Neuendorff Family

Paul Emil Maximilian Neuendorff was born in Prussia on 1830 August 10. He moved to Texas sometime before 1857, the year he married Maria Antonita Catarina Menchaca (1836-1911) in Bexar County. Neuendorff served the Confederacy during the Civil War and was later a member of the United Confederate Veterans organization. After the war, Max and Maria Neuendorff had eight children: Frederick, Antonio, Adela, John, Maria Antonia, Ana (or Anna), and Teresa (or Theresa). Neuendorff was appointed a notary public of Bexar County in 1879 and a special agent of the census office the following year. In 1885 Neuendorff was elected a Justice of the Peace for Bexar County. He became a naturalized American citizen on 1882 May 1 and died on 1885 November 6.

John Baptiste Neuendorff, the son of Max and Maria Neuendorff, was born in San Antonio on 1868 June 23. He married Mary Lemke on 1894 July 10; the couple had two children. As an inventor, Neuendorff filed many patents over the course of his life in a wide variety of areas, including a device to protect trouser cuffs from becoming soiled in 1897, a series of gasoline substitutes and the processes for making them in 1928, and many others. John Baptiste Neuendorff died in San Antonio on 1938 April 3.

References

Chabot, Frederick C. With the Makers of San Antonio . San Antonio, Texas: Artes Graficas, 1937.

Neuendorff Family Papers, 1857-1950, Col 905, Daughters of the Republic of Texas Library, San Antonio, Texas.