Jacob Kuechler
| Jacob Kuechler | |
|---|---|
| Born |
February 18, 1823 Hesse-Darmstadt |
| Died | April 4, 1893 (aged 70) Austin, Texas |
| Resting place | Oakwood Cemetery |
| Nationality | American |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Education |
Civil Engineering Forestry |
| Alma mater | University of Giessen |
| Occupation |
Commissioner Texas General Land Office Surveyor Politician Soldier |
| Spouse(s) | Marie Petri |
| Children | Camillo Richard Ralph |
Jacob Kuechler (1823–1893) was surveyor, conscientious objector during the Civil War, and commissioner of the Texas General Land Office. Kuechler pioneered the science of Dendrochronology to date natural events.
Jacob Kuechler, was born in Schoellenbach, Hesse-Darmstadt, on February 18, 1823, to engineering and forestry official Albrecht Kuechler.
Jacob Kuechler graduated from the University of Giessen with degrees in Civil Engineering and Forestry.
Kuechler arrived in Galveston on July 4, 1847, on the ship St. Pauli from Hamburg. He was part of the Darmstadt free-thinker fraternity of intellectuals from the universities of Giessen and Heidelberg and the Gewerbeschule of Darmstadt. They founded the Fisher-Miller Land Grant community of Bettina, Texas after John O. Meusebach negotiated the Meusebach–Comanche Treaty in 1847.
Bettina failed after the Adelsverein funding expired, and due to conflict of structure and authorities. The members dispersed to other communities, and Kuechler moved to Pedernales, Texas to take up farming and ranching with the Lungkwitz and Petri families.
As Gillespie County surveyor, he pioneered dendrochronology at Fredericksburg during the drought of the late 1850s by comparing tree-ring sequences for dating natural events. The Kuechler study was published in 1859 as "Das Klima von Texas" in Gustav Schleicher's Texas Staats-Zeitung and 1861 in the Texas Almanac.
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