1771                              Rabbi Isaak Lebrecht, grandfather of Louis Lebrecht, is born. His wife will be Rifka. [Source: Family tree supplied by Hank Lebrecht, April 22, 2006]

January 25, 1810       Rabbi Maier (Moses) Lebrecht, father of Louis Lebrecht, born in Mommersdorf in Baiern, Germany. He is son of Isaak Lebrecht (1771-1853) and Rifka Hermann Lebrecht. He will be the rabbi at the Binger Synagogue in Rheinstrasse. It was built in 1700; adjacent to it stood the Jewish school and rabbi’s residence. [Source: List prepared by Richard Leitsch from records at Bingen am Rhine, and drawing of synagogue, both supplied by Hank Lebrecht, April 22, 2006]

November 30, 1820    Jette Aub, mother of Louis Lebrecht, born in Baiersdorf, Germany. She is daughter of Hirsch Aub and Therese Aub. [Source: List prepared by Richard Leitsch from records at Bingen am Rhine, supplied by Hank Lebrecht, April 22, 2006]

July 6, 1821                 Phillip Dodridge Pollard born in Virginia. He will be father of the two wives of Louis Lebrecht. [Source: Pollard family Bible, copy supplied by Hank Lebrecht, April 22, 2006]

March 1, 1839             Elizabeth Teresa "Lizzie" Deering [later Mrs. Phillip D. Pollard] born. She will be mother of the two wives of Louis Lebrecht. [Source: Pollard family Bible, copy supplied by Hank Lebrecht, April 22, 2006]

June 13, 1844             Rabbi Moses Lebrecht marries Jette Aub. They will be parents of Louis Lebrecht. [Source: List prepared by Richard Leitsch from records at Bingen am Rhine, supplied by Hank Lebrecht, April 22, 2006]

April 3, 1845                Karl Lebrecht, older brother of Louis Lebrecht, born at Bingen am Rhine, Hesse, Germany. Karl will later move to Denison, and family rumor has it that he was murdered there. [Source: List prepared by Richard Leitsch from records at Bingen am Rhine and other information supplied by Hank Lebrecht, April 22, 2006]

July 9, 1847                 Friederike Lebrecht, older brother of Louis Lebrecht, born at Bingen am Rhine, Hesse, Germany. [Source: List prepared by Richard Leitsch from records at Bingen am Rhine, supplied by Hank Lebrecht, April 22, 2006]

November 17, 1847    Friederike Lebrecht, infant older brother of Louis Lebrecht, dies at Bingen am Rhine, Hesse, Germany. [Source: List prepared by Richard Leitsch from records at Bingen am Rhine, supplied by Hank Lebrecht, April 22, 2006]

August 18, 1848         Ludwig (later called Louis) Lebrecht born at Bingen am Rhine, Hesse, Germany. Ludwig’s father was the rabbi at the Binger Synagogue in Rheinstrasse; adjacent to it stood the Jewish school and rabbi’s residence. This was probably the birthplace of Ludwig/Louis. [Source: List prepared by Richard Leitsch from records at Bingen am Rhine, and drawing of synagogue and school, both supplied by Hank Lebrecht, April 22, 2006]

March 1, 1850            Simon Lebrecht, younger brother of Louis Lebrecht, born at Bingen am Rhine, Hesse, Germany. He will become a successful banker in Munich and a cofounder of the Munich stock exchange. He will have two daughters, Elisabeth and Irma. [Source: List prepared by Richard Leitsch from records at Bingen am Rhine, supplied by Hank Lebrecht, April 22, 2006]

1853                              Rabbi Isaak Lebrecht (b. 1771), grandfather of Louis Lebrecht, dies. [Source: Family tree supplied by Hank Lebrecht, April 22, 2006]

July 11, 1853              Isaak Lebrecht, younger brother of Louis Lebrecht, born at Bingen am Rhine, Hesse, Germany. Isaak and his family will later move to Nuremberg. He will have seven children: Hermann, Lina, Franz, Josef, Gretchen, Hans and Lina Liesl. Isaak’s descendants lived in New York and were interviewed on audiotape by Hank Lebrecht. [Source: List prepared by Richard Leitsch from records at Bingen am Rhine, supplied by Hank Lebrecht, April 22, 2006]

July 6, 1857                 Johanna Lebrecht, younger sister of Louis Lebrecht, born at Bingen am Rhine, Hesse, Germany. She will marry Mr. Neustadt and have two children, Adolph Neustadt and Thea Neustadt. Thea will have one child, Adolph, whose son will be Martin. Johanna and her family will move to Nuremberg and from there emigrate to the United States. [Source: List prepared by Richard Leitsch from records at Bingen am Rhine, and other information supplied by Hank Lebrecht, April 22, 2006]

November 29, 1855   Marriage of Phillip Dodridge Pollard and Elizabeth "Lizzie" Terese Deering in Independence, Missouri. They will be parents of the two wives of Louis Lebrecht. [Source: Pollard family Bible, copy supplied by Hank Lebrecht, April 22, 2006]

February 21, 1857     Louis Edgar Pollard, brother of two wives of Louis Lebrecht, born at Independence, Missouri. [Source: Pollard family Bible, copy supplied by Hank Lebrecht, April 22, 2006]

March 26, 1859          Phillip Denver Pollard, brother of two wives of Louis Lebrecht, born at Independence, Missouri. [Source: Pollard family Bible, copy supplied by Hank Lebrecht, April 22, 2006]

1860                             Start of Civil War in the United States.

May 27, 1861               Fannie Waterman Pollard (later Mrs. Louis Lebrecht #1) born at Independence, Missouri. [Sources: Tombstone, Fairview Cemetery, Denison, Texas; Pollard family Bible, copy supplied by Hank Lebrecht, April 22, 2006; U.S. Census of Population, 1880]

October 22, 1866        Ludwig [Louis] Lebrecht arrives in New York City on the ship “Carl E. Hermann” from Bremen, Germany. His age is given as 18 and his birth year about 1848. [Source: Ancestry.com. New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957 (database on-line, Provo UT USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2006). Year: 1866; Arrival: New York, United States; 237-272; Microfilm serial: M237; Microfilm roll M237-272; Line: 37; List number 1182]

March 7, 1868             Carrie Belle Pollard (later Mrs. Louis Lebrecht #2) born in Independence, Missouri. [Sources: “Mrs. L. Lebrecht, Widow”; Pollard family Bible, copy supplied by Hank Lebrecht, April 22, 2006]

1870                              Louis Lebrecht is listed in 1870 U.S. Census of Population: City of Davenport, Scott County, Iowa, Ward 3 (File 2). He is 22 years old, male, white, occupation “clerk in store.” Birthplace is Darmstadt, Hesse. Louis appears to be living with Henry Liveright, a 28-year-old “dealer in liquor” who was born in Bavaria. [Source: 1870 Census Reel No. M593-418, Page 244A; line 21, HN 133, FN 130; courtesy of USGenWeb Project]

Discussion: Live-right is an English translation of the German Leb-recht. It is likely that Henry Liveright was the “H. Lebrecht” of German nationality who arrived in New York from Bremen, Germany, on the ship “Bremen” on March 8, 1861. He was born about 1843. [Source: Ancestry.com. New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957 (database on-line, Provo UT USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2006). Year: 1861; Arrival: New York, United States; Microfilm serial: M237; Microfilm roll M237-208; Line 37; List number 151]

Henry Liveright appears in Iowa in the U.S. Census only in 1870. In 1880, he is a “merchant” living in Osceola Mills, Clearfield, Pennsylvania. Born in Bavaria, he is married to Henrietta and has five children, including a son named Louis (born about 1875) and a daughter named Carrie (born about 1878). In the Censuses of 1900 and 1910, Henry and Henrietta are living in Philadelphia. [Sources: 1880 Census Roll No. T9-1116, Family History Film 1255116; page 342.3000; Enumeration District 273; Image 0688; courtesy of Ancestry.com and the Church of Jesus of Latter-Day Saints]

September 14, 1870  A “Mr. Lebrecht,” a merchant of German nationality, arrives in New York City from Liverpool, England, on the ship “Cuba.” His age is given as 26 and his birth year as about 1844. [Source: Ancestry.com. New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957 (database on-line, Provo UT USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2006). Year: 1870; Arrival: New York, United States; Microfilm serial: M237; Microfilm roll M237-334; Line: 14; List number 882]

1871                              Louis Lebrecht becomes citizen of the United States in Scott County, Iowa. [Source: Hank Lebrecht, 1996; and Janet Greenlee, Naturalization Index of Scott County, Iowa, 1842-1930 (Des Moines: Iowa Genealogical Society, 1981), p. 113]

March 11, 1871           Louis Lebrecht serves as witness at the marriage of Max Simon and Christine Ashbahr; ceremony performed by Justice of the Peace Bl. Peters, in Scott County, Iowa. [Source: USGenWeb Project}

1871                              Carrie Belle Pollard (later Mrs. Louis Lebrecht #2) moves with her family in a covered wagon from Independence, Missouri, to Pilot Point, Texas. [Source: “Mrs. L. Lebrecht, Widow”]

1872                              Louis Lebrecht arrives in Denison, Texas, from Iowa. [Sources: B. C. Murray, “Another Pioneer Called,” Sunday Gazetteer, December 7, 1902; “Retiring from Tax Post”]

1872                              Carrie Belle Pollard (later Mrs. Louis Lebrecht #2) moves with her family from Pilot Point, Texas, to Denison, Texas. [Source: “Mrs. L. Lebrecht, Widow”]

September 23, 1872   Denison Town Company auctions first lots in new town of Denison, Texas.

December 25, 1872    First MKT passenger train arrives in Denison.

December 28, 1872   Louis Lebrecht arrives in New York City from Hamburg, Germany, on the ship “Thuringia.” His age is given as 24 and his birth year about 1848. [Source: Ancestry.com. New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957 (database on-line, Provo UT USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2006). Year: 1872; Arrival: New York, United States; Microfilm serial: M237; Microfilm roll M237-370; Line: 37; List number 1,335]

1873                              Louis Lebrecht founds wine and tobacco business in Denison. [Sources: Hank Lebrecht, 1996; Denison Weekly News, November 13, 1873]

1873                              Carl Lebrecht becomes citizen of the United States in Scott County, Iowa. [Source: Janet Greenlee, Naturalization Index of Scott County, Iowa, 1842-1930 (Des Moines: Iowa Genealogical Society, 1981), p. 113; through Ancestry.com]

June 1, 1873                Ward system of city government adopted in Denison.

Date unknown            An old photograph  shows “three pioneer Denisonians,” Louis Lebrecht, August Knecht, and August Uhlig. Knecht was said to be the father of Mrs. J. W. Williams, 409 West Gandy. Both Knecht and Uhlig were almost certainly close friends of Louis Lebrecht. [Source: Denison Herald, August 31, 1947]

December 28, 1873   Louis Lebrecht arrives in New York City from Hamburg, Germany, and Le Havre, France, on the
ship “Thuringia.” His age is given as 24 and his birth year about 1849. [Source: Ancestry.com.
New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957 (database on-line, Provo UT USA: The Generations Network,
Inc., 2006). Year: 1873; Arrival: New York, United States; Microfilm serial: M237; Microfilm roll
M237-386; Line: 12; List number 1,359]

January 23, 1874       Mrs. Ralph W. Church of Tennessee purchases from the Denison Town Company Lot 1, Block 53, Original Town Plat [100 West Main Street], Denison, for $265. [Source: Grayson County Deed Records, Vol. 26, p. 556]

July 18, 1874              “The firm of Ullman & Lebrecht, wholesale liquor dealers, was dissolved by mutual consent. Louis Lebrecht continued the business.” [Source: “Early Days,” Sunday Gazetteer, August 3, 1902.] No Ullman listed in the first Denison City Directory, 1876-77; but possibly Maurice Ulmann, an officer of the Sons of Herman in the 1890s.

November 1874          Advertisement: “Louis Lebrecht, south side Main street, above Austin [avenue].” Denison Daily News, November 19, 1874.

September 1876        Louis Lebrecht is fined “in one of the billiard cases.” Quite a brouhaha ensues. [Source: “The War Powers of the Denison City Officers,” Denison Daily News, September 23, 1876]

September 23, 1876   Carl Lebrecht advertises himself as: “Atty. and Counselor at Law, No. 228 Main Street, Denison, Texas. Special attention given to cases pertaining to commercial or real estate law.” [Source: Denison Daily News, September 23, 1876.]

September 23, 1876   Louis Lebrecht advertises: “Wholesale Cigars. Louis Lebrecht keeps the best assorted stock of cigars in the city. They are of superior quality, manufactured by the largest and most reliable New York firms. He means to compete with St. Louis prices. Examine his stock before you make your purchases. You will be convinced he is stating ‘FACTS.’” He also states: “Call for the ‘Champion,’ the best and most reliable Havana Filler, ‘Champion Five Cent Cigar.’ Louis Lebrecht is sole agent for Denison.” [Source: Denison Daily News, September 23, 1876.]

1876-1877                    Carl Lebrecht, attorney, has an office at 226-1/2 West Main Street. He lives at the same address. Carl is not listed in subsequent City Directories. Carl (born Karl) was the older brother of Louis Lebrecht and was born in Bingen on the Rhine, Germany, on April 3, 1845. Cousins in New York City heard that he was murdered in Texas. [NEED RESEARCH] [Sources: City Directory; Hank Lebrecht to Mavis Anne Bryant, April 22, 2006]

1876-1877                    Louis Lebrecht has a wholesale wine, liquor, tobacco, and cigar business at 226 West Main Street. He boards at the European Restaurant, 223 West Main Street. The European Restaurant is owned by Joseph H. Frank and managed by Mrs. J. H. Frank, “who gives the culinary department her personal attention.” The Franks reside on the south side of Woodard Street between Barrett and Mirick avenues. [Source: City Directory]

1876-1877                    Edward Coopman is clerk at Louis Lebrecht, 226 West Main Street. He rooms at 226 West Main Street and boards at the New Orleans Restaurant. [Source: City Directory] [Note: I find no other mention of a New Orleans Restaurant in Denison at this time.]

