Positions held
89 positions held by 33 colonists and a few of their
companions: the company's and the colony's offices, Civil War service on both
sides, the county and city offices of Reconstruction and after, and the First
International. One row per person and position, from
src/colonists/offices.py; where the sources disagree the note says
how, and nothing is resolved silently.
Thin after 1876 by construction: Sandell's council-minute reading stops there, and no colonist surname has yet been run against the city officials lists of 1875–1890 (the Memorial and Biographical History of Dallas County, 1892; the city directories) or the Confederate compiled service records. That check is on the roadmap. The war rows are read against the witnesses on the war page.
Before the colony
| Who | Position | Body | When | How | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Victor Prosper Considerant | deputy for Montargis | French National Assembly | 1848 – 1849 | elected | cordillot |
| Victor Prosper Considerant | deputy for Paris fled to Belgium after the failed insurrection of 13 June | French Legislative Assembly | 1849 – 1849-06-13 | elected | cordillot |
| Karl Burkli | member of the Grand Council founder of the Zurich Konsumverein the same year | Canton of Zurich | c. 1851 – 1855 | elected | cordillot |
| Jaques Maximilien Reverchon | director of cultivation, Sig colony | French Algeria | 1830s | appointed | cordillot |
The company and the colony, 1854–1861
| Who | Position | Body | When | How | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Allyre Bureau | managing partner (gérant) Cordillot dates the founding 14 Sept 1854; the act says 26 Sept. Died in office. | SCEAT, Brussels | 1854-09-26 – 1859-10-31 | named | sceat-statutes; cordillot |
| Ferdinand Guillon | managing partner | SCEAT, Brussels | 1854-09-26 | named | sceat-statutes |
| Jean-Baptiste Godin-Lemaire | managing partner; principal shareholder | SCEAT, Brussels | 1854-09-26 | named | sceat-statutes; cordillot |
| Victor Prosper Considerant | executive agent in Texas left the colony 8 July 1856; the agency formally continued from San Antonio | SCEAT | 1854-09-26 – 1856-07-08 | named | sceat-statutes; cordillot |
| Francois Cantagrel | director withdrew a first resignation 7 May 1856; resigned for good 6 July | Société de Réunion | 1855-08-07 – 1856-07-06 | named | savardan; cordillot |
| Dr. Savardan | board member; secretary and treasurer also physician and magistrate of the colony | Société de Réunion | 1855-08-07 – 1856-07-06 | elected | savardan; cordillot |
| Vincent Cousin | board member; engineer and architect | Société de Réunion | 1855-08-07 – 1856-07-08 | named | savardan; cordillot |
| Karl Burkli | member of the conseil de direction left after Considerant refused him a tannery | Société de Réunion | 1855-08 – c. 1856-02 | named | cordillot |
| John B. Louckx | board member; head of building | Société de Réunion | 1855-08-14 | elected | cordillot |
| F.L. Willemette | économat and canteen dismissed by Cantagrel, reinstated by Duthoya; per Savardan 'the real director' during the 1857 interim | Société de Réunion | 1855 – 1858 | named | cordillot; savardan |
| Francois Santerre | in charge of agricultural work | Société de Réunion | 1856-05 – 1857 | informal | cordillot |
| Tristan Duthoya | acting director | Société de Réunion | 1856-07-06 – 1857-01 | named | savardan; cordillot |
| Auguste Guillemet | expense control (with Savardan and Doderet) by a management letter signed Bureau | Société de Réunion | 1856-08-27 – 1857 | named | cordillot |
| Charles Capy | consultative commission the commission Cousin abolished after Bureau left | Société de Réunion | 1857-02-03 – 1857-03 | named | cordillot; savardan |
