Notes from his daughter, Rose Levinson Burns: "Herman was born at Sleuzevo on the Vistula, Poland, of Hebrew ancestry. His parents wanted him to be a rabbi. He was educated in his parents' home to his twelfth year. His mother died, and his father remarried, and Herman was invited to New York to live with an uncle.
"Herman used fervor and interest to become worthy of his uncle's trust. In a few years, he was capable of teaching and he went to South Carolina. From there to Texas, in 1847. He bought property in the town of Brenham and engaged in the mercantile business.He was prosperous and became the leading merchant of Brenham.
"In a short while he was happily united in marriage to Miss Alice Bain on the 28th of January, 1848."
The first home that Levinson built was about 1847-8. His first five children were born in this home (known in 1935 as Simons home--Rose, 1935). The home they built in Brenham, TX (1860) was about a mile west of Brenham, and burned in 1915. "The home was constructed of cedar, hauled from the Lauderdale mills on the Yegua (?), about 20 miles distant. It was in very good state of preservation. The home consisted of 10 rooms and was two stories. Herman and Alice would go to New York to buy goods, and stop off in Baltimore to visit the relatives. "
A teacher was employed to teach the two eldest children (Tamar and Cecelia) Literary lessons and music, as the teacher was a professor of music.
"One August 28, 1861 (or 81) Mr. and Mrs. Levinson entertained McPhail's company of Texas cavalry, which left the following day for San Antonio to join Tom Green's Brigade. At that time, the new house was one of the finest in this section. Of the Brenham company of 118 men who were the guests of honor on this occasion, but 17 remain, and only two of them are residents of Brenham, Col. John Rankin and August Pflughaupt." Nov. 25, 1915, Houston Chronicle.
.. Rose L. Burns remembered watching this ball with her young sisters and giving McPhail a white rose.
Levinson served in the Confederacy, Giddings Battalion.
Dorothy Burns Peterson, granddaughter of Rose: "The store building, etc. was burned by rioting [former slaves] during the Reconstruction Period...He also had store in Caldwell and Columbus, two other small cities in the region. Listed in Galveston city directory as a merchant."
"Herman used fervor and interest to become worthy of his uncle's trust. In a few years, he was capable of teaching and he went to South Carolina. From there to Texas, in 1847. He bought property in the town of Brenham and engaged in the mercantile business.He was prosperous and became the leading merchant of Brenham.
"In a short while he was happily united in marriage to Miss Alice Bain on the 28th of January, 1848."
The first home that Levinson built was about 1847-8. His first five children were born in this home (known in 1935 as Simons home--Rose, 1935). The home they built in Brenham, TX (1860) was about a mile west of Brenham, and burned in 1915. "The home was constructed of cedar, hauled from the Lauderdale mills on the Yegua (?), about 20 miles distant. It was in very good state of preservation. The home consisted of 10 rooms and was two stories. Herman and Alice would go to New York to buy goods, and stop off in Baltimore to visit the relatives. "
A teacher was employed to teach the two eldest children (Tamar and Cecelia) Literary lessons and music, as the teacher was a professor of music.
"One August 28, 1861 (or 81) Mr. and Mrs. Levinson entertained McPhail's company of Texas cavalry, which left the following day for San Antonio to join Tom Green's Brigade. At that time, the new house was one of the finest in this section. Of the Brenham company of 118 men who were the guests of honor on this occasion, but 17 remain, and only two of them are residents of Brenham, Col. John Rankin and August Pflughaupt." Nov. 25, 1915, Houston Chronicle.
.. Rose L. Burns remembered watching this ball with her young sisters and giving McPhail a white rose.
Levinson served in the Confederacy, Giddings Battalion.
Dorothy Burns Peterson, granddaughter of Rose: "The store building, etc. was burned by rioting [former slaves] during the Reconstruction Period...He also had store in Caldwell and Columbus, two other small cities in the region. Listed in Galveston city directory as a merchant."