1876-1877                    Phillip Pollard Sr., a tinsmith, has shop at 319 West Main Street. He resides on the south side of Main Street between Mirick and Armstrong avenues. [Source: City Directory]

1876-1877                    Phillip Pollard Jr. works at J. [John] B. Lalonde, a cotton gin and grist mill. Boards with Phillip Pollard Sr. [Source: City Directory]

1876-1877                    John Hoerr and August Hoerr own J. Hoerr & Brother, manufacturing soda, mineral water, and ginger ale. The factory is located on the corner of Morton Street and Fannin Avenue in Denison. John resides on the south side of Morton between Burnett and Fannin avenues (the same place as the factory). August lives in Dallas, Texas. An advertisement in the City Directory lists a second location for the company on the north side of the square in Dallas, Texas. [Source: City Directory]

1877                              Louis Lebrecht helps to found Verein Vorwaerts (“singing society and Turnverein”) in June and serves as its first president. He finances construction of Vorwaerts Hall. He will be president of the organization for the next twenty-five years. He will form the Gesangtsection (Singing Section), a choral group, and serve as its director until his death. [Sources: City Directory, 1901-1902; Hank Lebrecht, 1996]

April 12, 1878              Louis Lebrecht receives state charter of Verein Vorwaerts from Austin. [Source: Sunday Gazetteer, April 17, 1898]

September 12, 1878  Louis Lebrecht is selling Julius Winkelmeyer & Co. (a union brewery) Lager Beer, bottled in St. Louis, Missouri. [Source: Denison Daily News, September 12, 1878]

1879                              Louis Lebrecht unanimously elected president of Society Vorwaerts for the third time. [Source: Denison Daily News, [date? June?] 1879]

February 24, 1879     Concert and Ball at Nolan Hall, Society Vorwaerts. Louis Lebrecht is on the Committee of Arrangements, along with J. A. Euper, J. W. Steiner, H. Casper, M. L. Werner, and Phil. Ledrick. Floor managers are W. J. Scott and J. A. Euper. Among the musicians performing in the concert are: Mrs. A. W. Acheson (vocal solo), Mr. Bergman, Mr. Dunn, Mr. Eppstein, Mr. J. A. Euper, Mr. W. Everett (violin solo), Mr. J. G. Gnase (cornet solo), Mr. Leuder, Mr. Riley, Mr. Rost, Mr. V. Russo (flute solo), Mrs. F. A. Shulze (vocal solo), Mr. M. L. Werner, and the Vorwaerts Orchestra. Among the works performed are a medley, “Rage in Denison,” by Riviere; and “ Express Train,” by Kalkbrenner. [Source: “Society Vorwaerts Concert and Gall at Nolan Hall, Monday Eve, February 24, 1879,” flyer in collection of Hank Lebrecht]

March 5, 1879             Louis Lebrecht purchases from Harry Mamlok Lots 15-18, Block 11, Miller’s First Addition [500 block West Woodard Street, north side (now part of First Baptist Church site)], Denison, for $1,100. [Source: Grayson County Deed Records, Vol. 41, p. 509; see also Vol. 45, p. 18; and replat record at Vol. 1127, p. 405 (Feb. 12, 1969)]

May 27, 1879                    Louis Lebrecht married Fannie Waterman Pollard in the parlors of the Binkley House. [The Daily
                                      News, Wednesday, May 8, 1879, pg.4]  The U.S. Census Schedule for 1880 lists Louis Lebrecht and
                                      wife Fannie W. living on Gandy Street, Denison, Texas, in June 1880. See also an elaborate
                                      monument at Fairview Cemetery, which reads “Fannie W. Lebrecht, nee Pollard, wife of Louis
                                      Lebrecht.” And Sunday Gazetteer editor B. C. Murray, in Louis Lebrecht’s obituary (December 7,
                                     1902), states that Louis was married twice, to sisters.  However, at the Grayson County Courthouse,
                                     I could not find any record of the marriage between Fannie and Louis. And in August 18, 1956, Walter
                                    P. Lebrecht, still a Denison City Commissioner, signed a sworn affidavit declaring that “Louis
                                    Lebrecht or L. Lebrecht was married only one time and that was to my mother Carrie B. Lebrecht. . . .
                                    My father was married only one time and that was to my mother.” And two elderly women, Rosalee
                                    Herzinger and Adele R. (Mrs. Martin) Kohl, longtime members of the German-American community in
                                    Denison, similarly swore that “the said Louis Lebrecht . . . was never married but one time and that
                                    was to his wife, Carrie B. Lebrecht.” [Source: Grayson County Deed Records, Vol. 842, pp. 339-44]      

June 17, 1879             Society Vorwaerts celebrates second anniversary of its founding. [Source: Denison Daily News, [date? June?] 1879]

August 25, 1879         From Harry Mamlok, Louis Lebrecht gets clear title to Lots 15-18, Block 11, Miller’s First Addition [500 block West Woodard Street, north side (now part of First Baptist Church site)]. [Source: Grayson County Deed Records, Vol. 45, p. 18; see also Vol. 41, p. 509]

November 29, 1879    Louis Lebrecht purchases from Harry Mamlok Lot 10, Block 10, Miller’s First Addition [617 West Gandy Street], Denison, for $800. [Source: Grayson County Deed Records, Vol. 44, p. 432]

March 31, 1880           Louis Lebrecht purchases Lot 13, Block 39, Original Town Plat [121 West Woodard Street], Denison, from the Denison Town Company for $200. [Source: Grayson County Deed Records, Vol. 46, pp. 152-53]

April 20, 1880              Louis Lebrecht sells Lot 15, Block 65, Original Town Plat [130 West Crawford Street; southeast corner of West Crawford Street and South Austin Avenue], Denison, to Harry Mamlock [sic] for $150. [Source: Grayson County Deed Records, Vol. 45, p. 369] Note that Louis Lebrecht will sell this property again; see December 8, 1884, and Grayson County Deed Records, Vol. 63, p. 306.

June 1880                    U.S. Census of 1880 taken. Census schedule lists Louis Lebrecht, “tobacco and liquor dealer,” age 31, and Fannie W., his wife, age 19 (“keeps house”), living on Gandy Street. Both can read and write. The schedule reports that Louis, his father, and his mother all were born in “Hesse, Germany.” Fannie is said to have been born in Missouri, her father in Virginia, and her mother in Kentucky. Listed in the next house on Gandy Street are Joseph A. Euper, confectioner, age 29, and his wife Carrie B., age 24. History credits Euper as the inventor of the ice cream soda; later he was to serve many years as fire chief of the City of Denison.

March 31, 1882           Louis Lebrecht purchases Lot 2, Block 10, Miller’s First Addition [ca. 614 West Sears Street], Denison, from Joseph and Phillomena Cottreaux for $150. Notary public is W. T. Roberts, Cooke County. [Source: Grayson County Deed Records, Vol. 52, p. 187]

September 15, 1882   Louis Lebrecht arrives in New York City from Antwerp, Belgium, on the ship “Waesland.” His age is given as 38 and his birth year about 1844. [Source: Ancestry.com. New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957 (database on-line, Provo UT USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2006). Year: 1882; Arrival: New York, United States; Microfilm serial: M237; Microfilm roll M237-457; Line: 7; List number 1,322]

October 31, 1882        Louis Lebrecht purchases Lot 1, Block 10, Miller’s First Addition [ca. 614 West Sears Street], Denison, from Mr. and Mrs. P. H. Blummer for $300. [Source: Grayson County Deed Records, Vol. 54, p. 168]

December 21, 1882    Fannie W. Pollard Lebrecht dies. Buried in the Pollard plot at Fairview Cemetery, Denison. [Sources: Tombstone; Hank Lebrecht, 1996]

March 8, 1883             Louis Lebrecht purchases Lot 14, Block 39, Original Town Plat [119 West Woodard Street], Denison, from John Lueders for $200. Notary public is Harrison Tone. [Source: Grayson County Deed Records, Vol. 56, p. 83]

Summer 1883             Louis Lebrecht makes two-month trip to Germany to visit parents. Records of the ship “Elbe” show a “Ludwig Lebrecht” arriving in New York from Bremen, Germany, and Southampton, England, on September 22, 1883. His age is given as 28 and his birth date as 1855, not 1844. He is listed as an American citizen. [Sources: Hank Lebrecht, 1996, quoting Sunday Gazetteer, June 1883; and Ancestry.com. New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957 (database on-line, Provo UT USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2006). Year: 1883; Arrival: New York, United States; Microfilm serial: M237; Microfilm roll M237-470; Line: 18; List number 1,216]

October 17, 1883        Louis Lebrecht purchases Lot 1, Block 53, Original Town Plat [100 West Main Street], Denison, from Ralph W. Church and Mary (Mrs. R. W.) Church for $2,500. Notary public is J. T. Cunningham. [Source: Grayson County Deed Records, Vol. 58, p. 478.]

1884                              Louis Lebrecht helps to found Denison Philharmonic Orchestra. [Source: City Directory; Hank Lebrecht, 1996; Maguire, p. 81]

1884                              Lebrecht Building, 100-104 West Main Street, is dedicated. [Source: Date on top of building in photographs]

January 2, 1884          Louis Lebrecht purchases Lot 2, Block 53, Original Town Plat [102 West Main Street], Denison, from Thomas Lindenfelser and Elizabeth Lindenfelser for $2,500. Notary public is Harrison Tone. [Source: Grayson County Deed Records, Vol. 60, p. 102. See also Grayson County Deed Records, Vol. 60, p. 267; and Lindenfelser affidavits in Vol. 59, pp. 170-71; in Vol. 71, p. 468-70; and in Vol. 78, pp. 351-52. And see Thomas Lindenfelser, Grayson County Probate Records, Nos. 1107 and 1123.]

January 2, 1884          Louis Lebrecht sells Lots 1, 2, and 10, Block 10, Miller’s First Addition [ca. 614 West Sears Street and 617 West Gandy Street], Denison, to Thomas Lindenfelser for $2,350. Notary public is Harrison Tone. [Source: Grayson County Deed Records, Vol. 60, p. 267. See also Grayson County Deed Records, Vol. 60, p. 102; and Lindenfelser affidavits in Vol. 59, pp. 170-71; in Vol. 71, p. 468-70; and in Vol. 78, pp. 351-52. And see Thomas Lindenfelser, Grayson County Probate Records, Nos. 1107 and 1123.]

September 13, 1884   Louis Lebrecht sells to Anna Rainey Lots 13 and 14, Block 39, Original Town Plat [119 and 121 West Woodard Street], Denison, for $1,875. Notary public is Harrison Tone. [Source: Grayson County Deed Records, Vol. 61, p. 472]

September 13, 1884   John Lueders sells to Anna Rainey Lots 11 and 12, Block 39, Original Town Plat [123 and 125 West Woodard Street], Denison, for $1,875. Notary public is Harrison Tone. [Source: Grayson County Deed Records, Vol. 61, p. 473]

September 16, 1884   Louis Lebrecht and John Lueders purchase from James W. Rainey and wife Anna Rainey Lot 3, Block 53, Original Town Plat [104 West Main Street], Denison, for $4,000. [Source: Grayson County Deed Records, Vol. 61, p. 470; see also Vol. 61, p. 310]

September 26, 1884   Louis Lebrecht sells Lots 15-18, Block 11, Miller’s First Addition [in 500 block West Woodard Street, north side (now part of First Baptist Church site)], Denison, to John W. Bennett for $2,000—$500 in cash; a note for $500 due September 15, 1884; and a note for $1,000, drawing 10% interest per year until paid. Notary public is A. B. Person. [Source: Grayson County Deed Records, Vol. 62, p. 453]

November 10, 1884    John Lueders borrows $1,500 from Owen McCarthy, using Lot 3, Block 53, Original Town Plat [104 West Main Street], Denison, as collateral for the note, which is payable to P. McGreevey. [Source: Grayson County Deed Records, Vol. 136, pp. 144-45; see Grayson County Deed Records, Book 9, pp. 252ff.]

November 12, 1884    Louis Lebrecht sells to John Lueders “an undivided one-half interest in and to” Lot 3, Block 53, Original Town Plat [104 West Main Street], Denison, for $1,850. Notary public is A. H. Coffin. [Source: Grayson County Deed Records, Vol. 63, p. 77]

December 8, 1884      Louis Lebrecht sells to S. M. Quinn (female), Lot 15, Block 65, Original Town Plat [130 West Crawford Street—southeast corner of West Crawford Street and South Austin Avenue], Denison, for $300. Notary public is Harrison Tone. [Source: Grayson County Deed Records, Vol. 63, p. 306] Note: Louis Lebrecht had sold this property before; see above, April 20, 1880, and Grayson County Deed Records, Vol. 45, p. 369.

1886                             The Lebrecht Building is depicted twice in Henry Wellge’s bird’s-eye view of Denison. The rear of the Lebrecht Building is shown in the map itself. And an inset frontal view of all buildings (the Lebrecht Building among them) on the south side of Main Street appears in the lower right corner of the map. Wellge (1850-1917) was born in Germany and was an artist, lithographer, architect, and publisher based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, between 1878 and 1910. During this time he produced more than 150 city views, including at least nine Texas views, almost all printed by the Milwaukee firm of Beck & Pauli. [Source: “Patterns of Progress: Bird’s Eye Views of Texas,” exhibit at Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, February 18–May 28, 2006; and associated Web site, www.birdseyeviews.org.]

March 8, 1886             Walter Phillip Lebrecht born at 520 West Crawford Street in Denison. [Sources: City of Denison death records; “Lebrechts to Observe Golden Anniversary”; “Retiring from Tax Post”]

March 29, 1886           Myrtle Azola Walton [later Mrs. Louis H. Lebrecht] born at Denison. [Source: City of Denison death records]

September 8, 1886    Party wall agreement for Lot 3, Block 53, Original Town Plat [104 West Main Street], Denison. Louis Lebrecht sells to John Lueders for $608.20 “an equal and undivided one-half interest in and to the stone foundation and brick wall now standing on the West line” of Lot 2, Block 53, Original Town Plat [102 West Main Street], Denison, “with the privilege of attaching thereto and using the same for building purposes so long as said wall shall stand.” Harrison Tone is notary public. [Source: Grayson County Deed Records, Vol. 69, p. 245]

September 8, 1886     Another party wall agreement for Lot 3, Block 53, Original Town Plat [104 West Main Street], Denison. M. E. Fleming and wife Sallie V. Fleming sell to John Lueders for $415.85 “one-half interest in and to the store foundation and brick wall now standing on the East line of Lot 4, Block 53, Original Town Plat [106 West Main Street], Denison, “with the privilege of attaching thereto and using the same for building purposes so long as said wall shall stand.” Also “John Lueders may add to the dimensions of said wall in height and that the new wall thus built by said Lueders shall be his own property . . . and shall not be attached to or used for building purposes by the said M. E. and S. V. Fleming until one-half the cost of building such additional height shall have been paid to said Lueders . . . said cost not to exceed $9 per thousand for brick and $2 per perch [?] for stone work.” W. M. Peck is notary public. [Source: Grayson County Deed Records, Vol. 69, p. 246]

September 9, 1886     John Lueders borrows $1,800 from T. B. Hanna, using Lot 3, Block 53, Original Town Plat [104 West Main Street], Denison, as collateral for the note, which is payable to Coffin & Zintgraff. [Source: Grayson County Deed Records, Vol. 136, pp. 144-45; see Grayson County Mortgage Records, Book K, p. 141]

July 20, 1887               Louis Lebrecht writes letter to wife Carrie, who with son Walter is visiting her sister, Lilly Pollard Anderson, in Kansas. Louis tells of his recent speeches against Prohibition, anticipating an election on August 4. He plans to attend a rally of Anti-Prohibitionists in Fort Worth on July 26. The letter is written on letterhead of “McDougall Hotel, McDougall & Bouchard, proprietors.” [Source: Letter in collection of Hank Lebrecht; copy supplied April 22, 2006]

1887-1888                    At 100 West Main Street is Louis Lebrecht’s business, dealing in “wholesale cigars, tobacco, and pipes.” John Lueders is traveling salesman for Louis Lebrecht.

