Auguste Guillemet
- Occupation
- army major
- Origin
- France
- Sources
- Santerre, Foster, DMN 1906, Sandell
Positions
- expense control (with Savardan and Doderet), Société de Réunion — 1856-08-27 – 1857 (named) [cordillot] by a management letter signed Bureau
From the register of positions.
Biography
Auguste Guillemet
Name
Canonical: Auguste Guillemet
Also: August Guillemet (Foster); Mr. Guillemet (DMN 1906). Not F.L.
Willemet, and not Savardan's "Willemain" -- three confusable names.
Birth: France; date unknown
Death: Dallas, "a few years" after 1860
Burial: unknown
Origin: military school; active service in Algeria as a sergeant-major in
the Legion. Santerre's list: "army major." Sandell: "soldier, one of the
oldest colonists."
Family
Wife: Marie Guillemet nee Lagogue (Cordillot's appendix) -- a link to
the shoemaker Jean-Baptiste Lagogue; an excellent seamstress who
brought a trunk of the best fabrics
Daughter: Angele, born at Algiers
Four children in the 1860 census; Alfred Guillemet is in the registry
Occupation at colony: expense control (see below)
Occupation in Dallas: farmer
Ship / arrival: left with his family at the end of 1855; arrived February
1856.
Colony role
- By a management letter signed Bureau, August 27, 1856, charged with
controlling expenses alongside Savardan and Doderet, in particular
those of the restaurant
- Stayed to the final dissolution
Post-colony
- With a few companions bought the Horton property and took part in the
attempt to recreate a mini-phalanstery there (Cordillot); Sandell:
"bought land in the Horton survey and farmed"
- 1860 census: Dallas, with wife and four children
Land
The Horton half-section (parcel 1 of the 1858 partition, abstract 604)
-- which part, and by what deed, is not yet in deeds.py.
Sources
Cordillot, "Guillemet Auguste," Au Texas (2003)
Sandell, colonist directory
Santerre, White Cliffs of Dallas (1955), colonist list
Notes
Two mini-phalansteries survived the colony: Santerre's on the Coombs
land and this one, "with a few companions," on Horton. Who the
companions were is a deed question.