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Richard King (July 10, 1824 – April 14, 1885) was a riverboat captain, Confederate, entrepreneur, and most notably, the founder of the King Ranch in South Texas, which at the time of his death in 1885 encompassed over 825,000 acres (3,340 km 2).
During this time, Richard King purchased the Rincón de Santa Gertrudis grant, a 15,500 acres (63 km 2; 24.2 sq mi) holding that encompassed present-day Kingsville, Texas. It was purchased from the heirs of Juan Mendiola of Camargo on July 25, 1853, for $300. King sold Lewis an undivided half-interest in the land for $2,000.
Richard King came to the area in 1847 and was a pilot. [3] After the war, he traded goods in Mexico. [1] In 1850, he established a partnership with Richard King, James O'Donnell, and Charles Stillman called M. Kenedy and Company. They operated steamships on the Rio Grande, operating out of Brownsville, Texas. [1]
The King Ranch heirs own ranches in southern Texas that spread across over 900,000 acres. The ranch spawned from land was originally purchased by Captain Richard King in 1853 and subsequently ...
Henrietta Maria King (née Chamberlain; July 21, 1832 – March 31, 1925) was a rancher and philanthropist. [1] She was the wife of Richard King, who founded King Ranch, the largest ranch in Texas. [2] Their daughter Alice Gertrudis King Kleberg is the namesake of Alice, Texas. The Henrietta M. King High School in Kingsville, Texas is named ...
Charles Stillman started a transport company with Miflin Kenedy and Richard King after the Mexican–American War, under the name of King, Kenedy and Co. The transport company bought up the Government's surplus steam boats which were used to ferry U.S. forces and supplies up the river, from the seaport Los Brazos de Santiago, just 8 miles up ...
In the 1860s, Mifflin was partners with Richard King in the King Ranch where they had sheep, horses, and cattle in the 1860s. The partners also invested in land. In 1869, he purchased the Laureles Ranch in Nueces County, Texas, where the Kenedys next lived. The ranch consisted of 172,000 acres and employed 161 people.
Rudolph Kleberg (1847-1924) became a United States congressman, Marcellus Kleberg (1849-1913) studied law and served as city attorney for Galveston, Texas, and the youngest Kleberg son, also named Robert Justus Kleberg (1853-1932), managed the King Ranch and later married Alice Gertrudis King, the youngest daughter of cattle baron Captain ...