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Note: Great Cotton Country.

A. E. Huebner, one of the largest land holders in this county, is very enthusiastic over Matagorda county and the prospects for her becoming one of the greatest cotton counties in Texas. He said that he and his two brothers came to Matagorda county in 1886 and that in 1887 planted their first cotton crop. This they kept up for several years and in all their many crops they did not experience a single entire failure, although one short crop was recorded. The best crop was one of two bales to the acre and the rest ran from one-half to a bale. In late years, however, the Huebner Brothers, whose holdings go beyond 10,000 acres of some of the finest land in Matagorda county, have been stock raising and what cotton they have raised has only been incidental. But Mr. Huebner says that cotton is not an experimental crop here by any means and that this county is as good for the staple, if not better, than any in Texas. He is a strong believer in diversification and gives an interesting account of what might be accomplished in this, the brightest Mid-Coast county. [The Matagorda County Tribune, Bay City, Texas, April 7, 1911]

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Andrew Huebner, pioneer cattleman of Matagorda County, who has participated in the development of the ranching industry over a period of more than half a century, has one of the larger ranches in the Bay City locality, where he has made his headquarters since 1885. In that year, Mr. Huebner, in association with his father, the late John A. Huebner, bought the Bertrand League and began stocking it with good grade beef cattle, and, since his father?s death, Mr. Huebner has operated the ranch alone. He controls ten thousand acres of land, all of which is excellent pasture land, with good grass and water for the twelve hundred head of cattle that he runs. He has consistently graded up his herd, introducing the Hereford and Brahma strains, until he has one of the finest in this locality, with some excellent breeding stock as its nucleus. The spread lies two and three-fourths miles South, and one-half mile West, of Bay City, and is not only one of the oldest ranches in this locality, but one of the best equipped. Mr. Huebner, although past his eightieth year, still rides out every day inspecting his stock, and takes an active part in the supervision of all ranch work. Mr. Huebner was born at La Grange, Texas, on the twenty-ninth day of September, 1853, and is a son of John A. Huebner and Pauline Wilrich Huebner. John A. Huebner, one of the early settlers of Texas, came to the United States from his native Bavaria, Germany, in the late thirties and in 1840 settled in Fayette County, which had been organized two years earlier, he having spent the intervening years in Iowa, and at New Braunfels, in Comal County, Texas. As a boy Mr. Huebner traveled by ox cart, and spent his youth on his father?s farm. An observant lad, he soon noticed that while the farm boys had little of no money to spend the rancher?s son always had plenty of pocket money, and he then decided to be a cowman, he spending theyears that followed working toward this end, the purchase of the Bertrand League being the most significant achievement of the early years. Mr. Huebner was married on the old Taylor Plantation, where the railway station of Don Tol is now located, in February, 1887, to Miss Loudie Taylor. They have four children: Lola, Lillie, Dudley and Ada. Mr. Huebner is a member of the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association, and has seldom missed one of its conventions. Ranching has always been to him more than a mere business and means of livelihood, providing him with hobby as well, and he has few equals at handling stock, his special interest being fine cattle and well trained cow ponies.
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Messrs. Andrew and Louis Huebner have been at the Beach for several days, to look after their repair work on their large land holdings. [The Daily Tribune, Friday, October 23, 1925]

Andrew Huebner, Pioneer Cattleman Matagorda County, Dies At Age 94
First Came To County In 1886 To Raise Cattle

