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Jacob Nussbaumer

Occupation
butcher
Origin
Solothurn, Switzerland
Sources
Santerre, Foster, DMN 1906, Boyer, Lexington #245, p. 0634, Sandell
Notes
m. Dorothea Boll in the colony (DMN 1906 marriage list); 1906 roster: 'J. Nussbaumer and cousin'; came with his father Robert (separate entry)

Ship

Land

Biography

Jacob Nussbaumer


Name
  Canonical: Jacob Nussbaumer
  French: Jacques Nussbaumer; "Jacques Nusbaumer" (Lexington manifest)
  Also: J. Nussbaumer (DMN 1906: "J. Nussbaumer and cousin")

Birth: about 1828, Solothurn, Switzerland, into a large family
Death: Dallas, date unknown
Burial: Greenwood Cemetery, Dallas

Origin: Solothurn; butcher by trade

Family
  Father: Robert Nussbaumer, who came with him and died at the colony
    September 26, 1855
  Wife: Dorothea Boll, sister of Henri Boll, married at the colony (DMN
    1906 marriage list; Cordillot)
  Two children in the 1860 census; three sons ran the Fort Worth ranch
    with him; Dorothy Nussbaumer, widow, and heirs sold in 1898

Occupation at colony: butcher
Occupation in Dallas: farmer and butcher; real estate; rancher

Ship / arrival: Lexington, Le Havre to New Orleans, arriving February 24,
  1855 -- "Jacques Nusbaumer, 28" (#245) with "Rupert Nusbaumer, 42"
  (#242). He and his father were the first Swiss at Reunion (Cordillot).
  He was not aboard the Franziska with Burkli's group (src/findings.md);
  it was on his advice that Heinrich Frick joined that group.

Colony role: married there

Post-colony
  - Moved to Dallas before the dissolution and founded a farm worked
    jointly with his brother-in-law Boll; Sandell: the first Swiss settler
    to move to Dallas, an abattoir, a house on Swiss Road next to Boll's
  - Summer 1857: Savardan, on his way home, stopped with him and found
    him homesick for Switzerland but happy and prosperous, the butcher's
    trade made lucrative by Dallas
  - 1861: bought the colony's communal stove for his Dallas abattoir
    (Santerre)
  - 1860 census: Dallas County, with wife and two children
  - December 1868 - February 1869: contracted and completed the grading
    of Main Street for $250 -- the colonist council's first public work
    (Sandell)
  - 1871: the council chose nine acres of his land (Jefferson Peak
    Addition) for the H&TC depot, approved by the voters 167-11 for
    $14,650; Sandell says he donated the station land (TIMELINE 1871.03,
    1872.07.16)
  - About twenty years after the colony, subdivided his farm -- near the
    terminus of one of the first streetcar lines, in one of the most
    sought-after quarters -- in "one of the most successful real-estate
    operations in the history of Dallas" (Cordillot); Nussbaumer's
    Subdivision and Nussbaumer's Field Street Addition are in the Murphy
    & Bolanz books
  - Bought a ranch at Fort Worth, run with his three sons

Land
  1859 tax roll: 34 acres.
  1898: Dorothy Nussbaumer (widow) and heirs to Henrietta Frichot Wilson,
    block 492 (Vol. 230).
  doc/deeds/colonists/ holds 21 Nussbaumer deed files, the largest run
    for any colonist -- not yet in deeds.py.

Sources
  Cordillot, "Nussbaumer Jacques," Au Texas (2003)
  Lexington passenger list, #245 (doc/colonists/ships/lexington/roster.md)
  Sandell, colonist directory; ch. III-IV
  Santerre, White Cliffs of Dallas (1955), colonist list
  Savardan, Un naufrage au Texas (1858), on the 1857 visit
  deeds.py: 1859 tax roll; 1898
  TIMELINE.md: 1861.??, 1868.12-1869.02, 1871.03-04, 1872.07.16

Notes
  The railroad reached Dallas across Nussbaumer's farm, on land the
  colonist council chose for the depot: the projected railroad of 1855
  and the real one of 1872 both ran through colonist ground. His
  twenty-one deed files are the best-documented colonist land career in
  the repo and the obvious next ingestion.

Memorial and Biographical History of Dallas County (1892), p. 625
  Boll's sketch: after three months in the colony Boll and three
  countrymen leased 160 acres from it, found it had no title and gave it
  up; "then, with his brother-in-law, Jacob Nussbaumer, he engaged in
  butchering and followed the business until the breaking out of the
  war." "J. Nusbaumer" signed the June 1868 memorial.
  doc/text/books/1800/lewis_memorial_dallas_county_1892/excerpts.md

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