Pierre Philip Frichot
- Occupation
- contractor
- Origin
- Paris, France
- Sources
- Santerre, Foster, DMN 1906, Boyer, Sandell
Positions
- Co. H, 3rd Texas Infantry State Troops (six months, 1863-64), Texas State Troops — 1863 – 1864 (enlisted) [nps] M227 roll 12. In no narrative source: the father in the state troops while the son was in the cavalry
- founding member, AIT Section 46, Dallas — 1872 (member) [cordillot]
From the register of positions.
Land
- 1858-02-17: S.H. Cockrell → P.P. Frichot (2 ac, )
- 1859 tax roll: P.P. Frichot — 266 ac
- 1859 tax roll: C.D. Frichot — illegible ac
Biography
Pierre Philip Frichot
Name
Canonical: Pierre Philip Frichot
French: Pierre-Philippe Frichot
Also: "Frichot, Pere Philip" (Sandell); Mr. Frishot (DMN 1906);
P. Frishot (Boyer)
Birth: Paris; date unknown
Death: 1880, Dallas
Burial: unknown
Origin: Paris. Trained as an architect and mason; after military service
worked many years for a construction firm.
Family
First wife died soon after the birth of their two children, which
decided him to emigrate
Daughter: Leontine Frichot, married Jean Priot (brickmaker, Remond's
half-brother)
Brother: Christophe-Desire Frichot
Son: Christophe (per Cordillot, in the brickworks); Achille Frichot,
the mason on Santerre's list who served in the 19th Texas Cavalry, is
probably the same son -- Sandell's "Hershel" -- unresolved
Mme Suzanne Frichot nee Boll (Cordillot's appendix) belongs to this
family, husband unstated
Henrietta Frichot Wilson, grantee of the Nussbaumer heirs in 1898
Occupation at colony: builder
Occupation in Dallas: brick manufacturer; designer and master builder of
many of Dallas's brick buildings (Cordillot); Santerre "contractor"
Ship / arrival: a Fourierist, he joined Dr Mure's expedition to Brazil,
then crossed the United States working in several cities before meeting
his brother at New York; the two joined the advance guard for Texas
(early 1855). Months later he went back to France for his own family
and his brother's, and sailed again from Le Havre in spring 1856,
reaching Reunion via New Orleans and Houston that summer.
Colony role: member until the dissolution; stayed on the site until the
end of the 1850s.
Post-colony
- Bought a lot near the present Bryan and Harwood streets and in 1869
built a cut-stone house there, where he lived until his death;
Sandell: "built the first house at Bryan and Harwood"
- Founding member of Section 46 (1872); with his son-in-law gave $3 to
the AIT subscription for the strikers of the Nord
- 1873: returned to France meaning to stay; came back to Dallas two
years later on news that his only grandson was gravely ill
- In his last working years set up a brickworks with his son, his
son-in-law Priot and his brother
Land
February 17, 1858: S.H. Cockrell to P.P. Frichot, 2 acres (Vol. G, p. 313)
1859 tax roll: P.P. Frichot, 266 acres -- the largest colonist holding
on the roll
Sources
Cordillot, "Frichot Pierre-Philippe," Au Texas (2003)
Sandell, colonist directory; ch. III
Santerre, White Cliffs of Dallas (1955), colonist list; ch. XII
deeds.py: 1858-02-17; 1859 tax roll; 1898
Notes
The Parisian mason who became the master builder of brick Dallas is the
argument in one career: the skill that had no place in a farming colony
built the town next door. The 266 acres of 1859 are worth tracing --
where were they, and when did they go?