1887-1888                    Rooming above 100 West Main Street is Charles T. Richter. Richter and Thomas J. Crooks together own T. J. Crooks & Co., proprietors and publishers of the Gate City Guide. The Guide, which is issued every Monday, has its office at 100 West Woodard Street, at the corner of North Houston Avenue. Thomas J. Crooks is editor. He is also a city alderman (First Ward). [Source: City Directory]

1887-1888                    Rooming above 100 West Main Street is Charles Hemingway, a clerk at James H. Porter, groceries, provisions, feed, located at 128-130 West Main Street, at the corner of Austin Avenue. There Charles works with Tobias Porter, a cotton buyer who is also a city alderman (Fourth Ward). Charles himself serves as secretary-treasurer for the Denison Rescue Hook and Ladder Co. No. 1. [Source: City Directory]

1887-1888                     At 104 West Main Street is the French Kitchen Hotel and Restaurant. Ed Castiau is proprietor. “Rates, $1.00 per day. Single Meals, 25 cents. Furnished Rooms to Rent. Newly Furnished. Open Day and Night. Fresh Oysters Served in Any Style.” Waiter at the restaurant is Emil Castiau. Leopold Castiau, a clerk, lives with Ed and Emil at the French Kitchen Hotel. [Source: City Directory]

1887-1888                     Boarding at the French Kitchen is Thomas Campbell, brick layer. [Source: City Directory]

1887-1888                    At 104 West Main Street is Thompson and Lott (colored), “barbers, shop and bath rooms.” The principals are Joseph Thompson, residing at 702 West Walker Street; and Sylvester Lott, living at 519 West Bond Street. [Source: City Directory]

1887-1888                    Louis Lebrecht lives at 706 West Main Street. Also living there are Phillip D. Pollard Sr., Phillip D. Pollard Jr., and Edward L. Pollard. [Source: City Directory]

1887-1888                    Phillip D. Pollard Sr. is a tinner living at 706 West Main Street. [Source: City Directory]

1887-1888                    Phillip D. Pollard Jr. works at Waters-Pierce Oil Co. He lives at 706 West Main Street. Also living there is Edward L. Pollard, a tinner employed at Hanna, Leeper & Co. [Source: City Directory]

1887-1888                    At 305 West Main Street is August Knecht [Sr.], barber. He also has a “barber shop and bath rooms” at 203 West Main Street. He resides at 428 West Sears Street at the corner of North Fannin Avenue. [Source: City Directory]

December 12, 1888    Jette Aub, mother of Louis Lebrecht, dies in Germany. [Source: List prepared by Richard Leitsch from records at Bingen am Rhine, supplied by Hank Lebrecht, April 22, 2006]

1889                              Ivory and onyx baton is presented to Louis Lebrecht in honor of his service as leader of the Singing Section of the Verein Vorwaerts. [Source: Hank Lebrecht, 1996]

February 11, 1889     Bertha Beatrice Walton [later Mrs. Walter P. Lebrecht] born at Denison. [Source: City of Denison death records]

April 26, 1889              P. D. Pollard, L. E. Pollard, P. D. Pollard Jr., Lillie May Pollard, Louis Lebrecht, and Louis’s wife Carrie Belle Pollard Lebrecht sell Lots 4 and 5, Block 2, Layne’s Addition [708 West Main Street], Denison, to Hazen F. Wooster for $4,000. [Source: Grayson County Deed Records, Vol. 81, p. 28]

May 8, 1889                 Louis Lebrecht and wife Carrie Belle Pollard Lebrecht sell to Phillip D. Pollard 29 acres on Iron Ore Creek (described as two tracts: one of 28 acres out of the William Oldham Survey, and another of 1 acre out of the I. G. Belcher Survey) for $300. Harrison Tone is notary. Family members will always refer to this property as “the farm.” [Sources: Grayson County Deed Records, Vol. 81, p. 87; see also Vol. 65, p. 622; and Vol. 81, p. 27. Hank Lebrecht, phone conversation, May 20, 2006]

May 23, 1889               Louis Lebrecht gives John W. Bennett clear title to Lots 15-18, Block 11, Miller’s First Addition [in 500 block West Woodard Street, north side (now part of First Baptist Church site)], Denison, all notes due on the property having been paid in full. [Source: Grayson County Deed Records, Vol. 80, p. 539]

1889-1890                    Louis Lebrecht serves as president of the Verein Vorwaerts and leader of its Singing Section. The Verein maintains a German Sunday School (in German) from 9 to 12 on Sunday mornings. Louis Lebrecht is the teacher. [Source: City Directory]

1889-1890                    Louis Lebrecht’s business in “wholesale cigars, tobacco, and pipes” is at 100 West Main Street. His residence is at 512 West Woodard Street. In 1893-1894, Fred Lebrecht will live here with Phillip D. Pollard Sr. and Louis E. Pollard. [Source: City Directory]

1889-1890                    At 104 West Main Street is the French Kitchen Hotel and Restaurant; Edward Castiau is the proprietor. He lives on the premises. Neither Emil Castiau nor Leopold Castiau is listed in the City Directory for this year. [Source: City Directory]

1889-1890                    Boarding at the French Kitchen Restaurant is W. R. Robinson, compositor, Denison Evening Herald. Interestingly, T. C. Robinson, another compositor at the Evening Herald, boards at the Thompson House. [Source, City Directory]

1889-1890                    At 104 West Main Street is Thompson and Lott (colored), barbers. The principals are Joseph Thompson, residing at 702 West Walker Street; and Sylvester Lott, residing at 519 West Bond Street. [Source: City Directory]

1889-1890                    Phillip Pollard, a tinner, lives at 1009 West Main Street. [Source: City Directory]

1889-1890                    P. D. Pollard is a tinner employed at Hanna, Cowles & Co., a hardware house at 111 West Main Street. He lives at 113 West Woodard Street. [Source: City Directory]

1889-1890                    L. E. Pollard is a tinner employed at Lingo, Waples & Co., a wholesale hardware house. He resides at 113 West Woodard Street. [Source: City Directory]

1889-1890                     Willis Peel, a grocer, lives at 619 West Munson Street. [Source: City Directory]

1889-1890                     James S. Walton, a painter, lives at 1321 South Houston Avenue. James S. Walton and Lola Ann Green Walton are the parents of Bertha Beatrice Walton (Mrs. Walter G.) Lebrecht and Myrtle Walton (Mrs. Louis H.) Lebrecht. Two other Waltons are listed in the City Directory for this year. One is Edward Walton, teller at State National Bank, who lives at 610 West Gandy Street. The other, whose name is illegible, is a telegraph operator for the MK&T Railway; he boards at 406 West Main Street. [Source: City Directory; City of Denison death records]

1889-1890                     Dr. J. G. Ellis appears in City Directory for first time. Office is at 314 West Main Street; home at 705 West Morton Street. Also officing at 314 West Main Street are Dr. W. S. Noble and Dr. A. [Albert] L. Thompson (colored). [Source: City Directory]

July 21, 1890                 Wi du Kind Lodge, No. 9, ODHS, Sons of Hermann, organized in Denison.

September 24, 1890   Louis Lebrecht purchases from Jay P. Avery and wife L. N. Avery Lot 9, Block 9, Miller’s First Addition [729 West Gandy Street], for $2,550. He paid $950 cash and assumed responsibility for three notes for $750, $400, and $450. These notes were not paid off, and after Louis’s death in 1902, Carrie had to deal with them. [Source: Grayson County Deed Records, Vol. 89, p. 521; see also Vol. 86, p. 48; Vol. 156, pp. 387-89 and 397-401; and Vol. 182, p. 402]

November 20, 1890   Louis Lebrecht purchases from Paul Verkin, photographer, and wife Lillie Verkin, Lot 6, Block 9, Miller’s Second Addition [1116 West Elm Street], Denison, for $350. [Source: Grayson County Deed Records, Vol. 91, p. 159]

August 11, 1889         Louis H. [STANDS FOR WHAT?] Lebrecht born in Denison, Texas. He will die in Tucson, Arizona. [Source: ?]

September 20, 1894   Julius Steiner (“Jay”) Lebrecht born in Denison, Texas. He is named after J. W. Steiner, a Denison resident in 1879. [Source: Hank Lebrecht, 2006; “Society Vorwarts Concert and Ball.”]

July 31, 1899               Frank Gooding Lebrecht born in Denison, Texas. [Source: ?]

1891                             Thaddeus Mortimer Fowler’s bird’s-eye view of Denison is published. The front of the Lebrecht Building is depicted. Fowler (1842-1922) trained as a photographer in the Civil War and afterwards worked in photography studios in Madison, Wisconsin, and Chicago. During a train journey through Oklahoma and North Texas in 1890 and 1891, he produced at least seventeen views of different Texas cities, among them Denison, Sherman, and Whitewright. [Source: “Patterns of Progress: Bird’s Eye Views of Texas,” exhibit at Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, February 18-May 28, 2006; and associated Web site, www.birdseyeviews.org.]

1891-1892                    At 100 West Main Street is Pacific Express Co., W. C. Lyall, agent. Lyall resides at 509 West Woodard Street. He also is agent for Wells Fargo Express. [Source: City Directory]

1891-1892                    Messenger for the Pacific Express Co. is E. C. Frackes. He boards at Beck’s Hotel, 104 West Main Street, and rooms with Mrs. Nellie Cregier (widow of William A. Cregier). She offers furnished rooms at 131 West Sears Street at the corner of Austin Avenue. [Source: City Directory]

1891-1892                    Louis Lebrecht’s business in “wholesale cigars, tobacco, and pipes” is at 102 West Main Street. “Agent for Cortado and Prize Crop Cigars.” He lives at 729 West Gandy Street, at the corner of Armstrong Avenue. [Source: City Directory]

1891-1892                    Edward Esser is salesman for Louis Lebrecht. He rooms upstairs over 100 West Main Street and boards at Beck’s Hotel and Restaurant, 104 West Main Street. [Source: City Directory]

1891-1892                    Levi Burton (colored) is porter at Louis Lebrecht. [Source: City Directory]

1891-1892                    Upstairs at 102 West Main Street is the office of Foster & Wilkinson (Robert C. Foster, Alfred E. Wilkinson), attorneys for receivers of the MK&T Railway. Robert C. Foster is assistant secretary and general agent for the MK&T Railway, south division. He lives on the northwest corner of West Sears and North Tone Avenue. Alfred E. Wilkinson lives at 1128 West Sears at the corner of Perry Avenue. [Source: City Directory]

1891-1892                    Upstairs at 102 West Main Street is the office of John Fowler, attorney. He boards at the McDougall Hotel, Union Depot; and rooms with W. F. Yocum. William F. Yocum is a clerk at Lewis, Rosenberg & Co., “clothing, gents furnishing goods,” 203 West Main Street. Yocum lives at 705 West Woodard Street. [Source: City Directory]

1891-1892                   At 104 West Main Street is Beck’s Hotel and Restaurant. “Deutsches Gast Haus. Near the Depot. Furnished Rooms. Meals 25 Cents. Game and Oysters in Season. Rates $1 to $1.25 per Day. Open Day and Night.” Max Beck is proprietor. He lives on the premises. [Source: City Directory]

1891-1892                    John Klett is first cook at Beck’s Hotel; lives on the premises. [Source: City Directory]

1891-1892                    Henry Young (colored), second cook, Beck’s Hotel. He lives at 214 West Crawford Street.

1891-1892                    S. A. Carlson, foreman of stonemason gang, MK&T Railway, boards at Beck’s Hotel. [Source: City Directory]

1891-1892                    Oscar Jones, fireman for the Houston & Texas Central Railway, boards at Beck’s Hotel. [Source: City Directory]

1891-1892                    Charles McDonald, a tinner at Pettit & Waltz, boards at Beck’s Hotel. Pettit & Waltz (Frank S. Pettit, Christian Waltz) are plumbers, water, gas and steam fitters, and manufacturers of galvanized iron cornices; located at 311 West Main Street. [Source: City Directory]

1891-1892                    At 104 West Main Street is Thompson and Lott (colored), barbers. Joseph Thompson lives at 305 West Bond Street. Sylvester Lott lives at 217 West Crawford Street. One barber at Thompson and Lott is Isaac McCracken (colored); he lives at 616 West Morton Street. Living at that address, too, is Ida M. McCracken, teacher in the second ward public school. [Source: City Directory]

1891-1892                    Phillip D. Pollard Jr. is a tinner at Leeper Hardware Co. He rooms at 702 West Main Street. Phillip D. Pollard Sr. is not listed in City Directory. [Source: City Directory]

1891-1892                    Louis E. Pollard is a tinner at Leeper Hardware Co. His residence is at 515 North Burnett Avenue. [Source: City Directory]

1891-1892                    Edward Pollard is foreman tinner at Leeper Hardware Co. His residence is at 515 North Burnett Avenue. [Source: City Directory]

1891-1892                    Willis Peel is a clerk at George W. McNeelan, a store selling groceries, dry goods, notions, and general merchandise at 624 West Munson Street. Willis Peel lives at 619 West Munson Street. George W. McNeelan resides at 630 West Munson Street. [Source: City Directory]

1891-1892                    The City Directory lists two “colored” Pollards. Lizzie Pollard lives in the home of David Miller (colored), hod carrier, residence at 220 West Crawford Street. Oscar Pollard lives at 301 West Bond Street; no occupation is given. [Source: City Directory]

1891-1892                    Brown & Hoerr operates the “Cabinet Saloon” at 224 West Main Street. Stephen T. Brown and Louis Hoerr are the owners. [Source: City Directory]

March 27, 1892           Phillip D. Lebrecht born in Denison, Texas. He will die in Southern California in 1978, be cremated, and his ashes scattered. [Source: Hank Lebrecht to Mavis Bryant, April 22, 2006]

December 29, 1892    Wartburg Lodge, No. 62, Sons of Hermann, organized in Denison.

1893-1894                    Louis Lebrecht’s business as “exclusive wholesale dealer in cigars and pipes” is at 102 West Main Street. He lives at 729 West Gandy Street. [Source: City Directory]

1893-1894                    At 102 West Main Street is Burton and Lott (colored), barbers. Principals are Edward D. Burton, who resides at 314 West Main Street; and Sylvester Lott, living at 519 West Bond Street. [Source: City Directory]

1893-1894                    Levi B. Burton (colored) is porter at Louis Lebrecht. He resides at 609 West Bond Street. [Source: City Directory]

1893-1894                    At 104 West Main Street is Beck’s Hotel and Restaurant (“Deutsches Gast Haus”). “Furnished Rooms” are offered. Max Beck is the proprietor, and he resides at the hotel. Albert Uhlig is a waiter at the hotel and lives on the premises. [Source: City Directory]

[WHAT ABOUT FRED LEBRECHT?]

1893-1894                    Fred Lebrecht resides at 512 West Woodard Street. Also living at this address are Phillip D. Pollard Sr. and Louis E. Pollard. [Source: City Directory]

1893-1894                    The firm of Pollard & Creager is at 305 West Main Street. Owners are L. E. Pollard and John W. Creager. Creager resides at 600 West Munson Street. [Source: City Directory]

1893-1894                    Louis E. Pollard lives at 512 West Woodard Street. [Source: City Directory]

1893-1894                    Phillip D. Pollard Sr. is employed at Pollard and Creager. He lives at 512 West Woodard Street. [Source: City Directory]

1893-1894                    Phillip D. Pollard Jr. is employed at Pollard and Creager. He rooms at 504 West Main Street. [Source: City Directory]

1893-1894                     Willis Peel is clerk at Wright and Burdge, a grocery store at 723 South Crockett Avenue at the corner of East Day Street. Peel is living at 810 South Crockett Avenue. Store owners are Lewis Burdge, who lives at 225 East Day Street; and D. D. Wright, whose residence is at 301 West Hanna Street. [Source: City Directory]

1893-1894                     August Knecht lives at 428 West Sears Street. Also living there is Mrs. Carrie Knecht. August has a barber shop at 302 West Main Street. He and Otto Genseke are proprietors of the Columbia Restaurant, “Ladies and Gents Dining Parlors; Traveling Public Special Attention,” located at 209 West Main Street upstairs. Otto Genseke resides on the premises. [Source: City Directory]

1894                              Louis Lebrecht is acting as “trustee” for Pettit & Waltz, “Tinners, Plumbers and Gas Fitters.” [Source: Printed letterhead for invoices in Probate File #1107 (Thomas Lindenfelser), Grayson County Courthouse, Sherman, Texas.] Partners in Pettit & Waltz are Frank S. Pettit and Christian Waltz. [Source: City Directory, 1891-1892]

1894                              William H. Pollard born. His father is Charles Y. Pollard. [Source: City of Denison death records, Book 6, Page 175]

1895                              Photograph of Lebrecht Building published in [Decker], Art Work of Grayson County, part 5.