| Athanase Cretien | consultative commission | Société de Réunion | 1857-02-03 – 1857-03 | named | cordillot |
| Jean Loupot | consultative commission withdrew at the first meeting, wanting his shares repaid in cash | Société de Réunion | 1857-02-03 | named | cordillot |
| Dr. Savardan | consultative commission | Société de Réunion | 1857-02-03 – 1857-03 | named | cordillot |
| Vincent Cousin | acting head of the colony holding Bureau's delegated powers; ran the Feb-Apr 1857 land sales | Société de Réunion | 1857-03 – 1858-01 | named | savardan; cordillot |
| Allyre Bureau | administration and the store (with Cousin) | Réunion, under receivership | 1858-01 – 1859-10 | named | cordillot |
| Michel Thevenet | receiver Cordillot omits him and has Bessard appointed only after Bureau's death (1859) | SCEAT liquidation | 1858 – c. 1861 | appointed | santerre XI; sandell II |
| Alexis Bessard | receiver; administrator asked in 1861 to sell the remainder and repatriate the money; carried the Confederate-money proceeds to Belgium | SCEAT liquidation | 1858 – 1861 | appointed | santerre XI; sandell II; cordillot |
| Julian Reverchon | delegate of the supervisory board to Bessard | the new society of 1861 | 1861 | named | cordillot |
| Francois Cantagrel | European agent | the new society of 1861 | 1861 | named | cordillot |
The war, 1861–1865
| Who | Position | Body | When | How | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Henri Boll | commissary department, Col. Buford, then Post Waco the timeline's life-events layer also lists a Boll in Co. K, 19th Texas Cavalry, with the Knapflis -- which Boll is unstated. The NPS index has no Henri/Henry Boll in any Texas unit and no Boll on the 19th Cavalry's 1,409-name roster: consistent with commissary employment, not enlistment | Confederate army | 1862-01 – 1865 | enlisted | santerre XII; cordillot |
| Achille Frichot | Co. B, 19th Texas Cavalry (Burford); corporal NPS: 'Frichot, Ashiel', Co. B, corporal in and out (M227 roll 12) | Confederate army | 1862 | enlisted | santerre XII; nps |
| Emile Remond | Co. B, 19th Texas Cavalry, then Pratt's Battery; colour-bearer wounded; captured at Saline, escaped twice; ambushed at Tensas Bayou, La. NPS: 'Reimond, Emile', Co. B, ensign in and out (M227 roll 30); not on the index roster of the 10th Field Battery, Texas Light Artillery (Pratt's), 206 names -- the transfer would be in the jacket | Confederate army | 1863-03-21 – 1865 | enlisted | cordillot; santerre XII; nps |
| Jacob Knopfli | Co. K, 19th Texas Cavalry with a Wm Knapfli; from the timeline's life-events layer, to verify. NPS: no Jacob or William under any spelling; the one Knopfli in Texas is Henry, below | Confederate army | undated | enlisted | sandell IV |
| Wm Knapfli | Co. K, 19th Texas Cavalry Sandell (after Cochran) has William and Jacob Knapfly; Kagay, William and Joseph; NPS has neither | Confederate army | undated | enlisted | sandell IV; kagay |
| John B. Louckx | Co. F, Waller's Battalion; two years NPS: 'Louckx, J.B.', Co. F, Waller's Regiment, Texas Cavalry, private (M227 roll 22) | Confederate army | undated | enlisted | santerre XII; cordillot; nps |
| Paul Henri | arms factory -- the Lancaster pistol works no Henri in the NPS Texas index -- civilian employment, as Sandell and Cordillot read it | Confederate war industry | 1863 – 1865 | hired | cordillot; santerre XII; sandell |
| Maxime Guillot | supervisor of army wagon and vehicle manufacture Guillot's wagon factory survived the 1860 fire (sandell III); no Guillot in the NPS Texas index | Confederate war industry | undated | hired | santerre XII |
