Julian Reverchon
- Occupation
- botanist
- Origin
- Diemoz, France
- Sources
- Santerre, Foster, DMN 1906, Boyer, Sandell, DMN 1903
Positions
- delegate of the supervisory board to Bessard, the new society of 1861 — 1861 (named) [cordillot]
From the register of positions.
Land
- 1880-03-17: Julien Reverchon (executor of Maximilian Reverchon) → Louisa Girard (None ac, Anson McCracken)
- ?: Julian Reverchon → Robert M. Freeman (None ac, John Grigsby League)
- 1859 tax roll: Julian & M. Reverchon — 50 ac
Family tree
Surname appears in the Reverchon family tree.
Biography
Julian Reverchon
Name
Canonical: Julian Reverchon
French: Julien Reverchon
Also: Mr. Reverchon (DMN 1906)
Birth: August 3, 1837, Diemoz (Isere), near Lyon (Cordillot). The Fish
Trap cemetery marker reads 1836-1905 -- conflict on the year.
Death: December 30, 1905, Dallas
Burial: the colony cemetery (Fish Trap), with his wife
Origin: Diemoz; studied at Lyon, botany and natural sciences above all
Family
Father: Jacques Maximilien Reverchon
Wife: Marie Reverchon nee Henri (1842-1901), daughter of the colonist
Paul Henri; died 1901
Son: Michel J. Reverchon, 1865-1888 (cemetery)
Occupation at colony: none recorded; a student of 18
Occupation in Dallas: farmer and botanist; taught at the Baylor school of
pharmacy (Sandell)
Ship / arrival: at 18 with his father; reached Reunion in spring 1856
(Cordillot -- the father's notice says December 1856).
Colony role
- Stayed almost to the dissolution
- 1861: at the creation of the new society, named delegate of the
supervisory board to Bessard, the receiver (Cordillot -- the
receivership's sell-off phase, TIMELINE 1858.??)
Post-colony
- As a herbalist discovered and catalogued many local plants unknown in
France; became an eminent botanist; popularized grafting in the Dallas
region -- Sandell: "internationally known for budding/grafting fruit
trees"
- The Girards -- Joseph, Frank and Pierre -- quarried the rock and built
his herbarium (Sandell)
- "This austere and cultivated citizen" is honoured by a Dallas public
park bearing his name (Reverchon Park)
Land
1859 tax roll: "Julian & M. Reverchon," 50 acres
March 17, 1880: as executor of his father, to Louisa Girard, McCracken
survey (Vol. 48, p. 471)
Undated: Julian Reverchon to Robert M. Freeman, John Grigsby League
(Vol. 101, p. 185), for $1
Murphy & Bolanz block book 1, p. 322: Julien Reverchon's lot on Block
322, between Ross Avenue, Flora, Peak and Leonard streets, East Dallas
(doc/maps/murphy_bolanz/322_reverchon.pdf)
Sources
Cordillot, "Reverchon Julien," Au Texas (2003)
Sandell, colonist directory
Santerre, White Cliffs of Dallas (1955), colonist list; ch. XIII
(cemetery)
deeds.py: 1859 tax roll; 1880-03-17; Grigsby League conveyance
src/ged/reverchon.ged
Notes
The colony's one scientist of lasting reputation arrived as a teenager
and made his name on the plants of the ground the colony failed to farm.
He is also the only colonist with a city block in the block books and a
farm in the addition books -- both sheets now in the map room.
Memorial and Biographical History of Dallas County (1892), pp. 614-615
Born Diemoz August 3, 1837; could name every wild plant of his
neighbourhood at fourteen; eighteen when he came with his father, whose
farm "is to-day a suburb of West Dallas." Married July 24, 1864 Marie
Henry, daughter of Paul Henry and granddaughter of Captain Deshogues
[Dehouge], a Napoleonic officer of the Legion of Honour wounded at
Waterloo. Two sons, Michel and Maximilien, both died of typhoid in 1884
"just as they were merging into manhood" -- the cemetery marker reads
Michel J. Reverchon 1865-1888: conflict on the year. Robert Freeman,
the boys' friend, came to live with the parents -- the grantee of the
$1 Grigsby League deed. Correspondent of Asa Gray, contributor to the
Flora of North America; a new genus from the Panhandle, 1879, bears his
name (Reverchonia). Signed the June 1868 memorial ("Julien Roverchon").
doc/text/books/1800/lewis_memorial_dallas_county_1892/excerpts.md