1895                              Denison Maenerchor, Sons of Hermann, organized. John Sigel is musical director.

1896                              Fuerstin Bismarck Lodge, No. 6, Auxiliary to ODHS, Sons of Hermann, organized in Denison.

April 7, 1896                 Louis Lebrecht elected mayor of Denison, defeating Col. A. [Alfred] B. Person. Col. Person was leader of the local American Protective Association (APA). [Sources: Sunday Gazetteer, April 12, 1896; Hank Lebrecht, 1996; City Directory, 1891-1892]

August 7, 1896            Louis Lebrecht and William Scholz attest to the identity of Loren Wahnsen, alias Lawrence Wahnsen. Loren and his wife, Margaretha Wahnsen, “were man and wife before they came to Texas about 1875.” He had no children. He died about November 26, 1877. At that time he and his wife were living on Lots Nos. 9 and 10, Block 81, Original Town Plat [NEED STREET ADDRESS], Denison, which was their homestead. Margaretha later married Earl Hoffman. [Source: Grayson County Deed Records, Vol. 116, p. 386] Note: No Wahnsen or Earl Hoffman is listed in the Denison City Directories through 1900. In 1896, William Scholz was a gardener living at 315 East Morton Street. [Source: City Directory]

1896-1897                    Louis Lebrecht’s business in “wholesale cigars and tobacco” is at 100 West Main Street. His residence is at 729 West Gandy Street. [Source: City Directory]

1896-1897                    Levie B. Burten [Levi B. Burton] (colored) works for Louis Lebrecht. His residence is at 613 North Mirick Avenue. [Source: City Directory]

1896-1897                    102 West Main Street is vacant. But at 102-1/2 West Main Street is Ed [Edward] D. Burton (colored), barber. He rooms above 314 West Main Street. [Source: City Directory]

1896-1897                    “Burton’s Bath Parlors. No. 102 Main Street. Ladies and Children Hair Cutting a Specialty. Russian Baths to Ladies Tuesdays and Fridays. We are prepared to give Vapor Baths which are highly recommended for Debilitated and Rheumatic Sufferers.” [Source: Program, Denison Opera House, November 19, 1896; February 16, 1897]

                                      “If you need a shave, hair cut, Turkish bath or all, you should try Burton’s Barber Shop, No. 102 Main Street. Thursday and Friday Ladies and Children’s. Lady in Attendance.” [Source: Program, Denison Opera House, n.d. (1897?)]

1896-1897                    At 314 West Main Street on the ground floor is the City Shoe Store and J. P. Marsh, shoes. On the second floor is Dr. J. G. Ellis, “specialist.” Dr. Ellis lives at 905 West Morton Street. Also rooming at 314 West Main Street is Edward D. Burton (colored), barber. [Source: City Directory]

1896-1897                    At 104 West Main Street is City Hotel and Restaurant. L. [Louis] Lebrecht is the proprietor. Ira Williams is clerk. He lives on the premises. [Source: City Directory]

1896-1897                    James Jones, a butcher at Strait & Wells, rooms at the City Hotel and Restaurant. Strait & Wells (Jeremiah T. Strait and Frank W. Wells, proprietors) is a meat market at 125 West Main Street; the feed stable is at 420 South Mirick Avenue. Strait lives at 516 West Crawford Street; Wells lives at 1024 West Nelson Street. [Source: City Directory]

1896-1897                    John Weidmer, machinist at MKT shops, and Gottlieb Weidmer, who works at the MKT shops, both board at the City Hotel. [Source: City Directory]

1896-1897                    Fred Lebrecht works at Katy freight depot and rooms at 3 Munson Building. The Munson Building is located at 301-305 West Woodard Street. It is possible that Fred lodges at the YMCA Parlors (Gamelia [Gameliel] C. Freeman, secretary), which offers rooms for Christian young men on the second floor of 307-309 West Woodard Street. This is the last time a Denison City Directory mentions Fred Lebrecht. [Source: City Directory]

1896-1897                    Pollard, Hoerr & Co. is at 305 West Main Street. Principals are L. E. Pollard, Louis Hoerr, and Stephen T. Brown. The firm offers “wholesale and retail hardware, queensware, tinware, stoves, guns, cutlery, etc.” Also “shelf and heavy hardware.” [Source: City Directory]

1896-1897                    Brown & Hoerr operate the “Cabinet Saloon” at 224 West Main Street. Stephen T. Brown and Louis Hoerr are the owners. Stephen T. Brown resides at 409 West Gandy Street. [Source: City Directory]

1896-1897                    Louis Hoerr resides at 503 West Main Street. Also residing there is John L. Hoerr, bookkeeper at Pollard, Hoerr & Co. [Source: City Directory]

1896-1897                   Louis E. Pollard lives at 605 West Gandy Street. [Source: City Directory]

1896-1897                   Phillip D. Pollard is a tinner at Pollard, Hoerr & Co. His residence is at 729 West Gandy, where he lives with Louis and Carrie Lebrecht. [Source: City Directory]

1896-1897                   Phillip D. Pollard Jr. is a tinner at Pollard, Hoerr & Co. He resides on South Fannin Avenue beyond the city limits. This is probably the property referred to by the family as “the farm.” [Source: City Directory]

1896-1897                    August Knecht is president of the Denison Maenerchor, Sons of Hermann. [Source: City Directory]

1896-1897                    Willis Peel is clerk at G. W. McNeelan. He resides at 122 West Hull Street, where his wife, Alice A. Peel, also sells notions. It seems likely that they are the parents of Neva Peel (Mrs. Phillip) Lebrecht. [Source: City Directory]

1896-1897                    To judge from City Directory information, several “colored” barbers seem to have had close relationships with Levi B. Burton and Edward D. Burton. Living next door to Levi Burton at 615 North Mirick Avenue is Harry Platt, who works at 307 West Main Street. Peter Williams, who operates a barber shop at 106 North Rusk Avenue, lives at 522 North Houston Avenue. Sherley O. Platt works at Peter Williams’ barber shop and resides at 527 West Bond Street. [Source: City Directory]

1896-1897                    Other “colored” Burtons are David, cook at the McDougall Hotel, who lives at 608 West Walker Street; Owen, who works at the Columbia Restaurant and lives on North Burnett Avenue near West Walker Street; George, a laborer who lives at 829 West Walker; and Warren, a drayman who lives at 829 West Walker. [Source: City Directory]

1896-1897                    John W. Creager, a retired man, lives at 603 West Munson Street. [Source: City Directory]

1896-1897                    August Knecht Sr. is a barber and proprietor of the Columbia Restaurant, both at 409 West Main Street. He operates furnished rooms over 406 West Main Street. He resides at 428 West Sears Street. [Source: City Directory]

1896-1897                     August Knecht Jr. is a barber working for August Knecht Sr. and living at 428 West Sears Street. [Source: City Directory]

1896-1897                     Henry Knecht works for the Katy Railway and residing at 428 West Sears Street. [Source: City Directory]

1896-1897                     Ernest B. Kollert resides at 411 West Walker Street.  [Source: City Directory]

May 3, 1897                  Henry Edgar Lebrecht born at 729 West Gandy Street, Denison, Texas. He will die in Southern California on Labor Day, 1981, and be buried at Rose Hills Cemetery. [Source: Hank Lebrecht to Mavis Bryant, April 22, 2006]

1898                              Rabbi Moses Lebrecht (Maier), father of Louis Lebrecht, dies in Germany. [Source: Family tree supplied by Hank Lebrecht, April 22, 2006]

April 5, 1898                 Louis Lebrecht is elected to second term as mayor of Denison, defeating Dr. J. G. Ellis. As mayor, Lebrecht’s office is in City Hall, 320 West Chestnut Street, only steps away from the Verein Vorwaerts at 400 West Chestnut. [Sources: Sunday Gazetteer, April 10, 1898; City Directory; Hank Lebrecht, 1996]

December 27, 1898   Mrs. J. L. Drake files a legal instrument concerning Lot 3, Block 53, Original Town Plat [104 West Main Street], Denison. She says John Leuders and wife Odeal Leuders borrowed $1,800 from Coffin & Zintgraff on September 9, 1886, putting the property up as collateral. Later Coffin & Zintgraff assigned the note to J. L. Drake, deceased husband of Mrs. Drake. She is selling her interest in the property to the Southern Building and Loan Company of Knoxville, Tennessee. [Source: Grayson County Deed Records, Vol. 126, p. 153; see Vol. 136, pp. 144-45. An interesting note: In 1896-1897, Franz Kohfeldt (1865-1938), 122 West Main Street, was the Denison agent for Southern Building and Loan Association of Knoxville, Tennessee. Source: Denison City Directory]

1898-1899                    As Mayor of Denison, Louis Lebrecht serves ex oficio as president of the Board of Trustees of Denison’s public schools. [Source: City Directory]

1898-1899                    Louis Lebrecht, “Mayor of Denison,” sells wholesale cigars at 100 West Main Street. His residence is at 729 West Gandy Street. [Source: City Directory]

1898-1899                    Otto Uhlig is clerk at Louis Lebrecht. Otto lives at 600 West Sears Street, with August Uhlig, a shoemaker with a shop at 114 South Austin Avenue. [Source: City Directory]

1898-1899                    Levi Burton (colored) is porter at Louis Lebrecht. He and his wife Viola Burton (colored) live at 414 West Walker Street. [Source: City Directory]

1898-1899                    At 102 West Main Street is E. [Ernest] B. Kollert, selling cigars and newspapers. He and his wife Augusta H. Kollert reside at 411 West Walker Street, in a block occupied mostly by African Americans. [Source: City Directory]

1898-1899                    Also at 102 West Main Street is Edward Burton, a colored barber. He rooms at the same address. [Source: City Directory]

1898-1899                     At 104 West Main Street is the City Hotel and Restaurant. Proprietor is Orie W. Dyche, who resides on the premises. [Source: City Directory]

1898-1899                     Pollard, Hoerr & Co. is at 305 West Main Street. Nearby, at 309 West Main Street, is W. A. Hallenbeck, Confectioner and Bakery. [Source: City Directory]

1898-1899                     Several painters live together at 107 West Murray Street: Ernest E. Walton, Irvin S. Walton, and James S. Walton. Louis H. and Myrtle Walton Lebrecht later will live for many years at 107 West Murray Street. [Source: City Directory]

1898-1899                     Alfred P. Walton is barkeeper at Finn and McSweeney Saloon (also known as the Phenix or Phoenix Saloon), 103 West Main Street. He rooms at 314-1/2 West Main Street, above J. P. Marsh, shoes. Also occupying the upstairs are M. V. Wilkerson and W. Hughes. [Note: This is where, two years earlier, Edward D. Burton (colored) roomed and Dr. Albert E. Thompson (colored) had his office.] [Source: City Directory]

1898-1899                     August Knecht is proprietor of Columbia Restaurant and Barber Shop, 409 West Main Street. He lives at 428 West Sears Street. Also living there are August Knecht Jr., a barber; Miss Julia Knecht [Mrs. J. W. Williams, 409 West Gandy Street, in 1947?], cashier at the Columbia Restaurant; and Henry, a student. [Source: City Directory]

1898-1899                    The Brown & James Saloon is at 224 West Main Street. Owners are Stephen T. Brown and Edward James. [Source: City Directory]

1898-1899                    Thomas H. Creager is janitor at Lamar School and living at 518 West Munson Street. [Source: City Directory]

1898-1899                    Office of Dr. J. G. Ellis is at 400-1/2 West Main Street. Also there are Dr. J. S. Powers and Dr. O. Robertson. [Source: City Directory]

February 27, 1899      Louis Lebrecht and Carrie B. Lebrecht sell Lot 6, Block 9, Miller’s Second Addition [1116 West Elm Street], Denison, to George Hardison for $125 ($225 less than they paid for the lot in 1890). There is a one-year promissory note, and Hardison puts up his adjoining Lot 5 as collateral. Notary public is Harrison Tone Jr. The sale is finalized on August 1, 1902. [Sources: Grayson County Deed Records, Vol. 127, p. 21; and Vol. 146, p. 51]

March 17, 1899           Louis Lebrecht and Carrie B. Lebrecht file a statement declaring Lot 9, Block 9, Miller’s First Addition [729 West Gandy Street], Denison, to be their legal “residence homestead.” They further declare “my business homestead” to be Lot 1, Block 53, Original Town Plat [100 West Main Street], Denison. These properties are declared “free and acquit from all claims whatsoever.” Moreover, “we bind ourselves, our heirs, and legal representatives to occupy, use, and enjoy the above described premises as contemplated by law to constitute a homestead and relinquish hereby all Homestead claims that we may or might have, to any and all other lands owned by us jointly or severally, and especially relinquishing any and all Homestead claims to any such lands as are now, or may hereafter be, encumbered by a Deed of Trust or Deeds of Trust wherein Emmett Chambers of Dallas, Texas, or the National Loan and Investment Co. of Detroit, Mich., appears or is interested either as Trustee or beneficiary.” [Source: Grayson County Deed Records, Vol. 125, p. 596]

1899-1900                    In addition to serving as mayor, Louis Lebrecht is a school trustee for the Denison public schools. Other trustees are A. [Alexander] Frame, president; W. J. Scott, secretary; S. A. Gilbert; T. V. [Thomas Volney] Munson; and A. G. Moseley. [Source: City Directory]

1899-1900                    The Hon. Louis Lebrecht, Mayor of Denison, has moved his wholesale cigar business across the street to 113 West Main Street. He resides at 729 West Gandy Street. [Source: City Directory]

1899-1900                    Otto Uhlig is clerk at Louis Lebrecht. Otto resides at 600 West Sears Street. Augustus Uhlig, shoemaker, lives there, too. August was in Denison at the same address as early as 1876-77. [Source: City Directory]

1899-1900                    At 100 West Main Street is North Texas Produce Company, “fruits, produce, and cold storage; incorporated 1897.” Proprietors are Robert K. Fuller, a married man living at 730 West Crawford Street; and John T. Perkins, a married man living at 500 West Main Street. [Source: City Directory]

1899-1900                    At 102 West Main Street is John Douglass, cigar manufacturer. He is married and lives at 514 North Houston Avenue. William S. Douglass works at John Douglass and also lives at 102 West Main Street. [Source: City Directory]

1899-1900                    At 104 West Main Street is the Hotel Pickwick. Proprietor is Orie W. Dyche, married and living on the premises. [Source: City Directory]

1899-1900                   Herbert Smith works at Hotel Pickwick; he resides at the hotel.