| Jean Priot | wagon supply trains; quartermaster the one Priot in the NPS Texas index is 'Priot, P.', Texas Conscripts (M227 roll 29) -- initial conflicts with Jean; a conscription card would fit an army employee | Confederate army (employee) | 1861 – 1865 | hired | santerre XII; cordillot |
| Pierre Philip Frichot | Co. H, 3rd Texas Infantry State Troops (six months, 1863-64) M227 roll 12. In no narrative source: the father in the state troops while the son was in the cavalry | Texas State Troops | 1863 – 1864 | enlisted | nps |
| Christopher D. Frichot | Co. H, 3rd Texas Infantry State Troops (six months, 1863-64) M227 roll 12, 'Frichot, C.D.'; same company as his brother | Texas State Troops | 1863 – 1864 | enlisted | nps |
| Louis Reinhardt | Good's Company, Texas Light Artillery State Troops (Dallas Light Artillery) the index also has a Louis Reinhardt in Shea's 4th Battalion Artillery and Hobby's 8th Infantry, coast units -- one man or two, unresolved | Texas State Troops | undated | enlisted | nps |
| Charles Voirin | Co. B, 18th Texas Cavalry (Darnell's); private, out as sergeant M227 roll 37, alt. 'Vorin'. Darnell's is the regiment whose men seized the colonists' guns in 1862 (sandell IV) | Confederate army | undated | enlisted | nps |
| Alfred Voirin | Co. B, 18th Texas Cavalry (Darnell's); ensign in, private out M227 roll 37, alt. 'Alford Vorin'; not in the registry -- presumably Charles Voirin's family | Confederate army | undated | enlisted | nps |
| Julius Royer | Co. C, 18th Texas Cavalry (Darnell's); private M227 roll 31, 'Royer, Julis'. Corroborates his 1898 obituary -- a drummer with Walker's division at Mansfield; Darnell's 18th served dismounted in Walker's Texas Division | Confederate army | undated | enlisted | nps |
| Henry Knopfli | Texas Conscripts M227 roll 20; the only Knopfli in the Texas index -- neither the Jacob nor the William of Cochran's list. Relation to Jacob Knopfli unknown | Confederate conscription | undated | conscripted | nps |
| Claus Henry Frick | Co. K, 6th Texas Infantry; private M227 roll 12. A candidate for the registry's Heinrich Frick (Sandell's Mountain Creek rancher), not an attestation | Confederate army | undated | enlisted | nps |
| Jean Santerre | Co. B, 1st Texas Cavalry (U.S.); private M393 roll 2. The only Santerre in the whole NPS index, and a Union one. Not a son of François: the 1860 household and the family tree have Appolinaire (b. 1843), Germain (1848), Emanuel (1850), Raphael (1853), no Jean. The 1st Texas (U.S.) was raised at New Orleans, Nov 1862 - Feb 1864, largely from refugees and foreigners. Chronicling America 1860-1900 (LA, TX) has no Jean Santerre. The M402 jacket (FamilySearch/Fold3, sign-in) would give age, birthplace and enlistment place | Union army | undated | enlisted | nps |
| Paul Girard | Co. M, 1st, then Co. D, 2nd Texas Cavalry (U.S.); private M393 roll 1. The registry has Pierre, J. and F. Girard, no Paul; Chronicling America (LA, TX, 1860-1900) has no Paul Girard. The M402 jacket would settle it | Union army | undated | enlisted | nps |
| Jean Loupot | in Mexico, freighting cotton, four years his 1892 sketch; Cordillot has him at Kaufman County in 1857 and back in Dallas 1869 | civilian | 1861 – 1865 | informal | lewis1892 |
| Athanase Cretien | exempted from active service as a French citizen the general exemption for un-naturalized foreigners, late 1861 (kagay) | Confederate conscription | 1862 | exempted | cordillot; kagay |
| Benjamin Lang | Unionist; petitioner for federal troops at Dallas with Gouffé; the petition cites the violence promised to 'Unionists and freed Blacks' | Union side | 1865 – 1868 | informal | cordillot |
