Who was Phillip Hendrik Hering Bogel?
If not for Bogel, Texas may have never become Texas. Bogel was an imposter who came into what became Texas because of 'embezzlement charges of tax ...
If not for Bogel, Texas may have never become Texas. Bogel was an imposter who came into what became Texas because of 'embezzlement charges of tax funds' in Holland. He left a wife and several children when he fled to the new world. Cecil E. Burney, writing about his Francis Holland ancestors of Grimes County in an East Texas Historical Journal article, states that 'Bogel was a genial international con-man who crossed into Texas from Louisiana in 1805.' Bogel renamed himself when he escaped from Holland arriving in April 1795 in Spanish Louisiana.