The Chronological History of
Harlingen
by
Norman Rozeff
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Pre-Historical
Pre-Harlingen
History Prior to the Twentieth Century
Decade 1900 to 1909
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Decade 1910 to 1919
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Decade 1920 to 1929
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Decade 1930 to 1939
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Decade 1940 to 1949
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Decade 1950 to 1959
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Decade 1960 to 1969
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Decade 1970 to 1979
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Decade 1980 to 1989
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Decade 1990 to 1999
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Decade 2000 to 2009
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Index of Surnames in the Chronological History of Harlingen
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A
Abrego, Joe, 1910
Adair, Mrs. T. W., 1960
Adams, Ala Inatoe, 1913
Adams, Annette, 1909,
Adams, Beulah, 1909
Adams, Bob, 1937
Adams, Bros., 1953
Adams, Burton, 1909
Adams, C.E., 1913
Adams, C.H., 1913
Adams, Catherine, 1909
Adams, Caulton, 1909
Adams, Clara 1909
Adams, Earl 1909,
Adams, Elijah Harvey, 1909
Adams, Elijah, 1909
Adams, Elijah Keith, 1909
Adams, Frances Aileen, 1944
Adams, Harriet, 1909, 2002
Adams, Harvey, 1909
Adams, Helen, 1909
Adams, James (Cabbage), 1913
Adams, Jess, 1898
Adams, Jesse L., Pre-Harl.1898, 1910
Adams, L. L., 1900-09
Adams, Lawrence, 1898
Adams, Lucy Haynes, 1898
Adams, Mae, 1909
Adams, Malcolm, 1973
Adams, Margaret Sweeney, 1909
Adams, Mrs. Carlos (Quinnie), 1986
Adams, Mrs. E. H., 1913
Adams, Roy E., 1913
Adams, Sarah, 1909
Adams, Taney, 1898
Adams, Valerie Benoist , 1928
Adams, W.T., 1900-09
Adams, Wesley, 1928
Adkins, George, 1973
Adolph, Rose, 1930
Aguilar, Gavino, 1957
Aguilar, Robert, 1957
Aguirre family, 2003
Alaniz, Dr. Ricardo, 2003
Alaniz, Rose, 1923
Alaniz, W. W, 1923
Alberti, Lawrence, 1950-74
Alberts, Annabel, 2005
Albright, C.P., 1908
Alcott, Edward (Bert), Jr., 1931, 1951, 1960, 1969
Alcott, Edward (Ed), Sr., 1931, 1954, 1968
Alcott, Delores (Lori) Ann Cox, 1931
Alcott, Mark, 1931
Alcott, Mary Ann, 1931
Alcott, Mary Serena Lemon, 1931
Aldridge, 1925
Alexander, James, 1971
Alexander, Lila, 1928
Alexander, Van B., 1928
Allen, Dorothy, 1918
Allen, F. M., 1921
Allen, Henry, 1917
Allen, Howard, 1920
Allen, Janet, 1918
Allen, Lloyd, 1917
Allen Lloyd E., 1918
Allen, Lloyd E., Jr., 1918
Allen, Mabel, 1917
Allen, William Edward, 1917
Allen, William J. "Bill," 1938
Allerdice, Ada R., 1944
Allerton, Sgt. John S., 1965
Allex, David, 1963, 1996
Allhands, James L., 1950
Allison, Clar Lie, 1940
Alsbury and Son, 1911
Altus, 1925
Altus, Mrs. Clara, 1925
Altus, James Daniel, 1932
Altus, James W. (Kelly) , 1932
Alvarez, Francisco, 1910
Alvarez, Rev. R.B., 1962
Ambert, R.R., 1921
Amidon, Dr. Charles, 1945
Anderson, Guy, 1970, 1981
Anderson T. Howard, 1996
Anderson William (Andy) C., 1941, 19567
Anderson, Howard, 1974
