Adina Emilia De Zavala (1861-1955) was an early preservationist in San Antonio, who along with Clara Driscoll, was instrumental in helping to save the San Antonio de Valero Mission (the Alamo).  Her family moved from Galveston to a ranch outside San Antonio in 1873, and she studied in Galves ...more

Albert Friedrich opened Albert's Buckhorn Saloon in 1881 on Dolorosa St. downtown where he offered patrons a drink in exchange for antlers. His father Wenzel Friedrich provided his famed horn furniture for the saloon.  The saloon changed locations downtown a number of times in the late 19th ...more

Alexander Joske was the son of Julius Joske, who established a store on Main Plaza known as J. Joske in 1867. Alexander and his brothers joined his father in the business and a new store, J. Joske and Sons, opened in 1873.  The store relocated again two years later as Joske Brothers, and it' ...more

Anton Friedrich Wulff (1822-1894) was born in Germany and came to the United States in 1848.  He arrived in San Antonio by way of New York, Cincinnati, and New Orleans.  In 1852 he married the descendent of an early Canary Islander family and expanded his dry-goods business that he had ...more

Bishop Abraham S. Grant (1848-1911) was a bishop in the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church. Born a slave in Florida, he was educated after the Civil War and joined the AME Church in Jacksonville, Florida in 1868.  He received a license to preach in 1873, and in 1878 he moved to Texas w ...more