Charles Goodwin Breeden

Breeden's firm reached well beyond Cuero. Breeden Brothers, founded in 1889 with his brother Walter and his brother-in-law Robert Wofford, dealt in cotton, wool, pecans, sugar futures, implements and groceries. In 1911 it joined Henry Runge's company as Breeden-Runge Wholesale, with Breeden as president until his death on December 30, 1925. Branches opened in Kenedy, Alice and Yorktown, and the house served eighteen counties from Lavaca to Brooks. Before that he spent twelve years working for the merchant and banker Otto Buchel, beginning in 1876. He is buried in Hillside Cemetery.

What the plaque says

Charles Goodwin Breeden A native of Victoria, Charles G. Breeden came to Cuero at age 15 to work on the "Weekly Star" newspaper. He made Cuero his permanent home and became an influential business and civic leader. A prominent south Texas merchant, he was a partner in the Breeden Brothers Company and the Breeden-Runge Wholesale Company. Charles Breeden married Mabel Claire Hall in 1915, and they were the parents of two daughters. Recorded - 1991

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Chisholm Trail Heritage Museum — 0.8 mi
  A cattle-country museum in Cuero's 1903 Knights of Pythias Hall, telling the Guadalupe Valley's 1866 drive north and the Sutton-Taylor feud that bloodied DeWitt County.
• Spoetzl Brewery — 24 mi
  The brewery a Czech and German railroad town started in a tin shed in 1909, run through Prohibition by a Bavarian who had brewed in Cairo, and then by his daughter.
• De León Plaza — 26 mi
  The central plaza of Guadalupe Victoria, the only predominantly Mexican colony in Texas, founded by Martín De León in 1824 and taken from his family after 1836.
• Museum of the Coastal Bend — 26 mi
  Victoria College's museum of thirteen thousand years on the middle Texas coast, from Clovis hunters and Karankawa potters to La Salle's lost Fort St. Louis and the first ranches.

More markers nearby

• Judge Henry Clay Pleasants — steps away
• Thomas M. Stell — steps away
• Cuero — 0.4 mi
• De Witt County Monument — 0.5 mi