Anderson, Laverne Vernon, 1918
Anderson, Mrs. Earle W. Brazil, 1915
Anderson, Teddie Howard, 1918
Anderwald, Eddie, 1980
Anglin, Elmer W. (E.W.), 1907 1910, 1921, 1929, 1931, 1937, 1939, 1959
Anglin, Mrs. E. W., 1933
Anglin, Elmer, Jr., 1910
Anglin, Emmett, 1908-09
Anglin, E.O., 1920, 1921
Anglin, Everett, 1905
Anglin, Lawson A., 1907, 1918, 1920, 1939
Anglin, Mayme (Mamie), 1923, 1926
Anglin, Olive, 1907
Antone, Albert, 1940
Apel, Annie, Pre-Harl. 1901
Applewhite, Marshall, Heiff, 1997
Arispe, Tomas, 2005
Armstrong, John B., 1903
Armstrong, William E., 1920-39
Arndt, Rev. A.W., 1925
Arnette, Aline, 1924
Arnold, E. O. 1926
Arredondo, Eddie D., 2003
Ashcraft, J.B. III, 1961
Ashley, Shirley, 1975
Atchison, J. C., 1924, 1926
Atchison, John Jr. and Lorene, 1953
Athey, Mrs. Isla Lou, 1919
Atlee, E. G., 1928
Atrops. Rev. H., 1922
Aune, Todd, 2009
Aune, Steve, 2009
Aultman, O., 1912
Austin, E.O., 1910-15
Autry, R. L., 1910
Avery, Catherine E., Pre-Harl. 1898
Avery, Henry, Pre-Harl. 1898
Avery, J. T., 1912
Avery, T.S., Pre-Harl. 1898
Avery, Thomas Jesse, Pre-Harl. 1898
Axelrod, Abe, 1926
Aycock, Sue Vaughn, 1928
Ayres, William Eugene, 1946
Ayres, William, Sr., 1945
Ayoub, Dave, 1961
Bailey, B.E., 1930
Bailey, Mrs. Kate, 1908, 1910
Baize, Ira T., 1920
Baize, Velma, 1923
Baker, A. Y., 1928
Baker, Ada, 1917
Baker, Audrey May, 1911
Baker, Bessie Beatrice, 1911
Baker, Bessie Gaskill, 1911
Baker, Blanche, Elizabeth, 1911
Baker, Bob, 1925
Baker, F. B., 1911
Baker, Gladys Juanita, 1911
Baker, John T., 1911
Baker, John Thurloe , 1911
Baker, Kay Wendell, 1911
Baker, L.R., 1949, 1968
Baker, Lila Salina, 1911,1929
Baker, Loren Major Loree, 1911
Baker, Mrs. J.C. Mitchell, 1925
Baker, Neal Vivian1911
Baker, P. W., 1932
Baker, Ray Wendell, 1911
Baker, Sam, 1925
Baker, Samuel J., 1919
Baker, Searcy, 1909
Baker, Virginia T. Dyer, 1919
Baker, Willard Gaskill, 1911
Bakhaus, O.F., 1950
Balch, G.T., 1920
Baldridge, John Raymond, 1907
Baldridge, Lillian Weems, 1905, 1907, 1914, 1928, 1930
Baldridge, Ramona, 1909-10
Balduf, Christian, Pre-Harl., 1895, 1907
Baldwin, W.J., 1925, 1926
Ballard, E.F., 1911
Ballard, Mrs. Margaret Elmore, 1919
Ballard, Warren W., 1909, 1948, 1962
Balli, Armando, 1905
Balli, Nicolosa, 1913
Barbe, Archie, 1910
Barbee, Allen T., 1970
Barbee, David Allen, 1909, 1910
Barbee, Lucille, 1908-09
Barbee, Luella, 1908-09
Barbee, Quinton, 1908-09
Barclay, Morgan, Pre-Harl. 1855, 1874
Bard, Mark, 1955
Bard, O.N. (Oscar Newton), 1955, 1965, 1967, 1986,
Barg, Ella, 1913
Barg, Mr. & Mrs. Ferdinand, 1913
Barrett, Howard, 1928
Barnett, J.R., 1909
Barnett, L.L., 1922
Barry, Hubert, 1911
Barth, Ernest C. 1922, 1925
Bartlett, John, 1909
Barton, H. M., 1921, 1922
Barton, Mrs. Edith McElwain, 1914, 1959
Bass, Dr. V.M., 1937
Bassart, Julia, 1923-26
Bats, O.G., 1907
Bauer, Vivian, 2008
Baw, Col. Edward L., 1960
Baxter , Sallie Murphey, 1927
Baxter, Brian, 1927
Baxter, Murphey, 1927
Baxter, Robert W. 1926, 1927, 1931
Baxter, Robert, 1927
Baxter, Tommy, 1927
Baxter, William C., 1954
Baynon, Thomas, Pre-Harl. 1855
Beach, Austin T., 918
Beach, Essie, 1918
Beasley, Michaela, 1906
Bebrick, 1930
Beck, Alfred
Beck, D.C., 1920
Beck, George, 1934, 1960
