Eda and Ilse - Hardcover

Carrington, Judith; Juanita Herff Drought Chipman

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1483622061 ISBN 13: 9781483622064

Publisher: Xlibris, 2013

Synopsis

Grieving the sudden death of her beloved husband a few years after they lost their first child Eda Kampmann Herff picks up an abandoned ledger and starts writing a Diary on the first day of 1884 A century later her granddaughter Ilse Herff Frost yields to a grandson s pleading and writes her Reminiscence She recounts growing up in South Texas Boerne and San Antonio in the early 20th century These two women are descendents of J H Kampmann one of the 19th century German settlers who brought their enterprise culture and utopian ideals to the vivid Mexican city of San Antonio JHK was a dynamic civic leader He built several of the classic German houses in the city s King William District along with now historic business buildings downtown like the Menger Hotel He also founded two breweries and a bank that later became a significant cornerstone in the Frost Bank organization Eda was JHK s daughter She married a Herff a son in a family of active physicians serving the burgeoning population of the young city Herffs were among the founders of Boerne in Texas Hill Country Eda records 30 months of 19th century daily life in her Diary as she raises her surviving son participates in social and civic life and travels Ilse JHK s great granddaughter was a daughter of that son of Eda s known as Johnny or Buby Herff in her Diary He eventually became another generation s Dr John Herff Ilse s Reminiscence details life two generations later as her family splits time between the city and the ranch in Boerne These two documents are preserved through the efforts of two more Kampmann Herff descendents Judith Carrington is the granddaughter of Elizabeth Ilse s Aunt Elizabeth who was born to the diarist Eda after she remarried Judith found Eda s Diary among family memorabilia hidden in her mother s storage Judith made the Diary available to The Witte Museum in San Antonio for an exhibit chronicling the early German settlers including a special collection docu

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• Publisher: Xlibris
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1483622061
• ISBN 13: 9781483622064
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 166