office closed in 1886, and by 1900 there remained little evidence that the once prosperous town ever existed. Handbook of Texas Online .

Biographical Notes and Resources

Resolutions and Journal entries

33rd Legislature, R.S., 3/6/1913, p. 885. Resolutions - Memorial .

Photographs

Photograph. Marcellus Kleberg, State Preservation Board
Photograph. Marcellus Kleberg, DeGolyer Library, SMU, Lawrence T. Jones III Texas Photographs

Other Resources

KLEBERG, MARCELLUS E. (1849-1913). Handbook of Texas Online .
Biographical sketch, Marcellus E. Kleberg, Volume II, pp. 501-502. Historical Review of South-east Texas and the Founders, Leaders and Representative Men of Its Commerce, Industry and Civic Affairs 1910.
Biographical sketch of Robert Kleberg, father of Rudolph and Marcellus Kleberg, pp. 24-29. Tiling, Moritz, 1851-1916. History of the German Element in Texas from 1820-1850, and Historical Sketches of the German Texas Singers' League and Houston Turnverein from 1853-1913, 1913, Houston, Texas, crediting University of Texas at Arlington Library. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries) .
Mentioned in biographical sketch of father, Robert Justus Kleberg. Relatives: Marcellus Kleberg and Rudolph Kleberg - brothers. Includes photos of Rudolph Kleberg and the three Kleberg brothers: Rudolph, Marcellus, and Robert. Sons of Dewitt Colony Texas 1997.
Siblings Rudolph, Marcellus, and Caroline Kleberg [Eckhardt] mentioned in biographical sketch of their father, Robert Justus Kleberg. Relatives: Rudolph and Marcellus Kleberg - granduncles; Robert Christian Eckhardt - grandnephew. Sons of Dewitt Colony Texas 1997.
Siblings Rudolph, Marcellus, and Caroline Kleberg [Eckhardt] mentioned in biographical sketch of their father, Robert Justus Kleberg. Relatives: Rudolph and Marcellus Kleberg - uncles; Robert J. Eckhardt - nephew. Sons of Dewitt Colony Texas 1997.