political, social and religious platform, including: 1) Equal pay for equal work; 2) Direct election of the President of the United States; 3) Abolition of capital punishment; 4) "Slavery is an evil, the abolition of which is a requirement of democratic principles.."; 5) Free schools – including universities – supported by the state, without religious influence; and 6) Total separation of church and state. Personal life and death Dr. Keidel was married and widowed twice. His first wife Albertina Kramer died in childbirth on July 1, 1852. Their son Dr. Albert Keidel built the Keidel Memorial Hospital in Fredericksburg. Albert died December 21, 1914. Keidel's second marriage was to Caroline Kott of the Bear community in 1856. Caroline's health declined while she was carrying the couple's son Herman in 1865. The family relocated back to Fredericksburg, and Caroline died of a fever in August 1865 after Herman's birth. Keidel died of typhus pneumonia on January 9, 1870, and is buried with his second wife and her sister in the Kott Family Cemetery in Gillespie County. Notes References 1825 births 1870 deaths German emigrants to the Republic of Texas German emigrants to the United States German-American history German-American culture in Texas People from Hildesheim People from Fredericksburg, Texas Deaths from pneumonia in Texas American city founders Physicians from Texas American military personnel of the Mexican–American War American judges University of Göttingen alumni Deaths from typhus 19th-century American judges