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Charles A. Schreiner was born in Riquewihr, France, in 1838 and moved to San Antonio, Texas, in 1852. He served in the Texas Rangers from 1854 to 1857 and in the Confederate Army from 1861 to 1865. On this site in 1869, he opened a small store made of cypress planks, and from that humble beginning he built a large business empire that included banking, ranching, land holdings, and marketing wool and mohair. His business was one of the first in the country to recognize the value of mohair, and in 1930 Kerrville became known as the Mohair Capital of the World. He was elected captain of the Kerrville Mounted Rifles in 1875 and carried this title for the remainder of his life. One of his major contributions to the Kerrville community was the founding of Schreiner Institute, now Schreiner University, in 1923.
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