Beck, J.P., 1920
Belchner, Minnie, 1909
Bell, Alan, 1951
Bell, Dr. S.H., 1903, 1907, 1910, 1913
Bell, Henry, 1905
Bell, Jeff 1958
Bell, Linnie, 1900
Benevides, Ruben, 1948
Bennett Mrs. E.C. (Jennie Reed), 1921
Bennett, E. C., 1921, 1922, 1927, 1937, 1949
Bennett, Judge Fred, 1920
Bennett, Mildred, 1921
Bennett, Mrs. E.C., 1947
Bennett, Mrs. H. E. (Mary Jones), 1905
Bennett, Russell J., 1921
Benoist, A. E., 1928
Benoist, A. L., 1925, 1926, 1928, 1937, 1958, 1963, 1971
Benoist, Hattie , 1926
Benoist, Valerie, 1926
Benson, Joyce, 1978
Benson, R.C., 1978
Benton, Kenneth, 2007
Bentsen, Lloyd Millard, Jr., 1948
Berg, Patty, 1948
Berly, C.J., 1920
Berly, Marion Elizabeth Walker, 1920
Berly, Sid, 1920
Bermack, Lottie, 1928
Berna, R.C., 1950
Bernfield, Dr. Martin, 1934
Berry, Dorothy Lynn, 1924
Berry, Marlene Margaret Stahl. 1972
Berry, Nathan, 1972
Bhata, Andy, 2003
Bhata, Arun, 2002
Bhata, Vbhuit, 2002
Bickley, Charles, 1985
Bickley, Peggy Bush, 1985
Bihner, Bill, 1920
Bingham, Marshall, 1959, 1961, 1962, 1963
Bingley Bros., 1925
Binny, Mrs. Charley, 1961
Binz, Paul, 2006, 2007
Bishop, F.Z., 1918, 1920
Bisno, Jules, 1943
Black, William C., 1937
Blackstone, Harry Jr., 1920-1939
Blackwell, C.W., 1930-34
Blake, Gregory Michael, 2000
Blakeney, J. S., 1928, 1936
Blalack, Peter Ebenezer, 1907, 1913
Blankin, D. B., 1959
Blaylock, R. C., 1956
Bleakney, Dr. Phil A., 1949
Bledsoe, Ralph, 1937
Bliss, Stanley W., 1927, 1929
Block, C., 1914
Block, Harlon H., 1995
Blocker, Mr., 1935
Blunk, Mrs. H. G., 1927
Blythe, R. P., 1926
Bobo, C. P., 1920, 1922, 1928
Bobo, C.A., 1925
Bobo, Jesse, 1920
Bobo, Lucille, 1923
Bobo, Max 1928
Bobo, Mrs. C.P. (Ellen Harlow), 1920
Bobo, Scott, 1920
Bobo, S.S., 1926
Bock, Charles, Sr., 1906
Bodenhamer, David, 1981
Bodenhamer, Don Sr., 1935
Bodenhamer, Linda, 2000
Bodenhamer, Travis, 2000
Boggus, Frank, 1933, 1974, 1983, 2004
Boggus, J. Lewis, 1920-39, 1933, 1945, 1948, 1951, 1958, 1962, 1965, 1966, 1971
Boggus, Mrs. J. Lewis (Maude), 1920-39
Bohuskey, E. & M., 1951
Boner Dona P., 1992/93
Bonner, Neal, 1967
Boone, The Rev. Leslie Adams, 1959
Boothe, Clyde, 1929
Boothe, Edna, 1929
Borchardt, Elizabeth, 1925
Bordeaux, Mrs. Fred, 1986
Boren, C.A., 1925
Borgers, Bill, 1979
Borglum, Lincoln, 1970
Borglum, Mary Ann Bellingsworth, 1970
Bork, Robert O., 1950
Boros, Julius, 1948
Boswell, Chris, 2007, 2008, 2009
Boswell, L.T., Jr., 1971
Bothwell Elizabeth, 1925
Botts, Dan, 1921, 1939
Botts, Geneva Tarver, 1909
Botts, Pearl, 1911, 1916, 1918
Botts, Sam, 1908-09, 1909, 1910, 1911, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1957
Bodenhamer, David, 1981
Boudin, Captain, 1970
Bouldin, Florence M., 1944
Bounds, Charles, 1950
Bowen, Andrew Johnson, 1919
Bowen, Birdie 1919
Bowen, C. E., 1921
Bowen, Frank, 1919
Bowen, Harry, 1919
Bowen, Jack, 1919
Bowen, Ray, 1919
Bowen, Ruth, 1919
Bowles, Chester, 1946
Bowman, Dennis, 1929
Bowman, Major Gen. George Shepard, 1973
Bowman, Velma, 1973
Bowman, Walter C., 1948
Boyd, Andy 1927
Boyd, H. P., 1920
Boyd, John Edward, 1927
Boyette, Barbara Davidson, 1922
Boyle "Smokey", 1967
Brackott, Mrs. R. Q., 1947
Brademus, John, 1929
Bradford, 1920
Bradford, Marie, 1951
Bradford, W. E.
