Horatio Chriesman
| Horatio Chiesman | |
|---|---|
| Born | August 13, 1797 Virginia, United States |
| Died | November 1, 1878 (aged 81) Burleson County, Texas, United States |
| Occupation | Surveyor, captain, settler |
| Spouse(s) | Mary Kincheloe Augusta Hope |
| Children | Eleven |
| Relatives | William Kincheloe (father-in-law) |
Horatio Chriesman (August 13, 1797 – November 1, 1878) was an American surveyor, politician in Mexican Texas and participant in the Texas Revolution.
Born in Virginia, he became a surveyor in Kentucky, Missouri and Texas.
Chriesman served as mayor of San Felipe, Texas, and later on the committee to find a capital for the Republic of Texas.
Two towns have been named in his honor in Texas.
Chriesman was born on August 13, 1797, in Virginia.
He served as a surveyor in Kentucky and Missouri. In 1821, shortly after his wife died, he left Missouri for Texas with his father-in-law, William Kincheloe (1779–1835), aboard the schooner Only Son. They arrived on the Colorado River on June 19, 1822.
Chriesman became a member of the Old Three Hundred after Stephen F. Austin succeeded his father, Moses Austin, as empresario. Becoming the first to plot the headright Spanish grants on February 10, 1823, he continued until Stephen F. Austin's death in 1836.
He surveyed the Jack League, in what is now Fayette County, which was purchased in 1843 by the German immigration company Adelsverein as a slave plantation. It was named Nassau Plantation after the Duke of Nassau.
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