| A.J. Gouffe | Unionist; petitioner for federal troops at Dallas | Union side | 1865 – 1868 | informal | cordillot |
Reconstruction and the city, 1867–1877
| Who | Position | Body | When | How | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A.J. Gouffe | County Treasurer | Dallas County | 1867-11 | appointed | sandell IV; kagay |
| Benjamin Lang | District Clerk, superseding E. B. Spillman the 1892 county list names the office; Thévenet followed him | Dallas County | 1868-06-02 – 1868-fall | appointed | sandell IV; brown1892 |
| Benjamin Lang | Mayor Gen. Reynolds's slate under military government; resigned April 1, 1870 to visit Europe, and Henry S. Ervay was appointed (brown1892; Sandell: Ervay pro tem, 4 Apr); back with 27 Swiss on 3 Dec 1870 (Fretz, DMN 1924) | City of Dallas | 1868-09 – 1870 | appointed | sandell IV; kagay n76; cordillot |
| John F. Barbier | City Marshal The 1892 list confirms 'Marshal, John F. Barbier'; Sandell's directory reverses the brothers. Barbier Street (1871) is named for J.F. | City of Dallas | 1868-09 | appointed | sandell IV; kagay n76 |
| Alexandre Barbier | Assistant Marshal on Sandell's and Kagay's slate; not on Brown's 1892 list, which names no assistant marshal. Later retired to Mineral Wells | City of Dallas | 1868-09 | appointed | sandell IV; kagay n76 |
| A.J. Gouffe | City Treasurer | City of Dallas | 1868-09 | appointed | sandell IV; kagay n76 |
| Henri Boll | Alderman 'Mr. Bole refused to serve' (brown1892); Sandell: resigned at the first meeting, not a city resident; Cordillot: 'refused the deputy mayor's post' | City of Dallas | 1868-09 | appointed | sandell IV; cordillot |
| Michel Thevenet | District Clerk 'appointed District Clerk in the fall of 1868'; John M. Laws held district and county clerk from March 1870 | Dallas County | 1868-fall – 1870-03 | appointed | sandell IV; brown1892 |
| Jean Loupot | Alderman, replacing Jones 'Jones resigned, and John Loupot was substituted' (brown1892) | City of Dallas | 1868-11-26 | appointed | sandell IV; brown1892 |
| F.L. Willemette | Councilman Brown (1892) lists him among the aldermen 'at different times (some resigning)' under Ervay, 1870-72; Sandell ch. II has him on the council continuously 1870-75, ch. IV a gap until 1875. UNRESOLVED. | City of Dallas | 1870-11-19 – c. 1871 | appointed | sandell IV |
| Henri Boll | City Treasurer also treasurer pro tem of the railroad tax, Aug 1871 | City of Dallas | 1871-05-01 – 1872-11 | appointed | sandell IV |
| Julius Royer | council secretary | City of Dallas | 1871-07 | appointed | sandell IV |
| Benjamin Lang | Mayor 348-246 over Hunt, the first election under Reconstruction. RESOLVED: the 1892 list runs his term 'November 1872 to April 1874' and elects W. L. Cabell in 1874; Cordillot's re-elections of 1873 and 1874 do not appear. | City of Dallas | 1872-11-08 – 1874-04-08 | elected | sandell IV; kagay n77; cordillot |
| Charles Capy | Alderman, First Ward (short term) resigned with the whole council in the charter dispute with Austin — Brown dates the resignation April 24, 1873, Sandell March 20-22; his own 1892 sketch: 'has served as Alderman for the First Ward' | City of Dallas | 1872-11-08 – 1873-03-22 | elected | sandell IV; cordillot |
| Michel Thevenet | Alderman, Third Ward (long term) resigned in the charter dispute (Brown: April 24, 1873) | City of Dallas | 1872-11-08 – 1873-03-22 | elected | sandell IV; brown1892 |
| Henri Boll | City Treasurer a 4-4 council tie broken by Mayor Long; Brown: 'the council elected Henry Boll treasurer'. Boll's own 1892 sketch has him 'elected City and County Treasurer' in 1869, serving three or four years — his dates, not the minutes' | City of Dallas | 1872-11-08 | elected | sandell IV; cordillot |
