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Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Pape, Gustav H.
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Description area
Dates of existence
1881-
History
Gustav Hermann Pape was born near Hanover, Germany in 1881. His family later moved to Brenham, TX. Gustav Hermann Pape graduated from Texas A&M College with a BS in Civil Engineering in 1904. He spent six years in West Africa introducing cotton growing on behalf of German Textile firms. Gustav H. Pape started a cotton firm of Wilson, Nabors & Pape in Waco, TX. Pape also co-owned cotton firms in Germany with Mr. Williams. Gustav Hermann Pape married Eleanor Fay (Nell) Jurney of Waco, TX in 1912. Gustav H. Pape retired in 1951.