1899-1900                    Edward D. Burton (colored) is a barber at 224 West Main Street. He is married and living at 805 West Sears Street. [Source: City Directory]

1899-1900                    Also at 224 West Main Street is James & Tully Saloon. Proprietors are Edward James, a married man living at 122 West Sears Street; and John W. Tully, residing at 213 West Crawford Street. [Note: Chief of Police is John A. James.] [Source: City Directory]

1899-1900                    Upstairs at 224-1/2 West Main Street are A. B. Person, attorney; Harry L. Person, stenographer and notary public; and Antonia Goike (married), barkeeper at the White House Saloon, 313 West Main Street. The White House Saloon is owned by Felix Tachini, a married man living at 322 West Woodard Street. [Source: City Directory]

1899-1900                    Louis E. Pollard is a metal worker at 120 North Burnett Avenue. He is married and residing at 605 West Gandy Street. Also living there is Phillip D. Pollard Sr, a tinner at L. E. Pollard. [Source: City Directory]

1899-1900                    Phillip D. Pollard Jr. is a tinner at L. E. Pollard. He lives at 1021 West Woodard Street. [Source: City Directory]

1899-1900                    James P. Pollard (colored) is a porter at Katy Railway. He is married and residing at 122 West Walker. [Source: City Directory]

1899-1900                    Ernest B. Kollert is secretary and treasurer of the ORC&M of FKP and secretary of the American Guild, 228 West Main Street. He is married and resides at 411 West Walker Street. [Source: City Directory]

1899-1900                    August Knecht is proprietor of Columbia Restaurant and barber shop, 409 West Main Street. He operates furnished rooms at 406-1/2 West Main Street. Married, he lives at 428 West Sears. Also living there are Henry Knecht, a waiter at the Columbia Restaurant; and Miss Julia Knecht, bookkeeper at Haven and Coleman, grocers, 403 West Main Street. [Source: City Directory]

1899-1900                    August Knecht Jr. is a barber at J. C. Woodring, 406 West Main Street. He rooms at 406-1/2 West Main Street. [Source: City Directory]

1899-1900                    Brown & Hoerr are proprietors of State National Exchange Saloon, 302 West Main Street. Stephen T. Brown is married and living at 509 West Gandy Street. Louis Hoerr rooms over 503 West Main. [Source: City Directory]

1899-1900                    Max Beck is proprietor of the Opera House Saloon, 100 West Woodard Street; and the Max Beck Saloon, 126 West Main Street. Max is married and lives at 408 North Houston Avenue. Employed as barkeeper at Max Beck Saloon is William Kohl, who rooms at 118-1/2 West Main Street. [Source: City Directory]

1899-1900                    Milton L. Eppstein is proprietor and manager of the Denison Opera House, 114-116 West Woodard Street. He lives at 331 West Gandy Street. [Source: City Directory]

1899-1900                    Dr. Joseph G. Ellis, MD, is a specialist in rectal diseases and diseases of women, with office at 307 West Main Street. Married, he lives at 905 West Morton Street. [Source: City Directory]

1899-1900                    Living at 107 West Murray are James S. Walton, a married painter; Ernest E. Walton and Irvin S. Walton, both employed by Katy Railway; and Miss Edith A. Walton. [Source: City Directory]

1899-1900                    J. W. Walton is train master for Katy Railway. He boards at 508 West Crawford Street (boarding house of Mrs. Emma Brown). [Source: City Directory]

1899-1900                    Alfred P. Walton is barkeeper at Finn and McSweeney Saloon. He is married and lives at 109 East Morton Street. Also living there is Charles Walton, barkeeper at Edward Ford Saloon, 1531 West Morton Street. [Source: City Directory]

1899-1900                    C. P. Walton works at Katy Shops and rooming at 512 West Morgan Street (home of E. L. Hardesty). [Source: City Directory]

April 4, 1900                In race for third term as mayor of Denison, Louis Lebrecht is defeated by John S. Knaur. The Sunday Gazetteer’s editor states that, prior to the election, Lebrecht’s “arrogance was disgusting.” [Sources: Sunday Gazetteer, April 8, 1900; Hank Lebrecht, 1996]

June 4, 1900                In 57th Judicial District Court, Bexar County, Texas, trustees for Southern Building and Loan Association of Knoxville, Tennessee, win lawsuit No. 11672 to foreclose on John Lueders and wife Odeal Lueders for multiple debts totaling $2,100, all secured by Lot 3, Block 53, Original Town Plat [104 West Main Street], Denison. [Source: Grayson County Deed Records, Vol. 136, pp. 144-45. Remember that, in 1896-1897, Franz Kohfeldt (1865-1938), 122 West Main Street, was the Denison agent for Southern Building and Loan Association of Knoxville, Tennessee. Source: Denison City Directory]

September 22, 1900   John Lueders and wife Odeal Lueders “of Clear Creek County, Colorado,” file in Kings County, New York, a legal document appointing Frantz [sic] Kohfeldt of Denison, Texas, as their legal agent as regards Lot 3, Block 53, Original Town Plat [104 West Main Street], Denison. [Source: Grayson County Deed Records, Vol. 134, pp. 192-94.  Remember that, in 1896-1897, Franz Kohfeldt (1865-1938), 122 West Main Street, was the Denison agent for Southern Building and Loan Association of Knoxville, Tennessee. Source: Denison City Directory]

December 18, 1900   Case No. 11672 in the 57th Judicial District Court, Bexar County, Texas, is settled. John Lueders and wife Odeal Lueders have paid $2,000 to the Southern Building and Loan Association of Knoxville, Tennessee, and receive clear title to Lot 3, Block 53, Original Town Plat [104 West Main Street], Denison. [Source: Grayson County Deed Records, Vol. 136, pp. 144-45.  Remember that, in 1896-1897, Franz Kohfeldt (1865-1938), 122 West Main Street, was the Denison agent for Southern Building and Loan Association of Knoxville, Tennessee. Source: Denison City Directory]

December 20, 1900    Franz Kohfeldt (1865-1938), as agent for John Lueders and Odeal Lueders, sells Lot 3, Block 53, Original Town Plat [104 West Main Street], Denison, to J. A. Barnett of McAlester, Indian Territory, for $4,500. Harrison Tone is notary public. [Source: Grayson County Deed Records, Vol. 135, p. 232] [WHAT BECOMES OF LOT 3, BLOCK 53, OTP AFTER THIS? NEED THAT ABSTRACT OF TITLE!]

January 12, 1901       Early Denison leader, Harrison Tone, dies. His Tone & Son Abstract Company had long been located at 122 West Main Street, a few doors west of the Lebrecht Building. [Source: B. C. Murray, “H. Tone Sr. Dead”]

January 21, 1901        District Court of Grayson County, Case No. 13250 (?), Mary Nelson et al. v. John Lueders. Clara M. Crawford, her husband O. W. Crawford, and Mary Nelson were suing Mr. Lueders with regard to Lot 3, Block 53, Original Town Plat [104 West Main Street]. Their case was found without merit and dismissed. [Source: Grayson County Deed Records, Vol. 134, p. 557; see also Civil Minutes, District Court of Grayson County, Book No. 2, p. 314]

1901-1902                    Louis and Carrie Lebrecht and family live at 729 West Gandy Street. [Source: City Directory]

1901-1902                    Louis Lebrecht is teacher of the “German-English school” at Verein Vorwaerts. [Source: City Directory]

1901-1902                    John Bengel is scribe, International Order of Odd Fellows, Denison Encampment No. 59. Probably John J. Bengel, bartender at George Braun Saloon, 113 East Main Street, in 1901-1902. Bengel’s residence is at 920 W. Woodard in 1901-1902. Also living in the house then is Charles Bengel, clerk at Thomas LeBrecht. [WHAT?]

1901-1902                    Rooming above 100 West Main Street is Joseph S. Simpson, brakeman, MKT Railway. [Source: City Directory]

1901-1902                    Rooming above 100 West Main Street is James H. Jones, butcher at Jerry T. Strait, meat market, live stock dealer, feeder and shipper; market and office at 125 West Main Street. Jones boards at the Pickwick Hotel, 104 West Main Street.

1901-1902                    At 102 West Main Street is John Douglass, cigar manufacturer; John lives at 1014 West Main Street. William S. Douglass works at John Douglass; he lives with John Douglass, too. [Source: City Directory]

1901-1902                    At 102-1/2 West Main Street is Zachariah R. Moseley (colored), a barber. He lives at 300 West Walker Street. [Source: City Directory]

1901-1902                    At 104 West Main Street is the office of J. Howard Cummins, hack owner and driver. His residence is at 709 West Owings Street. [Source: City Directory]

1901-1902                    At 104 West Main Street is the Hotel Pickwick. Mrs. Hannah B. (Mrs. Orie W.) Dyche is proprietor. Head cook at the Hotel Pickwick is C. Edward Allen. His wife Julia Allen is waitress at the hotel. Both reside on the premises. [Source: City Directory]

1901-1902                    Boarding at the Hotel Pickwick, 104 West Main Street, is  James H. Jones, butcher at Jerry T. Strait, meat market, live stock dealer, feeder and shipper; market and office at 125 West Main Street. Jones rooms over 100 West Main Street.

1901-1902                    Mrs. Hannah B. (Mrs. Orie W.) Dyche also runs the Pickwick Saloon next door at 106 West Main Street. “Dyche’s Menagerie: French Poodle Dogs for Sale, Monkeys, Wild Cats, etc. Also the best line of Liquors in Denison. The Pickwick.” [Sources: City Directory; Sunday Gazetteer (advertisement), August 3, 1902]

1901-1902                    Located at 106 West Main Street, too, is W. [Wesley] L. Lane (colored), barber. He resides at 127 East Johnson Street. [Source: City Directory]

1901-1902                    Edward D. Burton (colored) is proprietor of Globe Barber Shop, 224 West Main Street. He lives at 408 West Johnson Street. [Source: City Directory]

1902                              Walter P. Lebrecht begins work at MK&T Railway as a machinist apprentice. [Source: “Retiring from Tax Post”]

[DATE?] 1902              Carrie Belle Lebrecht born at 729 West Gandy Street, Denison. [Sources: Hank Lebrecht, 1996; Murray, 1902; Tombstone, Fairview Cemetery, Denison]

August 1, 1902            Louis Lebrecht and Carrie B. Lebrecht finalize sale of Lot 6, Block 9, Miller’s Second Addition [1116 West Elm Street], Denison, to George Hardison for $125 ($225 less than they paid for the lot in 1890). [Source: Grayson County Deed Records, Vol. 146, p. 51; see also Vol. 127, p. 21]

October 1902              Louis Lebrecht falls from upper floor of Lebrecht Building, 100 West Main Street. Rumor has it that the fall was not an accident. [Source: Hank Lebrecht, 1996]

December 1, 1902       Louis Lebrecht dies intestate (no will). Funeral takes place at Vorwaerts Hall, and burial is in the Pollard plot at Fairview Cemetery, Denison. The Twin City Band plays. August Knecht (1847-1914), Attorney E. J. Smith (1866-1925), and Isaac Yeidel deliver eulogies. Pallbearers are L. M. Fitzgerald, William Geiger, Alexander Margill, Bredette C. Murray, Charles Pascal, and Theodore Wahls. [Source: Murray, 1902; Hank Lebrecht, 1996; Tombstones, Fairview Cemetery, Denison]

December 12, 1902    On behalf of Carrie B. Lebrecht, Franz Kohfeldt (1865-1938) files an application for Letters of Administration on Louis Lebrecht’s estate. The application affirms that the estate of Louis Lebrecht “consists of an insurance policy of the probable value of $5,000, a stock of merchandise of the probable value of $600, and one store building of the probable value of $3,000 or $4,000.” Also “that the said deceased was indebted to various parties at the time of his death, and the proper winding up of his estate requires that it be administered upon.” The application asks that J. H. Gardener [the words “this applicant” (i.e., Franz Kohfeldt) are crossed out, and Gardener’s name is handwritten above it in ink; probably John H. Gardner] be appointed administrator of the estate. Moseley & Eppstein are the attorneys filing the application on behalf of the applicant. [Source: Grayson County Probate Records, File No. 2018]

1902                             Carrie B. Lebrecht and children move to 1007 West Woodard Street. [Source: City Directory]

June 1, 1903               Grayson County Court authorizes Letters of Administration on the Estate of Louis Lebrecht to be issued to J. H. Gardener upon his filing a $5,000 bond. In addition, the court appoints M. [Monie] Weixel, A. [Aaron B.?] Wolfson, and I. [Isaac] Yeidel “Appraisers to return an Inventory and Appraisement of the property belong to the Estate of said deceased.” But the Grayson County probate records contain no further information of any type concerning the estate of Louis Lebrecht. [Source: Grayson County Probate Minutes, Vol. 7, Page 165]

August 20, 1903         Walter P. Lebrecht’s maternal grandfather, Phillip Denver Pollard Sr., dies. Burial is in Pollard plot at Fairview Cemetery, Denison. [Sources: Tombstone; Hank Lebrecht, 1996; Hank Lebrecht to Mavis Bryant, April 22, 2006]

September 21, 1903   “Sunday, the last day of the [Denison] fair, was German Day. There was a large crowd. The grandstand was literally packed. In the morning the cowboy band received the German societies at the depot and marched to Vorwaerts Hall. German Day was a fitting closing day of the fair. Sunday night was ‘huskie’ night, and the Cowboy Band celebrated the event with constant playing.” [Source: Denison Daily News, September 21, 1903, quoted in Denison Press, September 21, 1956]

[DATE?] 1904              Carrie Belle Lebrecht, youngest of the seven children of Louis Lebrecht and Carrie Pollard Lebrecht, dies. Burial is at Fairview Cemetery, Denison. [Sources: Tombstone; Hank Lebrecht, 1996]

 

***END OF AN ERA***

 

February 9, 1904        Carrie B. Lebrecht attests that she has sold to Miss Mayme Garbutt two liens on Lot 9, Block 9, Miller’s First Addition [729 West Gandy Street], Denison, one for $784 and the other for $482, a total of $1,266. Apparently, Carrie has decided to dispose of the Gandy Street house and buy property on the edge of town from her brother, P. D. Pollard Jr. In a deposition taken on March 29, 1904, and recorded on April 16, 1904, Carrie states that two “Vendors Lien notes” from 1890, one for $450 and one for $750, existed on the Gandy Street homestead at the time of Louis Lebrecht’s death in December 1902. In January 1903, Carrie purchased these liens “with funds received from the Equitable Life Assurance Society of New York on a policy written for said Louis Lebrecht and payable to her, the said Carrie B. Lebrecht. Said funds being her own separate funds, and deponent further swears that she has never come into possession of any community funds since the death of her said husband, with which she could pay off and satisfy said indebtedness.” Early in 1904, Carrie herself sells these liens to Miss Mayme Garbutt (via her trustee, S. P. Ancker, head of Denison Bank and Trust Company). Then, in April 1904, when Carrie sells the Gandy Street property to C. A. and Rosie Hoffman, they assume responsibility for paying off these Garbutt liens. Presumably, these maneuvers allow Carrie to recapture her insurance money, plus $500 cash paid by the Hoffmans. [Source: Grayson County Deed Records, Vol. 89, p. 521; Vol. 125, p. 596; Vol. 156, pp. 387-89 and 397-401; and Vol. 182, p. 402]

March 4, 1904             Carrie B. Lebrecht purchases from P. D. Pollard Jr. Blocks 1 through 12 in Pollard’s Addition, Denison (also described as two tracts on Iron Ore Creek: one of 28 acres out of the William Oldham Survey, and another of one acre out of the I. G. Belcher Survey), for $1,500, payable in one year. This note was informally transferred from Pollard to Miss Mayme Garbutt in the interim. The note was paid off, and a release (signed by both Pollard and Garbutt) was recorded on October 10, 1905, finalizing the sale to Carrie Lebrecht. Incidentally, this property was the same land Louis Lebrecht and Carrie Lebrecht sold to Phillip D. Pollard for $300 on May 8, 1889. Family members always referred to it as “the farm.” [Sources: Grayson County Deed Records, Vol. 156, pp. 84-85; and Vol. 170, p. 24; see also Vol. 81, pp. 27 and 87; and Vol. 65, p. 622]