Brady, J. B., 1916
Brady, J. B., 1951, 1972
Brady, Mrs. Lydia L., 1931
Bramlette, Ruth, 1926
Brandt, Corinna, 1918
Brandt, G.P., 1920
Brandt, Paul G., 1918
Branham, A. Brent, 1992/93
Bray, Lew, 1939, 1953
Brazil, Edward Norton, 1915
Breedlove, E. Clinton (Bud), 2009
Breedlove, E. Clinton, Sr., 1922, 1926, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1962, 1965, 1971
Brewer, Ivey, Pre-Harl. 1901
Brewer, Leonard G., Pre-Harl. 1901, 1900-09
Brewster, Billie Jean, 1941
Bricha, Mrs. Ralph, 1986
Briggs, E. H., 1926
Briggs, George M., 1913
Briggs, Mabel, 1926
Briggs, Mrs. Peggy Johnson, 1916
Brindley, B.H., 1925
Brindley, Miss, 1926
Briscoe, Dr. S. M., 1911
Briscoe, W. B. (Bill), 1946, 1951
Briscoe, W. P., 1932, 1937, 1938
Bron, A. Richard, 1948, 1955, 1982
Brons, Wendy, 2005
Brooks, A.L., 1909, 1911, 1919, 1925, 1926 (2)
Brooks, John H., 1913
Brooks, Judge R.E., 1910
Brooks, Mrs. A. L., 1921
Brower, Dr. Mary, 1993
Brown, Beatrice H., 1928
Brown, Charles H., 1919
Brown, Etta L. Shiver, 1919
Brown, Frank H., 1911, 1928
Brown, Frank R., 1910
Brown, Grover, 1908
Brown, Katherine Clarey, 1910
Brown, Lorimer, 1928
Brown, M. M., 1939
Brown, Mrs. Serena, 1908
Brown, Paul H., 1925
Brown, Rachael, 1910
Brown, Santiago, Pre-Harl. 1855
Brown, Tell, 1929
Brown, Tyre H., 1920-39, 1921, 1923, 1925, 1927, 1931
Browne, James G., Pre-Harl. 1855
Browning, Michael, 2002, 2004
Broyles, Harvey, 1962
Brule, R. J., 1949
Brumley, Allen, 1975
Brumley, Dianne, 1990
Brumley, W. C., 1929
Brunneman, Cadwell, 1921
Brunneman, Frank C., 1921, 1923, 1928
Brunneman, Mrs. F.C. (Verda Nelson), 1921
Brunneman, Nelson, 1921
Brunneman, Robert, 1921
Bryan, William Jennings, 1905
Bryson, Ella Rachael, 1921
Buck, J.P., 1933
Bugance William C. Jr., 1958
Bullard, A.T., 1910
Bullard, Beatrice, 1910
Bullard, Col. Robert Lee, 1905, 1913-17
Bullard, Mr.& Mrs. J. E., 1910
Bullard, Mrs. Billie Rodgers, 1927
Bundy, Arthur, 1929-38
Bundy, Gertrude, 1928-38
Burchard, Hoyte Hicks (H. H.), 1909, 1913
Burchard, Kate Dorothy, 1913, 1926
Burchard, Luallee Pendleton, 1913, 1917
Buck, Mrs. Pearl, 1933
Burdette, Grafton, 1920-39
Burdette, Bettie Jeanne, 1936
Burger, Elizabeth Hoelscher, 1926
Burger, F.E., 1926
Burger, James, 1926
Burger, William A., 1926
Burk, J.J., 1925, 1927, 1928, 1943
Burk, Janie, 1983
Burk, William Henry, 1924
Burk, Mrs. W. H., 1924
Burke, Jackie, Jr., 1948
Burke, Mrs. 1921
Burnett, C. E. (Dad), 1951
Burnette, Mrs.C.E. (Mary Lucille), 1951
Burns, Clyde, 1920
Burns, Ethelene, 1920
Burns, Frank, 1920, 2004
Burns, Nora Belle Hitt 1920
Burns, O.J., 1920
