| LC control no. | n 88673019 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Trenckmann, William A., 1859-1935 |
| Variant(s) | Trenckmann, W. A., 1859-1935 |
| Associated place | Bellville (Tex.) |
| Birth date | 1859-08-23 |
| Death date | 1935-03-22 |
| Place of birth | Millheim (Tex.) |
| Place of death | Austin (Tex.) |
| Affiliation | Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas Texas School for the Blind |
| Profession or occupation | Teachers Editors Authors Legislators |
| Found in | nuc88-79240: Author's Austin County [MI] 1899? (hdg. on CtY rept.: Trenckmann, W. A.) Preserving German Texan identity, 2018: ECIP title page (William A. Trenckmann, 1859-1935) Data View (Born in Millheim, Texas, to a family of German immigrants who moved to Texas in the wake of the 1848 revolution, William Andreas Trenckmann was a teacher, journalist, and publisher. His education was cultivated at the brand new Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas; he later served on the college's board of directors and was even offered the presidency. From 1907 to 1909, he represented Austin County in the Texas legislature. Trenckmann's lasting contribution to Texas history, however, was the creation of Das Wochenblatt, a German-language weekly newspaper that he edited and published for over forty years. When the United States entered World War I, many German-language publications were suspended or otherwise heavily censored, but Trenckmann's newspaper was granted a rare exemption from the wartime government. From 1931 to 1933, Trenckmann serialized his memoirs, Erlebtes und Beobachtetes, or "experiences and observations." In Preserving German Texan Identity, historians Walter L. Buenger and Walter D. Kamphoefner present a revised and annotated translation of those memoirs as a revealing window into the lives of German Texans in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries) Handbook of Texas online, viewed May 1, 2018 (William Andreas Trenckmann, teacher, publisher, and author, was born on August 23, 1859, at Millheim, Austin County. In 1876 he joined the first class to enter Texas A&M. He was valedictorian of the first graduating class in 1879. Trenckmann started his career as a teacher in Frelsburg, and he later taught in Shelby; he was principal of the Bellville school. Trenckmann represented Austin County in the House of the Thirtieth and Thirty-first Texas legislatures from 1907 to 1909 and moved with his wife and four children from Bellville to Austin. He served as a member and chairman of the board of directors of Texas A&M; he was asked to become its president but did not accept. He also served as chairman of the board of directors of the Blind Institute (now the Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired). A complete file of Das Wochenblatt is available at the library of the University of Texas at Austin. Several of Trenckmann's larger works have been translated. He died in Austin on March 22, 1935) OCLC, viewed May 1, 2018 (AAP: Trenckmann, William A. ; Trenckmann, William A., 1859-1935 ; Trenckmann, W. A. ; Trenckmann, W. A. (William Andreas) ; usage: William A. Trenckmann) |
| Associated language | eng ger |
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