April 16, 1904              Carrie B. Lebrecht completes sale of her homestead (that is, Lot 9, Block 9, Miller’s First Addition; 729 West Gandy Street), Denison to C. [Charles] A. Hoffman and Rosie Hoffman for $1,400. Carrie receives $500 cash, while $900 is applied to retire two outstanding liens owned by Miss Mayme Garbutt. This the Hoffmans accomplish, as shown by a formal release recorded August 28, 1908. [Source: Grayson County Deed Records, Vol. 156, pp. 387-89 and 397-401; see also Vol. 89, p. 521; Vol. 125, p. 596; and Vol. 182, p. 402]

January 12, 1905        Ernest A. Walton, relative of Bertha Walton Lebrecht and Myrtle Walton Lebrecht, dies. He was born August 30, 1878. Buried in Walton plot at Fairview Cemetery, Denison. [Source: Tombstone]

1907                              City Hall is at 320 West Chestnut Street. [Source: City Directory]

1907                              Three-member commission form of city government adopted in Denison. Dr. Alex W. Acheson is elected mayor. The two other commissioners are John T. Suggs, attorney; and Patrick H. Tobin, owner of a local ice plant. Tobin was the engineer on the first Katy train into Denison and subsequently became a successful businessman. [Sources: Denison Herald, June 25, 1972; December 11, 1956]

March 31, 1907           Walter P. Lebrecht and Bertha Beatrice Walton are married by John L. LaGrone, “minister of Gospel” and pastor of Grace Methodist Episcopal Church. The ceremony takes place on Easter Sunday at the home of the parents of the bride, Mr. and Mrs. James S. Walton, 107 West Murray Street, the same house where Bertha was born. The ceremony is attended by “immediate relatives of the bride and groom.” The bride is described by the Sunday Gazetteer as “one of the most lovely girls that has ever lived in Denison. . . . not only very pretty in person, but is a highly cultured young woman.” Bertha was a saleslady at the R. D. Bierne Store, one of Denison’s business landmarks, when she and Walter married. The Daily Herald notes: “The groom is a son of ex-Mayor Louis Lebrecht, deceased, and is in charge of the Oriental Hotel on Main Street, where the newly wedded couple will reside.” [Sources: Marriage certificate, Grayson County Courthouse; “Lebrecht-Walton,” Denison Daily Herald, April 2, 1907; “Lebrechts to Observe Golden Anniversary”]

Ca. 1907                       Bertha Lebrecht performs in an operetta, “The Merry Milkmaids,” an “evening of mirth and song” staged by the Choral Society and Dittler’s Orchestra “under the auspices of the MK&T Dispatchers.” [Source: Operetta program, document in collection of Denison Heritage Inc.]

1907-1908                    Carrie B. Lebrecht and children live at 2700 South Fannin Avenue. Perhaps this is “the farm,” where Phillip D. Pollard Jr. lived in 1896-97. [Source: City Directory]

1907-1908                     Walter P. Lebrecht is proprietor of the Oriental Hotel, 100 West Main Street. Louis H. Lebrecht is a clerk at the hotel. Louis H., Walter P., and Walter’s wife Bertha B. Lebrecht live on the premises. [Source: City Directory]

1907-1908                    At 102 West Main Street is William S. Douglass, cigar manufacturer. He boards at 112 West Woodard Street. Charity K. Douglass (widow of John) lives at 912 West Woodard Street. [Source: City Directory]

1907-1908                    Boarding upstairs at 102 West Main Street is Arthur N. White, clerk at Jack M. Jemison, located just across Houston Avenue at 100-102 East Main Street. Offering “wholesale and retail groceries and meats,” Jemison advertises cigars and tobacco at wholesale and retail, as well as the “Only U. S. Government Inspected Meats Sold in Denison. Hotels, Restaurants and Boarding Houses Given Special Prices.” “Reduce Your Expenses by Buying Direct from J. M. Jemison. The Only Wholesale and Retail Grocery and Market in Denison. Wholesale Prices to Large Consumers.” Jack and wife Fontie Jemison live on the premises of their store. [Source: City Directory]

1907-1908                    At 104 West Main Street is the Hiawatha Hotel. William Oklauey is proprietor. He and his wife Frances E. Oklauey live on the premises. [Source: City Directory]

1908                              A publication promoting Denison describes the Brucker Brothers Restaurant thus: “Among restaurants of the city, that of Brucker Bros. has become recognized among the leaders, receiving a liberal share of patronage from our businessmen and the general traveling public. Everything served is strictly first-class, and the price for regular meals is only 25 cents. Short orders are given special attention and are served at all hours. Open day and night. Skilled cooks are employed, also polite, accommodating waiters. The bill of fare includes everything in season. The proprietors know the business thoroughly and are popular citizens. They also have a number of nicely furnished rooms in connection.” [Source: “Denison, the Texas Gateway: A Busy, Progressive City with Golden Opportunities”]

1909                              Photographs of Lebrecht Building, 100-104 West Main Street; and Verein Vorwaerts, southwest corner of West Chestnut Street and South Burnett Avenue, are published in Robinson, Industrial Denison, pages 53 and 60.

1909                              Neva Peel [later Mrs. Phillip Lebrecht] graduates from Denison High School. Maude Peel (later Maude Kretsinger) is in the same class. [Source: Biennial Report of the Public Schools of Denison, 1913-1914]

1913                              Carrie B. Lebrecht and three sons (Louis, Henry, and Julius) live at 202 West Bond Street. [Source: City Directory]

1913                              Walter P. Lebrecht is a machinist, employed by MK&T Railway. He lives at 515 North Austin Avenue. [Source: City Directory]

1913                              Louis H. Lebrecht lives at 515 North Austin Avenue. [Source: City Directory]

1913                              Julius Steiner Lebrecht, son of Louis Lebrecht and Carrie B. Pollard Lebrecht, graduates from Denison High School. [Source: Biennial Report of the Public Schools of Denison, 1913-1914; “Pioneer Students of the First Public Free School in Texas: Denison High School, Denison, Texas”]

1913 (or 1916?)           Carrie B. Lebrecht and four youngest sons move to Los Angeles, California. [Sources:  “Mrs. L. Lebrecht, Widow”; Hank Lebrecht, 1996 and April 22, 2006] [NEED MORE INFO]

1913                              At 100-102-104 West Main Street is Brucker’s Hotel, Cafe, and Barber Shop. “Rooms 50 cents, 75 cents, and $1.00. Meals 25 cents. Short orders a specialty. Open all night.” Proprietor is Emil [M.] Brucker. Herman Brucker and Otto Brucker are clerks at the hotel and cafe. All live at 318 East Chestnut Street, along with Ida Brucker and Elizabeth Brucker (widow of Julius). Albert Brucker (1878-1960), another clerk at the hotel and cafe, boards at 223 West Bond Street, home of Mrs. Mary Webster. Also living there is Marie E. Webster (widow of John G. Webster). [Source: City Directory]

1913                              At 102 West Main Street is A. [Alfred] L. Jacobs, jeweler. Alfred and his wife Annie R. Jacobs live at 510 West Woodard Street. [Source: City Directory]

1913                              Samuel [E.] Burton (colored) is porter at 102 West Main Street. He boards at 908 West Washington Street. Note: 908 West Washington is not listed in the street listing in the City Directory. [Source: City Directory]

1913                              At 102 West Main Street is Joseph Presley, barber. He and his wife Myrtle Presley live in the Cotton Mill Addition. Living with them is William B. Presley, machine operator at the Denison Cotton Mill Co. [Source: City Directory]

1913                                        No Oklauey is listed in the City Directory.

July 9, 1913                 James S. Walton, father of Bertha Lebrecht and Myrtle Lebrecht, dies. He was a paint and paper contractor. Buried at Fairview Cemetery, Denison. [Source: Tombstone; “Lebrechts to Observe Golden Anniversary,” Denison Herald, March 28, 1957]

May 1913                      Levi [B.] Burton [Sr.] (colored) dies in Sedalia [Missouri?] on May 3. Body brought to Denison for burial in Magnolia Cemetery on May 4. [Source: City of Denison death records, Vol. 2, p. 14]

October 26, 1913          Julius Brucker dies at age 73. Possibly the father of Emil Brucker, he was born in 1840 and was married to Elizabeth F. Meister Brucker. He is buried at Fairview Cemetery. [Sources: City of Denison death records, Bk. 2, pg. 62; Tombstone]

1914-1918                     World War I.

1915                              Lebrecht Brothers (Walter P. and Louis H.) are contractors, 515 North Austin Avenue. [Source: City Directory]

1915                              Louis H. Lebrecht lives at 515 North Austin Avenue. [Source: City Directory]

1915                              Walter P. and Bertha B. Lebrecht live at 519 North Austin Avenue. [Source: City Directory]

1915                              Walter P. Lebrecht begins four-year stint in tax office of the City of Denison, working under A. H. Coffin; he serves also as city fire marshal. [Source: “Retiring from Tax Post”; “Lebrechts to Observe Golden Anniversary”]

1915                              At 100-102-104 West Main Street is Brucker’s Hotel and Cafe. Proprietor is Emil Brucker. Herman, Alfred, and Otto Brucker are clerks at the hotel and cafe. All live at 318 East Chestnut Street, along with Ida Brucker and Elizabeth Brucker (widow of Julius). [Source: City Directory]

1915                              Green Butler (colored) is a cook at 100 West Main Street [Brucker’s Hotel and Cafe]. He and wife Hettie live at 209 East Nelson Street, with  Louis Butler (colored), porter, and wife Willie Butler. [Source: City Directory]

1915                              Sheet Jones is a cook at 100 West Main Street [Brucker’s Hotel and Cafe] and resides on the premises. [Source: City Directory]

1915                              William Mott (colored) is helper at Brucker’s Hotel and Cafe. He boards at 321 East Texas Street with Phoebe Mott (colored; widow of Columbus Mott). [Source: City Directory]

1915                              Henry Davis, brakeman, boards at Brucker’s Hotel and Cafe. [Source: City Directory]

1915                              Howard E. Jones boards at 100 West Main Street [Brucker’s Hotel and Cafe]. [Source: City Directory]

1915                              Albert G. Waterhouse, engineer, Missouri, Oklahoma & Gulf Railway Co. of Texas, rooms at 100 West Main Street [Brucker’s Hotel and Cafe]. [Source: City Directory]

1915                              At 102 West Main Street is A. [Alfred] L. Jacobs, jeweler. Alfred and his wife Annie R. Jacobs live at 510 West Woodard Street. [Source: City Directory]

1915                              Upstairs at 102-1/2 West Main Street is A. [Arthur] C. Loveday, barber. Arthur and his wife, Jeanne I. Loveday, board at 308 East Chestnut Street. Associated with A. C. Loveday are other barbers: (1) Joseph T. Pressley [elsewhere Presley] lives with his wife Myrtle Pressley at 316 East Chestnut Street. (2) John W. Howell and his wife Maggie Howell reside at 500 East Sears Street. [Source: City Directory]

1915                              Robert G. Walton is a photographer, with a studio at 216 West Main Street. He and his wife Myrtle Walton live at 311 South Fannin Avenue. Another listing has Myrtle Walton [same one or a different person?] boarding at 107 West Murray Street, along with Edith Walton, Irvin S. Walton (conductor, MK&T Railway), Lola A. [Lola Ann Green] Walton (widow of James S. Walton), and Louis Walton. [Source: City Directory]

June 1, 1916                Walter P. Lebrecht, “concrete contractor,” is a founding member of Denison Rotary Club. [Denison Rotary Club web site]

December 5, 1916      Louis H. Lebrecht and Myrtle Azola Walton are married by D. K. Porter, “Presiding Elder, Sherman District.” Prior to this, she was a stenographer who served as office secretary to Dr. Alex Acheson and worked at W. A. Peck Jewelry Store. [Sources: Marriage certificate, Grayson County Courthouse; Obituary, Denison Herald, April 22, 1966] CHECK NEWSPAPER FOR MARRIAGE ACCOUNT.

1917                              Walter P. Lebrecht is City Fire Marshall. City Hall is at 202 West Main Street. [Source: City Directory]

1917                              Lebrecht Brothers (Walter P. and Louis H.) are contractors, 120 West Murray Street. [Source: City Directory]

1917                              Walter P. and Bertha B. Walton Lebrecht live at 120 West Murray. [Source: City Directory]

1917                              Louis H. and Myrtle A. Walton Lebrecht live at 1419 South Fannin Avenue, corner of West Murray Street. [Source: City Directory]

1917                              At 100 West Main Street is Brucker’s Hotel, Emil [M.] Brucker proprietor. Clerks there are Albert, Edward, and Herman Brucker. Living together at 318 West Chestnut are numerous Bruckers: Emil, his wife Lizzie, Elizabeth (widow of Julius), Albert  (1878-1960), Edward, and Herman. [Source: City Directory]

1917                              Green Butler (colored) is cook at 100 West Main Street [Brucker’s Hotel and Cafe]. He and wife Hattie [sic] Butler live at 615 North Rusk Avenue. [Source: City Directory]

1917                              At 102 West Main Street is Arthur C. Loveday, barber. Married to Jeanne I. Loveday, he boards at 308 East Chestnut Street. [Source: City Directory]

1917                              At 104 West Main Street is Alfred L. Jacobs, Jewelry. With wife Anna [Annie R.] Jacobs, he lives at 510 East Woodard Street. [Source: City Directory]

1917                              Phillip D. Pollard [Jr.] operates a confectionery at 427 West Main Street. He and wife Verna live on the premises. [Source: City Directory]

1918                              Devastating influenza epidemic.

1919                              Walter P. Lebrecht ceases working at the tax office, City of Denison. [Source: “Lebrechts to Observe Golden Anniversary at Sunday Event,” Denison Herald, March 28, 1957]

April 21, 1919              Royden Louis Lebrecht born in Denison, Texas. He is son of Louis H. and Myrtle Azola Walton Lebrecht. [Source: City of Denison birth records]

1921                              Walter P. Lebrecht is a machinist. Walter P. and Bertha B. Lebrecht live at 122 West Murray Street. [Source: City Directory]

1921                              Louis H. and Myrtle Lebrecht live at 110 West Murray Street. [Source: City Directory]

1921                              At 100 West Main Street is Brucker’s Hotel. Emil Brucker is proprietor. Otto Brucker is waiter. Charles Brucker, a helper on the MKT Railway, lives with his wife Eva on the premises at 100 West Main Street. In addition to owning the hotel, Emil Brucker is also manager of Southern Fuel and Feed Company, 100 West Chestnut Street. He and wife Lizzie live at 318 West Chestnut Street, along with several other Bruckers: Elizabeth (widow of Julius); Otto; Albert D. (1878-1960), a helper on the MKT Railway; Edward E., meat cutter at Lochiel Glidden Meats, 111 North Burnett Avenue (Glidden’s wife is Kate F. Glidden, and they live in Dallas); and Herman E., driver for Swift & Company Wholesale Meats, 210 North Houston Avenue  (manager is Maurice F. Rees, who lives with wife Olive B. Rees at 311 West Gandy Street). [Source: City Directory]

1921                              At 102 West Main Street is G. T. James Meats, a retail meat market owned by Gideon T. James. With his wife Ruth James, he lives at 321 [perhaps an error; 312 is listed elsewhere] West Crawford Street. Also living there is Thelma James, student. [Source: City Directory]

1921                              At 104 West Main Street is The Electric Shop, “Always Right All-Ways. Electric Wiring, Electric Supplies, Mazda Lamps, Electric Repairs,” Electro-plating, Electrical Appliances, Motors, Fans. Chester A. Cooper is proprietor. With wife Bessie, he lives at 1319 West Gandy Street. [Source: City Directory]