| F.L. Willemette | Alderman, Ward 1 RESOLVED: the 1892 list of aldermen elected April 1875 has F. L. Willemet and no Capy; the 1875-76 seat is Willemet's. No colonist appears on the lists of 1876-1884. | City of Dallas | 1875-04-10 – 1876 | elected | sandell IV; cordillot |
| Henri Boll | County Clerk undated in Sandell and not in the 1892 county-clerk succession (Jones 1867, Laws 1870, Harwood 1873); probably a reading of Boll's own 'City and County Treasurer' | Dallas County | undated | sandell directory | |
| Benjamin Lang | Sheriff shot dead in 1877 'in a settling of scores between cowboys' | Dallas County | c. 1876 – 1877 | cordillot | |
| Benjamin Lang | U.S. Commissioner | United States | 1877 | appointed | sandell V |
Afterwards
| Who | Position | Body | When | How | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| John B. Louckx | School Director, two terms 'served two terms as School Director' (his 1892 sketch); on the first board, 1884 (Sandell) | City of Dallas | 1884 | elected | sandell III/IV; cordillot; lewis1892 |
| John B. Louckx | Alderman, First Ward, three terms on every April list from 1885 to 1889 and not on 1890's; two-year terms from 1876, so three elections (1885, 1887, 1889); 'resigned on account of moving out of the ward' | City of Dallas | 1885-04 – 1890-04 | elected | sandell IV; cordillot; brown1892; lewis1892 |
| Emil Fretz | founding park commissioner came with Long's 1871 Swiss party, not a colonist | City of Dallas park board | 1904 | appointed | sandell V |
| Francois Cantagrel | municipal councillor, 13e arrondissement | City of Paris | c. 1875 | elected | cordillot |
| Francois Cantagrel | deputy Dallas named a street for him, misspelled (Dallas Herald 6 May 1876) | French Chamber of Deputies | 1876 | elected | kagay n60 |
| Dr. Savardan | mayor of La Chapelle-Gaugain | Sarthe, France | c. 1858 – 1867 | elected | cordillot |
| Alexis Bessard | mayor of Tournus re-elected 1888; succeeded by his son 1896-1908 | Saône-et-Loire, France | 1896 | elected | cordillot (dispersal) |
| Karl Burkli | delegate of the Zurich and Wetzikon sections on the commission that drafted the International's rules; a congress secretary at Lausanne 1867 | AIT congress, Geneva | 1866 | elected | cordillot |
The First International
| Who | Position | Body | When | How | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Charles Capy | founding member; secretary-correspondent every identified member of Section 46 was a colonist | AIT Section 46, Dallas | 1872 – 1876 | elected | cordillot |
| F.L. Willemette | founding member; one of the leaders countersigned Rémond's membership booklet with Capy | AIT Section 46, Dallas | 1872 – 1876 | member | cordillot |
| Christopher D. Frichot | founding member | AIT Section 46, Dallas | 1872 – 1875 | member | cordillot |
| Pierre Philip Frichot | founding member | AIT Section 46, Dallas | 1872 | member | cordillot |
| Jean Priot | member | AIT Section 46, Dallas | 1872 | member | cordillot |
| Emile Remond | member (booklet in the family papers) | AIT Section 46, Dallas | 1872 | member | cordillot |
| Francois Santerre | member | AIT Section 46, Dallas | 1872 – 1875 | member | cordillot |
| Athanase Cretien | member (probable) 'vraisemblablement'; the 1875-76 correspondence is certain | AIT Section 46, Dallas | 1872 – 1876 | member | cordillot |
| Louis Louis | founding member; treasurer | Club républicain, then AIT Section 15, New Orleans | 1871-05-07 – 1871-11 | elected | cordillot |
| Karl Burkli | founder | AIT section, Zurich | 1864 | member | cordillot |
| Victor Prosper Considerant | member | AIT, France | 1869 | member | cordillot |