Notes from his daughter, Rose Levinson Burns: "Herman was born at Sleuzevo on the Vistula, Poland, of Hebrew ancestry. His parents wanted him to be a rabbi. He was educated in his parents' home to his twelfth year. His mother died, and his father remarried, and Herman was invited to New York to live with an uncle.
"Herman used fervor and interest to become worthy of his uncle's trust. In a few years, he was capable of teaching and he went to South Carolina. From there to Texas, in 1847. He bought property in the town of Brenham and engaged in the mercantile business.He was prosperous and became the leading merchant of Brenham.
"In a short while he was happily united in marriage to Miss Alice Bain on the 28th of January, 1848."
The first home that Levinson built was about 1847-8. His first five children were born in this home (known in 1935 as Simons home--Rose, 1935). The home they built in Brenham, TX (1860) was about a mile west of Brenham, and burned in 1915. "The home was constructed of cedar, hauled from the Lauderdale mills on the Yegua (?), about 20 miles distant. It was in very good state of preservation. The home consisted of 10 rooms and was two stories. Herman and Alice would go to New York to buy goods, and stop off in Baltimore to visit the relatives. "
A teacher was employed to teach the two eldest children (Tamar and Cecelia) Literary lessons and music, as the teacher was a professor of music.
"One August 28, 1861 (or 81) Mr. and Mrs. Levinson entertained McPhail's company of Texas cavalry, which left the following day for San Antonio to join Tom Green's Brigade. At that time, the new house was one of the finest in this section. Of the Brenham company of 118 men who were the guests of honor on this occasion, but 17 remain, and only two of them are residents of Brenham, Col. John Rankin and August Pflughaupt." Nov. 25, 1915, Houston Chronicle.
.. Rose L. Burns remembered watching this ball with her young sisters and giving McPhail a white rose.
Levinson served in the Confederacy, Giddings Battalion.
Dorothy Burns Peterson, granddaughter of Rose: "The store building, etc. was burned by rioting [former slaves] during the Reconstruction Period...He also had store in Caldwell and Columbus, two other small cities in the region. Listed in Galveston city directory as a merchant."
"Herman used fervor and interest to become worthy of his uncle's trust. In a few years, he was capable of teaching and he went to South Carolina. From there to Texas, in 1847. He bought property in the town of Brenham and engaged in the mercantile business.He was prosperous and became the leading merchant of Brenham.
"In a short while he was happily united in marriage to Miss Alice Bain on the 28th of January, 1848."
The first home that Levinson built was about 1847-8. His first five children were born in this home (known in 1935 as Simons home--Rose, 1935). The home they built in Brenham, TX (1860) was about a mile west of Brenham, and burned in 1915. "The home was constructed of cedar, hauled from the Lauderdale mills on the Yegua (?), about 20 miles distant. It was in very good state of preservation. The home consisted of 10 rooms and was two stories. Herman and Alice would go to New York to buy goods, and stop off in Baltimore to visit the relatives. "
A teacher was employed to teach the two eldest children (Tamar and Cecelia) Literary lessons and music, as the teacher was a professor of music.
"One August 28, 1861 (or 81) Mr. and Mrs. Levinson entertained McPhail's company of Texas cavalry, which left the following day for San Antonio to join Tom Green's Brigade. At that time, the new house was one of the finest in this section. Of the Brenham company of 118 men who were the guests of honor on this occasion, but 17 remain, and only two of them are residents of Brenham, Col. John Rankin and August Pflughaupt." Nov. 25, 1915, Houston Chronicle.
.. Rose L. Burns remembered watching this ball with her young sisters and giving McPhail a white rose.
Levinson served in the Confederacy, Giddings Battalion.
Dorothy Burns Peterson, granddaughter of Rose: "The store building, etc. was burned by rioting [former slaves] during the Reconstruction Period...He also had store in Caldwell and Columbus, two other small cities in the region. Listed in Galveston city directory as a merchant."
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