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People from Kerrville, Texas. Pages in category "People from Kerrville, Texas" The following 21 pages are in this category, out of 21 total.
Kerrville c. 1900. Kerrville is a city in Texas, and the county seat of Kerr County, Texas, United States. [4] The population of Kerrville was 24,278 at the 2020 census. [5] Kerrville is named after James Kerr, a major in the Texas Revolution, and friend of settler-founder Joshua Brown, who settled in the area to start a shingle-making camp. [6]
Joshua David Brown (1816–1876) [1] was a Texas pioneer who became the first settler of Kerrville, the seat of Kerr County in the Texas Hill Country west of San Antonio.Brown donated the original 4-acre (16,000 m 2) townsite for Kerrville, and the community was named after his friend and fellow Kentucky native, James Kerr (1790–1850).
Kerr County is a county located on the Edwards Plateau in the U.S. state of Texas.As of the 2020 census, its population was 52,598. [1] Its county seat is Kerrville. [2] The county was named by Joshua D. Brown for his fellow Kentucky native, James Kerr, a congressman of the Republic of Texas.
Harvey Hilderbran (born 1960), state representative from Kerrville; Republican candidate for state comptroller in 2014; Jim Hogg (1851–1906), first native Texan to become Governor of Texas; Vernon Edgar Howard (1937–1998), representative of the Texas House of Representatives, 1969–1975
In 1967, James Avery purchased 20 acres of land in Kerrville, TX, for his first store and manufacturing facility. The company’s headquarters are still located here today. In 1969, James Avery designed a pin for the Apollo XII astronauts to wear for their lunar mission. He was commissioned by NASA twice more for missions in 1989 and 1992.
The mother of a three-year-old boy who drowned at a water park in 2023, while she allegedly sat nearby and stared at her cell phone, has been indicted by a grand jury in connection with his death.
Schreiner University is a private Presbyterian university in Kerrville, Texas. The university enrolls an estimated 1,300 undergraduate and graduate students. It offers over 40 four-year undergraduate programs, an MBA and a master of education. Established in 1923, it has been coeducational since 1932.