Mr. Andrew Huebner, pioneer cattleman of Matagorda County, died Thursday evening at 8 o?clock, following an illness of long duration. He was 94 years of age and until recently was still ?riding the range? with the younger cowboys on his spread. It was in 1886, sixty two years ago, when Mr. Huebner was then a man of 32 with many tales of the Civil War still vividly in his mind, that he came to Matagorda County from Fayette County where he was born near La Grange. He began then to buy land in the county. In 1909 he moved his family here where they have lived since. Like many members of his family, he was extremely healthy with a constitution which allowed him to perform duties which would have felled many men younger. He thrived on outdoor life and hard work, enjoying his roundups with the enthusiasm of a tender foot. At 94 one would have considered him at a ripe old age, but he was four years a junior to his sister, Mrs. Lillie Richers who is now 98. And besides Mrs. Richers there is a younger brother surviving, Mr. Franz Huebner who is now 90. Both reside in Bay City. Another brother, Louis, preceded him in death. He too, had reached near the ninety mark at the time of his death. Mr. Huebner is also survived by two daughters, Mrs. Ada Hurst of Bay City and Mrs. Lola H. Brown of Ft. Worth; one son, M. D. Huebner of Bay City and several grandchildren and great grandchildren. Taylor Bros., are in charge of the arrangements but announcement of the funeral is withheld awaiting arrival of relatives. [The Daily Tribune, Bay City, Texas, June 11, 1948]

Excerpt from Historic Matagorda:

A Letter from Woodlief F. Brown to Lucille Huebner Wilkinson, dated November 21, 1961.
Grandpa?s (Andrew Huebner) story about coming to Bay Prairie was as follows:
Shanghai Pierce was a ?brainy? man who foresaw that the day of the free range was coming to an end. He began buying up all the land that he could buy. Much of the Gulf Coast was owned by people in New York and other places. He talked about it to his good friend, Tol Taylor. Tol Taylor said, ?Now when the Bertrand League comes on the market, keep your hand off, I want it.? Eventually Shanghai advised Tol Taylor that the Bertrand League was for sale. Tol Taylor went to Fayette County in a buggy and brought his young brother-in-law, Andrew Huebner, to see it, since he believed there was a good fortune for him in ranching on the coast. ?The Bertrand League is the prettiest land in Bay Prairie, and it has water at both ends,?he said. Grandpa (Andrew Huebner) did not have enough money to swing the deal so went to his father, John Andrew Huebner, with it. Grandpa related, ?Father, raised in the hills of Bavaria, did not like the flat coast country, but said if I would buy a third of it, he would buy the rest.? Grandpa made the purchase and borrowed a horse from Tol Taylor to go to Matagorda to record it, as Taylor told him would be necessary. He had to get to Matagorda by running the horse across the prairie from one herd of cattle to another. Mosquitoes were so bad that the cattle bunched up for protection and at each herd he could rest a little. I asked Grandpa this: ?If great-grandpa Huebner (John Andrew Huebner) came out of the Civil War with nothing but a lot of Confederate money, how had he accumulated the cash he had for the purchase?? He said, ?Well, for one thing, he sold a tract of land up in Fayette County ? 300 acres for $10 and acre.? I remarked that it seemed like a pretty big price. He said, ?Yes it was. The land wasn?t worth that much, but it had a good cedar rail fence around it, and the fence was worth more than the land was. You see, father (John Andrew) read the newspapers, an uncommon thing in Texas then, and he said there was a product coming on the market called barbed wire, and when it gets in common usage, cedar rail fences won?t be worth a thing. So he sold that 300 acres.?

Source: (Name)
Title: 1910 United States Federal Census
Author: National Archives and Records Administration
Call number: www.ancestry.com
Media: Electronic
Note: www.ancestry.com

Data:
Text: Texas, Fayette County, Precinct 8, E. D. 70, Page 4A.

Source: (Name)
Title: 1870 United States Federal Census
Author: National Archives and Records Administration
Call number: www.ancestry.com
Media: Electronic
Note: www.ancestry.com

Data:
Text: Texas, Fayette County, La Grange, Page 3.

Source: (Name)
Title: 1930 United States Federal Census
Author: National Archives and Records Administration
Call number: www.ancestry.com
Media: Electronic
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Data:
Text: Texas, Matagorda County, Precinct 1, E. D. 161, Page 5B.

Source: (Name)
Title: 1920 United States Federal Census
Author: National Archives and Records Administration
Call number: www.ancestry.com
Media: Electronic
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Data:
Text: Texas, Matagorda County, Precinct 1, E. D. 133, Page 5B.

Source: (Death)
Title: Bay City Tribune, Bay City, Texas
Publication: Newspaper
Media: Microfilm
Note: Good

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Text: June 11, 1948.

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