1921                              At 104 West Main Street is W. F. Weaver Plumbing Company, offering “Plumbing, Steam and Gas Fittings.” W. F. and his wife Fannie Weaver live at 220 East Morgan Street. [Source: City Directory]

1921                              At 104-1/2 West Main Street are the Tulsa Rooms. “Furnished rooms” are offered. Proprietor is Miss Edith O’Neil, who lives on the premises. [Source: City Directory]

1922                              Major railroad strike in Denison. In wake of the strike, Katy Railway shops move to Waco, and economic crisis ensues. Denison population falls from 17,065 in 1920 to 13,850 in 1930. [Source: “Census Figures Chart”]

1922                              Walter P. Lebrecht leaves the MK&T Railway to pursue a career in photography. He will work out of the photography studios of George W. Moore, James K. Jenkins, and Thomas E. Mitchell before opening his own commerical photography business by 1929. [Source: “Retiring from Tax Office”; “Lebrechts to Observe Golden Anniversary”; Denison City Directory, 1929]

Ca. 1924                       June Alene Lebrecht, adopted daughter of Walter P. and Bertha B. Lebrecht, is born. [NEED INFO]

1925                              At 100 West Main Street is Brucker’s Hotel. Emil Brucker is proprietor. [Source: City Directory]

1925                              Downstairs at 104 West Main Street is R. L. Reece Furniture. Robert Lee Reece is proprietor. Upstairs, 104-1/2 West Main Street, is occupied by Mrs. Margaret Blankenship. [Source: City Directory]

1927-1934                    Walter P. Lebrecht is a commercial photographer, 102 West Main Street. [Source: City Directory]

1927-1928                    Walter P. and Bertha B. Lebrecht live at 1311 South Mirick Avenue. [Source: City Directory]

1927-1928                    Louis H. Lebrecht is a cement finisher. He and Myrtle Lebrecht live at 923 West Bond Street. [Source: City Directory]

1927-1928                    At 100 West Main Street is Brucker’s Hotel. Emil [M.] Brucker is proprietor. He and wife Lizzie live at 318 East Chestnut, along with Elizabeth (widow of Julius). Otto Brucker, waiter at the Brucker Hotel, lives with wife Irene at 314 East Chestnut. Edward Brucker Meats is located at 111 North Burnett Avenue. Albert Brucker (1878-1960) works as a meat cutter at Edward Brucker Meats. Both Edward and Albert live at 318 East Chestnut. [Source: City Directory]

1927-1928                    At 102-104 West Main Street is R. [Robert] L. Reece Furniture. Robert L. Reece and wife Lillie Reece live at 525 West Sears Street. Working at Reece Furniture is Jesse A. Reece. He and wife Samantha Reece reside at 1106 West Woodard Street. [Source: City Directory]

1927-1928                    At 104-1/2 West Main Street are the Plaza Rooms. Mrs. Lucile Layne is proprietor. She lives on the premises. [Source: City Directory]

1927-1928                              Located at 108 West Main Street is Bruno Brothers Confectioner. [Source: City Directory]

December 23, 1928    Lola Ann Green Walton, mother of Bertha B. Walton Lebrecht and Myrtle Azola Walton Lebrecht, dies. Buried at Fairview Cemetery, Denison. [Sources: Tombstone; City of Denison death records, Vol. 4, p. 145]

1929                              Stock market crash.

1929                              Walter P. and Bertha B. Lebrecht live at 109 North Scullin Avenue. [Source: City Directory]

1929                              Louis H. Lebrecht is a cement worker. He and wife Myrtle Lebrecht live at 527 West Owing Street. [Source: City Directory]

1929                              At 100 West Main Street is Brucker’s Hotel. Emil [M.] Brucker is proprietor. He lives on the premises. Otto Brucker, assistant manager at the Brucker Hotel, lives with wife Irene at 314 East Chestnut. Edward Brucker Meats is located at 111 North Burnett Avenue. Edward lives at 314 West Main Street. Albert Brucker (1878-1960) works as a meat cutter at Edward Brucker Meats. Edward lives at 318 East Chestnut. [Source: City Directory]

1929                              At 100 West Main Street is Red Ball Taxi. J. S. Lankford is proprietor. “Price 25 cents, Day & Night Service.” Lankford and wife May live at RFD 4. [Source: City Directory]

1929                              At 102-104-106 West Main Street is Reece Brothers Furniture, owned by Jesse A. Reece and R. Lee Reece. Jesse A. and wife Samantha Reece live at 1106 West Woodard Street. Robert Lee and wife Lillie Reece reside at 621 West Gandy Street, along with Nellie C. Reece. The Reece Apartments are located at 701 West Gandy Street at the corner of North Barrett Avenue. [Source: City Directory]

1929                              At 104-1/2 West Main Street are the Plaza Rooms. Mrs. Effie L. Ballew is proprietor. She also manages the Rialto Rooms, 113-1/2 West Main Street, and lives at that address. [Source: City Directory]

1929                              Arthur H. Coffin nears end of his service at Tax Assessor and Collector, City of Denison. His office is in City Hall at 322 West Chestnut Street. He lives with wife Nannie G. Coffin at 610 West Gandy Street. [Source: City Directory]

1929                                        Edith Walton dies. Born 1873. She is a relative of Bertha Walton Lebrecht and Myrtle Walton Lebrecht. Buried in Fairview Cemetery. [Source: Tombstone]

July 1932                     “Lebrecht’s Cafe” is located at 100 West Main Street. Its telephone number is 424. There is no other Lebrecht listing in the Bell Telephone directory. [Source: Southwestern Bell Telephone Co., Telephone Directory, Denison, Texas, July 1932]

May 1933                     “Lebrecht’s Cafe” is located at 100 West Main Street. Its telephone number is 424. No other Lebrecht is listed in the Bell Telephone directory. [Source: Southwestern Bell Telephone Co., Telephone Directory, Denison, Texas, May 1933]

1934                              Walter P. Lebrecht is listed in the City Directory as a commercial photographer, with office at 102 West Main Street. Last City Directory listing as photographer. [Source: City Directory]

1934                              Walter P. and Bertha B. Lebrecht live at 1009 South Armstrong Avenue. [Source: City Directory]

1934                              Louis H. and Myrtle Walton Lebrecht live at 107 West Murray Street. Will live here for the rest of their lives. [Source: City Directory]

1934                              At 100 West Main Street is the Da-Nite Cafe. Louis H. Lebrecht is proprietor. Phillip B. [sic] Pollard is cashier. He and wife Vena Smith Lebrecht live above the cafe at 100-1/2 West Main Street. [Source: City Directory]

1934                              At 104 West Main Street is Acme Auto Wreckers. Thomas Jones is proprietor. He and wife Loverna reside on the premises. The same City Directory lists Jones Brothers Confectionery, owned by Thomas M. Jones and Floyd G. Jones, at 430 West Main Street. Thomas Jones is said to reside at the Simpson Hotel. Floyd G. Jones lives at 523-1/2 West Gandy Street. [Source: City Directory]

1934                              At 104-1/2 West Main are the Elite Rooms, managed by Iva L. Mize. Christopher B. Mize and wife Iva L. Mize reside on the premises. Note: White Swan Rooms, 109-1/2 West Main, are managed by Billene Mize. Christopher B. Mize and his wife Billene reside on the premises. [Source: City Directory]

1934                                        No Red Ball Taxi or J. S. Lankford is listed in the City Directory.

1934                                        Residing at 318 East Chestnut are Emil Brucker, farmer; Edward Brucker, whose meat business is still at 111 North Burnett Avenue; and Albert D. Brucker, meat cutter at Edward Brucker. Living at 308 West Bond Street are Otto F. Brucker and his wife Irene, who operate a grocery store on the premises. Living with Otto and Irene are Otto F. Brucker Jr., Cristina Brucker, and Elfie Brucker (widow of Henry C. Brucker), clerk at Golden Eagle. [Source: City Directory]

1934                              Arthur H. Coffin has real estate office at 113 North Rusk Avenue. His home is at 523 West Woodard Street. [Source: City Directory]

January 1, 1934         Walter P. Lebrecht succeeds Jesse Whitehurst as Tax Assessor and Collector, City of Denison. He will be in charge of the department until his retirement in June 1954. His office is in the Municipal Building at 322 West Chestnut. [Sources: City Directory;  “Retiring from Tax Post”; “Lebrechts to Observe Golden Anniversary”

September 7, 1934     Dr. Alex W. Acheson dies. His wife, Sarah (Sadie) C. Acheson, had died in January 1899, leaving no will. The building at 225 West Main Street had been her separate property. Dr. Acheson’s final will was made on March 3, 1930, in the presence of A. P. Wood and A. V. Rutledge. Executors were Franz Kohfeldt and F. H. Kohfeldt. In the will Dr. Acheson stated, “I am uttlerly opposed to extravagant and expensive funerals, which are more for show than anything else, and it is my desire that . . . my funeral be simple and inexpensive, without flowers.” Alex and Sarah Acheson had four children: (1 and 2) A boy and a girl who died in infancy. (3) Jean Acheson, who never married, left no children, and died at age 54, following the death of her mother. (4) A surviving daughter, Alice Acheson Sproule, who married and subsequently was divorced from Ira F. Sproule. They had three children: Jean Sproule, Alex Sproule, and Alice (Billie) Sproule. Later Alice Acheson Sproule was remarried, to Frank Foster. In probate in October 1934, Dr. Acheson’s assets were ordered divided into four parts and given to: Alice Acheson Sproule and Jean Sproule, single women of New York City; Alice Sproule (Mrs. Frank) Foster of Wolleston, Massachusetts; and Alex Sproule of San Diego, California. On November 8, 1935, the estate sold Lots 4–7 and 9–14, Block 56, Miller’s Second Addition, to H. B. Perryman and C. W. Pierpont. [Sources: Maguire, Katy’s Baby; Abstract of Title, Lot 9, Block 56, Miller’s Second Addition, Denison]

 

***END OF AN ERA***

 

1936-1960                    The Municipal Building moves from 322 West Chestnut Street to 108-116 West Main Street. As Tax Assessor and Collector, Walter P. Lebrecht has his office here, only steps west of the Lebrecht Building. [Source: City Directory]

June 13, 1936             William H. Pollard at age 41 years, 11 months, and 14 days. [Source: City of Denison death records, Book 6, Page 175]

1936                              Lebrecht Building, 100-104 West Main Street, survives City of Denison’s demolition of 108-116 West Main Street for new City Hall. [Source: Billy Holcomb] NEED RESEARCH

1937                              Royden Louis Lebrecht graduates from Denison High School. [Sources: 1936 and 1937 Yellow Jacket (DHS yearbook); “Pioneer Students of the First Public Free School in Texas”; “Denison High School Reunions Listing, Classes of 1939–1950”]

1938                              Walter P. and Bertha B. Walton Lebrecht live at 117 West Murray Street. Will live here for the rest of their lives. [Source: City Directory]

1938                              Louis H. Lebrecht is a cement contractor. Will pursue this occupation until retirement around 1963. Sidewalks in downtown Denison bear his name (see photo, “LEBRECHT 37”). [Source: City Directory]

1938                              Downstairs, 100 West Main Street is vacant. Upstairs, at 100-1/2 West Main Street, lives Charles E. Kinder, master of finance, Knights of Pythias, Denison Lodge No. 3. It seems likely that he had substantial duties with this position, and that he fulfilled these out of his home. [Source: City Directory]

1938                             102 West Main Street is vacant. [Source: City Directory]

1938                              At 104 West Main Street is Hiatt Seed House, a retail seed store. Lyle A. Hiatt is proprietor. He lives on the premises. [Source: City Directory]

1938                              At 104-1/2 West Main Street are the Elite Rooms. Proprietor is Mrs. Mabel Davis. She and her husband George Davis, a farmer, live on the premises. [Source: City Directory]

March 2, 1938             Franz H. Kohfeldt dies in Denison, Texas. He was “born of German immigrant parents in 1865 and orphaned soon after. He was reared by old friends of his family, the George Brauns. They came to Denison in 1879 to establish the town’s first ice plant, predecessor of the Arctic Ice Company that one day would ship beef in refrigerator cars. Kohfeldt managed the ice and wholesale food business which Braun founded, began an apprenticeship in [Harrison] Tone’s abstract office, and later opened his own real estate business.” For decades, his Kohfeldt & Son Real Estate was located at 122 West Main Street, a few doors west of the Lebrecht Building. Franz early saw the development potential of Texas City, on the Texas Gulf coast. He made a fortune from his investments in land there. Franz and his wife Josie Kohfeldt had two sons, Franz H. (his partner in the real estate business) and George. Franz H. Kohfeldt was married to Irma Kohfeldt. [Sources: Maguire, p. 43; Abstract of Title, Lots 10 and 11, Block 70, Miller’s Second Addition to Denison]

1940                              June A. Lebrecht, student, lives with Walter P. and Bertha B. Lebrecht at 117 West Murray Street. [Source: City Directory]

1940                              Royden Louis Lebrecht, student, lives with Louis H. and Myrtle Lebrecht at 107 West Murray Street. [Source: City Directory]

1940                              At 104-1/2 West Main Street are the Elite Rooms. Manager is Roy B. Hamilton. He and wife Flora live on the premises. [Source: City Directory]

1940                              Emil M., Edward, and Albert D. Brucker live at 318 East Chestnut. Emil is a farmer; Edward has his meat business at 111 North Burnett Avenue; and Albert is meat cutter at Edward Brucker Meats. Otto F. and Irene M. Brucker live at 308 West Bond Street. [Source: City Directory]

1941-1945                    World War II. Royden Lebrecht serves as an Air Corps pilot, flying some of the most dangerous missions in the war. He is hailed as a war hero. [Sources: Hank Lebrecht, 2005; Donna Hunt, “Chance Meetings Form Meaningful Bonds”]

May 3, 1942                 June Alene Lebrecht and Glen Bruce Neal are married in Denison, Texas. The ceremony takes place at 2 p.m. at the home of the officiating minister, Rev. Hugh S. Porter, pastor of Trinity Methodist Church, with only relatives and close friends present. The bride “attended Denison High School and has been active in the Denison Rainbow Assembly.” Mr. Neal was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Neal of Indianapolis, Indiana. A graduate of Technical High School, Indianapolis, he was stationed at Perrin Air Force Base. The couple planned to live in Sherman after their wedding. [Sources: Marriage certificate, Grayson County Courthouse; “June Lebrecht To Be Bride of Alvin [sic; error] Neal,” Denison Herald, May 3, 1942]

1943                              Neva Peel (Mrs. Phillip) Lebrecht dies in Yarba Linda, California. She had graduated from Denison High School in 1909. She was a Quaker. Her sister was Maude Peel Kretsinger, a well-known Denison radio personality and author. [Sources: Obituary, Sherman Democrat, February 1, 1943; Biennial Report of the Public Schools of Denison, 1913-1914; Hank Lebrecht, 2005]

1946                              June Alene Lebrecht Neal not listed in Denison City Directory.

1946                              Royden Lebrecht not listed in Denison City Directory.

1946                              At 100-102 West Main Street is Treece Motor Company. Proprietor is Joseph P. Treece. He and wife O’Tera V. Treece live at 1014 West Gandy Street. [Source: City Directory]

1946                              Upstairs at 100-1/2 West Main Street is vacant. [Source: City Directory]

1946                              At 104 West Main Street is Waters Furniture, a retail store. Owner is Earl L. Waters, who live with wife Ismay M. Waters at 904 West Sears Street. [Source: City Directory]

1946                              Upstairs at 104-1/2 West Main Street is the Elite Rooms, managed by Benjamin F. McCrary, a brakeman on the MKT Railway and his wife Edith G. McCrary. They live on the premises. [Source: City Directory]

