A history of Texas and Texans . -ilies. These were thclirst Bohemians that settled westof the Colorado river. Incidentally it may be notedthat Fayette county is one of the chief centers of Bohe-mian population in Texas. According to the last census,of a total population of about thirty thousand, thecounty had about twenty-five hundred inhabitants bornin Austria, and nearly four thousand native Americansof Austrian parentage on both sides. Subsequently thefather moved on a farm four miles west of Scliulen-berg, where he died December 23, 1867. Augustine Haidusek had but little schooling as a bo
A history of Texas and Texans . -ilies. These were thclirst Bohemians that settled westof the Colorado river. Incidentally it may be notedthat Fayette county is one of the chief centers of Bohe-mian population in Texas. According to the last census,of a total population of about thirty thousand, thecounty had about twenty-five hundred inhabitants bornin Austria, and nearly four thousand native Americansof Austrian parentage on both sides. Subsequently thefather moved on a farm four miles west of Scliulen-berg, where he died December 23, 1867. Augustine Haidusek had but little schooling as a boy,and his knowledge of the English language was verymeagre until the beginning of the Civil war. About thattime he attended a school taught by a man named 1863, at the age of seventeen, he went with a droveof beeves to Louisiana, swam the cattle across the Mis-sissippi river at Port Hudson and they were sold to theConfederate Government. On his return home he enlistedin Company F of the Bates Regiment, was stationed at. cX^V^^^^^^-^^^ TEXAS AND TEXANS 1839 Velasco on the Gulf coast and continued in service untilJune 13, 1SG5, when he returned home and helped hisfather jrat in a crop. The year 1866 was spent in farming and in attendinga school taught by old man Mays below Weimar. During1867 he clerked for G. W. White in La Grange severalmouths, then returned home and spent the fall in cuttingand splittiiiL: four thousand post-oak rails for GeorgeJlciivs;ik, put the evenings to good advantage bystudyiug the English language by the light of the year 1S6S was a continuation of his farming experi-ence, though he also taught a term of school in thesummer. Difficulties and disadvantageous circumstancesseem to act only as a spur to the efforts of some men,and while he undoubtedly has possessed exceptionalnative endowments of intellect and character, Mr. Haid-usek during his early career overcame obstacles whichwould have disheartened a man of ordinary determina
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