1951                              At 100-102 West Main Street is Barrick Farm Supply, feed dealers. Owner is Robert L. Barrick. He lives with his wife Margaret Barrick at 830 West Hull Street. [Source: City Directory]

1951                              104 West Main Street, upstairs and down, is vacant. [Source: City Directory]

March 2, 1952             Irvin S. Walton dies. Born 1875. Buried in Fairview Cemetery, Denison. [Sources: Tombstone; City of Denison death records, Vol. 4, p. 145]

1953                              At 100-102 West Main St. is Webb Farm Supply. Martellus R. Webb is proprietor. Guy Webb Jr. is deliveryman. Martellus and wife Patsy Webb live at 500 East Monterrey Street. Guy lives on the Bells Highway. Living there with him is Wilma Webb, a waiter at Carl’s Restaurant. [Source: City Directory]

1953                              At 104 West Main is the Municipal Building Annex. Housed there are the State Department of Public Welfare, with Jerry E. Osburn, a Sherman resident, as supervisor; the County Health Unit, with Frank P. Miller, another Sherman resident, as director; and the Civic Welfare Association, with Hazel Killingsworth as secretary. She lives with her husband, Fay Killingsworth, an accountant, at 2 Loy Drive. [Source: City Directory]

1953                              104-1/2 West Main Street is vacant. [Source: City Directory]

June 1954                    Walter P. Lebrecht retires as Tax Assessor and Collector, City of Denison. He has served in this capacity since January 1, 1934. [Source: “Retiring from Tax Post”; “Lebrechts to Observe Golden Anniversary”]

1955                              100-102 West Main Street is vacant. [Source: City Directory]

1955                              At 104 West Main is the Municipal Building Annex. Housed there are (1) the State Department of Public Welfare, with Jerry E. Osburn, a Sherman resident, as supervisor; (2) the County Health Unit, with Frank P. Miller, another Sherman resident, as director; and (3) the Civic Welfare Association, with Hazel A. Killingsworth as secretary. She lives with her husband, Fay Killingsworth, at 2 Loy Drive. Fay is manager of Bob’s Radio Service. [Source: City Directory]

April 5, 1955                Walter P. Lebrecht is elected to the post of city commissioner/ alderman, City of Denison, defeating incumbent opponent Ben F. Lacy by an “overwhelming” vote of 1,662 to 424. Elected mayor at the same time is Harry Glidden. The other commissioner is C. A. “Hi” Weideman. [Sources: Denison Herald, April 6 and 10, 1955; City Council Minutes, April 9, 1955]

April 8, 1955                Walter P. Lebrecht elected president of Grayson County Scottish Rite Association. [Source: Denison Herald, “Year in Review,” Jan. 22, 1956]

September 6, 1955     Carrie Belle Pollard Lebrecht dies in Los Angeles, California, at age 87. She had never remarried. Buried in Southern California. [Sources: “Mrs. L. Lebrecht, Widow”; Affidavit given by Louis Lebrecht, Grayson County Deed Records, Vol. 842, pp. 339-42; Hank Lebrecht to Mavis Bryant, April 22, 2006]

August 8, 1956            Myrtle Walton Lebrecht and husband Louis H. Lebrecht sell to Royden L. Lebrecht Lots 14 and 15, Block 1, Stewart’s Addition [107 West Murray Street], Denison, for ten dollars “and the love and affection we have for our son.” They retain a life estate “with the right to use and occupy [the property] during their lifetimes.” Notary public is Alexander Gullett. [Source: Grayson County Deed Records, Vol. 841, pp. 525-26]

August 18, 1956          Walter P. Lebrecht signs a sworn affidavit concerning the title to Lots 1 and 2, Block 53, Original Town Plat [100 and 102 West Main Street], Denison. Rosalee Herzinger and Adele R. Kohl, elderly members of Denison’s German-American community, provide supporting affidavits. [Source: Grayson County Deed Records, Vol. 842, pp. 339-44] Note: Walter Lebrecht, at the time serving as a City Commissioner in Denison, swears in his affidavit that his father was never married to anyone other than his mother, Carrie B. Pollard Lebrecht. The two elderly women swear the same thing. Surely Walter and the women were aware that Louis Lebrecht was married to Carrie’s sister, Fannie W. Pollard Lebrecht, before marrying Carrie.

October 23, 1956       Denison votes to adopt council-manager form of city government. [Sources: Denison Herald, October 24, 1956; June 25, 1972]

December 4, 1956      New five-member Denison City Council elected. E. J. Lilley is mayor, Carl Flanery Sr. is mayor pro tem, and other councilmen are Albert Martin, Ralph Porter, and B. McDaniel. David A. Harner is hired as first city manager. Walter P. Lebrecht retires after the new council is installed on December 11. [Sources: Denison Herald, Dec. 5 and 11, 1956]

1957                              City Directory lists Walter P. Lebrecht but no occupation. [Source: City Directory]

1957                              Walter P. Lebrecht “is back at the city hall doing some special work for the tax department on a temporary basis.” [Source: “Lebrechts to Observe Golden Anniversary”]

1957                              At 100-102 West Main Street is the Repair Department of Denison Marine Center, Boats and Motors. Omar Taylor, manager, resides in Durant, Oklahoma. The firm is owned by Richard A. McDerby, with headquarters at 131 West Chestnut Street. He lives with wife Catherine R. McDerby at 918 South French Avenue. [Source: City Directory]

1957                              At 104 West Main is the Municipal Building Annex. Housed there are (1) the State Department of Public Welfare, with Jerry E. Osburn, a Sherman resident, as supervisor; (2) the County Health Unit, with Frank P. Miller, another Sherman resident, as director; and (3) the Civic Welfare Association. Martin Manning is chairman of the board of CWA and also executive director of the City Housing Authority. He lives with wife Janet W. Manning and son Hagan Manning at 917 West Crawford Street. (4) Also housed in the annex is the Boy Scouts of America, Circle Ten Council. Warren R. Blood is district executive. He lives with wife Verna J. Blood at 1824 Meadowlark Lane. [Source: City Directory]

March 31, 1957           Walter P. Lebrecht and Bertha Walton Lebrecht celebrate fiftieth wedding anniversary with a Sunday afternoon reception in the banquet room of the Hotel Denison. [Source: “Lebrechts to Observe Golden Anniversary”]

November 16, 1957    Warranty Deed recorded at Grayson County Courthouse, in which Walter P. Lebrecht and wife Bertha W. Lebrecht; Louis H. Lebrecht and wife Myrtle W. Lebrecht; Phillip D. Lebrecht, a single man of Los Angeles County, California; Julius S. Lebrecht and wife Eunice B. Lebrecht of Los Angeles County, California; Henry F. Lebrecht, a single man of Los Angeles County, California; and Frank G. Lebrecht and wife Maebelle C. Lebrecht of Los Angeles County, California, sell Lots 1 and 2, Block 53, Original Town Plat [100 and 102 West Main Street], Denison, to Cecil Hardy and Franz H. Kohfeldt of Kohfeldt & Son, Trustees [for the City of Denison], for $15,000. [Source: Grayson County Deed Records, Vol. 863, p. 256]

May 7, 1958                 The Denison City Council authorizes purchase of the Lebrecht Building at 100 and 102 West Main Street for $15,000. “The purchase of Lots 1 and 2, Block 53, Original Town Plat, was brought up for discussion. It was reported that this building became available for sale late in 1957, but the City could not buy it at that time, so Mr. Cecil Hardy and Kohfeldt & Son purchased it as trustees for the City. A motion by Councilman [B.] McDaniel, seconded by Councilman [Carl] Flanery, which carried unanimously, approved the purchase of these lots at a cost of $15,000 for the purpose of acquiring a site for the ultimate location of a Police Station and approved the payment of the $15,000 to the State National Bank from the Police Building Fund.” [Source: City Council Minutes, May 7, 1958, as amended on May 29, 1959]

November 6, 1958     “The Lebrecht Building at 100 West Main, which was purchased by the City for future City Hall expansion early in 1958, was discussed by the City Council. Before making a final decision as to what should be done with the building, the Council requested that a group of citizens from the Advisory Committee which developed the Denison Improvement Program be called in to study the situation and present their opinion to the Council.” Among those on the Advisory Committee were Ed Young (chair of the Advisory Committee), John Anderson, Saunders Freels, Mrs. Kenneth Mills, Larry Stenger, M. J. Thomas, and Bill Wilcox. [Sources: City Council Minutes, November 6 and 19, 1958]

November 19, 1958   “[City Manager David Harner] stated that the Council is now discussing the disposition of the Lebrecht Building at 100 West Main, bought earlier in 1958 for City Hall expansion, and that they are waiting for a decision from the Legislature before they can sell bonds for development of Off-Street Parking.” [Source: City Council Minutes, November 19, 1958]

1959                              100 and 102 West Main Street are not listed in the City Directory.

1959                              At 104 West Main Street is the Municipal Building Annex. Housed there: (1) The State Department of Public Welfare, with Mrs. Ellen Marie Schirmer as supervisor. Widow of Theodore C. Schirmer, she lives at 1206 West Chestnut Street. (2) The County Health Unit, with Frank P. Miller, a Sherman resident, as director. (3) The Civic Welfare Association, with Mrs. Louise Harvey as executive secretary. With husband Eugene Harvey, salesman at Jennings Furniture Company, she lives at 613 East Gandy Street. (4) Boy Scouts of America, Circle Ten Council. Warren R. Blood is district executive. He lives with wife Verna J. Blood at 1824 Meadowlark Lane. She is a teacher at Denison Junior High School. [Source: City Directory]

January 25, 1959       The Denison Herald reports: “Purchase of the old Lebrecht building at Main and Houston was completed [in 1958], giving the city a 225-foot front on Main Street. This was done with bond money for future expansion. Plans call for asking of bids in February [1959] for razing of the building. The lot will be used for parking space until needed for something else.” [Source: Denison Herald, January 25, 1959]

May 29, 1959               The City Council amends the wording of minutes from City Council meeting on May 7, 1958, concerning purchase of Lots 1 and 2, Block 53, Original Town Plat (Lebrecht Building). [Source: City Council Minutes, May 29, 1959]

[DATE?] 1959              Demolition of Lebrecht Building, 100-104 West Main Street. The site was temporarily turned into a parking lot. [Source: ] [NEED RESEARCH]

October  1959             Walter P. Lebrecht acts as receiver in a legal proceeding involving Lot 18, Block 19, Stevens Addition [NEED STREET ADDRESS], Denison; the property is conveyed to Leo N. Burleson and Bessie V. Burleson. [Source: Grayson County Deed Records, Vol. 901, p. 575-78]

January 17, 1960        The Denison Herald reports: “The old Lebrecht building at Main and Houston was razed [in 1959] and turned temporarily into a parking lot by the City. This gave the City a 225-foot front on Main Street.” [Source: “Hospital, Urban Renewal Projects Challenge City as 1960 Launched,” Denison Herald, January 17, 1960]

 

***END OF AN ERA***

 

November 27, 1962    Walter P. Lebrecht dies in Denison, Texas, at age 76. Buried with Masonic graveside services in the Walton plot at Fairview Cemetery, Denison. Pallbearers are Bruen Boydston, C. R. Parham, M. F. Blacknall, H. H. Vanston, Aubrey Hughes, and John H. Crane. He was a member of Waples United Methodist Church. [Sources: Tombstone; City of Denison death records; Obituary, Denison Herald, December 2, 1962; “Lebrechts to Observe Golden Anniversary at Sunday Event”]

1963                              Bertha B. Walton Lebrecht, widow of Walter P. Lebrecht, lives at 117 West Murray Street. [Source: City Directory]

January 7, 1963          Walter P. Lebrecht’s will is recorded at Grayson County Courthouse. Bertha Lebrecht is executrix of the estate. The estate consists of Lot 12, Block 1, Stewart’s [First] Addition [117 West Murray Street], Denison; some $11,000 in cash in the Citizens National Bank, State National Bank, and the Denison Federal Savings & Loan Association, all Denison; ten shares of stock in the State National Bank, Denison, worth $1,175;  and ten shares of stock in the North Texas Loan & Trust Co., Denison, worth $220. The will leaves everything “in fee simple to my beloved wife, Bertha Walton Lebrecht.” [Source: Grayson County Probate Records, File No. 12971]

1966                              Myrtle A. Walton Lebrecht not listed in City Directory.

April 21, 1966               Myrtle Azola Walton (Mrs. Louis H.) Lebrecht dies in Denison, Texas, at age 80. She was a member of Trinity Baptist Church. Buried at Fairview Cemetery, Denison. [Sources: Tombstone; City of Denison death records; Obituary, Denison Herald, April 22, 1966]

September 18, 1966   Denison architect and city planner Donald Mayes dies.

1967                              Louis H. Lebrecht not listed in City Directory.

NEED DATE                Louis H. Lebrecht dies in Tucson, Arizona. [Source: ?]

July 11, 1972               June Lebrecht (Mrs. Thomas W.) Chenoweth, adopted daughter and sole child of Walter P. Lebrecht and Bertha Walton Lebrecht, is made guardian of Bertha Walton Lebrecht, “a person of unsound mind.” At this time Bertha is living with June in Marion County, Indiana. June also is allowed to sell Bertha’s house on Lot 12, Block 1, Stewart’s First Addition [117 West Murray Street], Denison. She sells the deteriorating house to John L. Davis and wife Lois Davis for $1,200 cash. [Source: Grayson County Probate Records, File No. 16503]

1972-73                         Bertha B. Lebrecht lives at Denison Manor Inc. (nursing home), 603 East Highway 69, Denison. [Source: City Directory]

October 26, 1973        Bertha Beatrice Walton (Mrs. Walter P.) Lebrecht dies at Denison, Texas, at age 84. She was a member of Waples Memorial Methodist Church. Buried in the Walton plot with husband Walter at Fairview Cemetery, Denison. [Sources: City of Denison death records, Vol. 23, p. 115; Obituary, Denison Herald, October 28, 1973; Tombstone; Grayson County Probate Records, File No. 17061]

1974                              No Lebrechts mentioned in City Directory.

1978                              Phillip D. Lebrecht dies. [WHERE?] He was cremated and his ashes scattered.

1996                              Louis Lebrecht’s ivory and onyx baton, presented to him in 1889 as leader of the Singing Section of the Verein Vorwaerts, is donated to City of Denison by Henry “Hank” Lebrecht Jr., on 100th anniversary of Louis’s election as mayor. Invocation was given by the Rev. Martin Lebrecht, an Orthodox minister, of Plano, Texas. At that time, Hank Lebrecht was a retired biochemist living in Portage, Michigan. He had taught at Stephen F. Austin University in Nacogdoches, Texas, for two years; and worked many years for Upjohn Corporation. [Sources: Hank Lebrecht, 1996; telephone conversation with Hank Lebrecht, Oct. 9, 2005]

October 9, 2004          Dianna Lebrecht, one of the four daughters of the late Royden L. Lebrecht and Natalie Lebrecht, marries Thomas Krieger in Jackson, Wisconsin. She is a 1971 graduate of the University of Arizona and completed four years of postgraduate study in real estate finance at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas. A 1978 graduate of the Milwaukee School of Engineering, Krieger is the son of the late Bob Fleischen and the late Audrey Fleischen. Both bride and groom are realtors with RE/MAX Premier Realty in Tucson, Arizona. “The couple share a mutual love of wildlife and nature.” [Source: Internet posting, “My Wedding Album,” tucson.com. Located via Google, November 2005]

 

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