Burns, Oyer Robert, 1920
Burns, Ray, 1920
Burns, Sam W., 1951
Burns, Troy, 1920
Burton, Urban, 1920-39
Busa, Mrs. Jack, 1959
Busa, William B. (Bill), 1959
Bush, Gov. George, 1969
Bush, Mary Annise, 1926
Bush, Myrtle, 1919
Bush, Peggy, 1936
Bush, W. Edison, 1926
Buster, Mrs, Auro, 1908-09
Butler, 1926
Butt Howard E., 1920-39, 1936, 1951, 1967, 1971, 2003
Butt, Mrs. Howard E. (Mary Elizabeth Holdsworth), 1920-39 1922, 1928, 2003
Byrd, Richard, 1928
Caldwell, E.H., 1903
Caldwell, Kenneth R., 1960
Caldwell, Stewart S., 1910
Calhoun, Charlotte, 1971
Calhoun, Jack, 1960
Calkin Sisters, 1925
Callihan, C.M., 1959, 1960, 1961
Calloway, James Edwin , 1918
Calloway, James H. (Chub), 1918
Calloway, Veda, 1918
Calvin, Kenneth, 1928
Cameron, Captain Ewen, Pre-Harl. 1848
Campbell, Francis M., Pre-Harl. 1855
Campbell, Mrs. William Mitchell, 1925
Campbell, W.T., 1910
Campos, Roberto Jr., 1951
Campos, Roberto Sr., 1951
Canales, J. T. (Jose Tomas), 1916
Canales, Mrs. Ramiro G.(Gloria), 1975, 2006
Canas, Mrs. Frances, 1948
Cano, Genaro, Sr., 1931
Cantu, Alonzo, 1978, 2003
Cantu, Blas, 2004
Cantu, Sigfredo, 2007
Cantu, Simon Garcia, 1918
Cantu, Thomas, 1942-43
Cantu, Tomasa, 1906
Cantwell, Billie Neel, 1944
Cantwell, Douglas Steve, 1944
Cantwell, Earl, 1944
Cantwell, Mackalee Neel, 1944
Capp, Milton, 1930
Card, Garrison, 2008
Card, H. William (Bill), Jr., 1982, 1987, 1992/93, 1997, 1991, 2008
Card, J.A., 1909
Carden, Frank J., 1951
Carden, Mrs. C.H. (Mildred), 1917
Carey Monterey McCay, 1919
Carey, 1972
Carey, Adella, 1919
Carey, Isla Lew, 1919, 1936
Carey, James Edmond (Ed), 1919
Carey, James Edmond, Jr., 1919
Carey, Lou, 1919
Carey, Mrs. Norma Johnson, 1916
Carey, Mrs. W.E., 1919
Carey, Wiley Edgar, 1919
Carlisle, Dorothy, 1936
Carlisle, Mrs. Henry (Hazel), 1936, 1963
Carnes, Eva R., 1922
Carnes, S. P., 1904
Carr, Peyton T., 1900-09
Carrassco, Moises (Morris), 1960, 1971
Carroll, Rev. C.L., 1956
Carruth, Cecil, 1929, 1930, 1946, 1950-7
Carruth, Cecil, 1959
Carruth, Kay, 1978
Carruth, Paul, 1929, 1960
Carson, Thomas, 1903
Carter, 1955
Carter, Claude, 1920
Carter, Kathleen, 1936
Carter, Lemuel, 1900-09
Carter, Ray, 1964
Carter, Thomas W., 1900-09
Carvazos, Jose Narciso, Pre-Harl. 1855
Casarez, Mariano, 1915
Case, Miss Jennie, 1918, 1959
Case, Mrs. Mattie, 1918, 1959
Cash, Dr. Clarence M., 1919, 1920, 1949
Castellanos, Eloisa, 2003
Castillo, Daniel "Danny," 2002, 2008
Castillo, Dora I. Salazar, 1930
Castillo, Leonardo, 1917
Castillo, Romulo, 1928
Castillo, Sara, 1917
Castro, Consuela, 1924
Castro, Felicitas V., 1924
Castro, Jesus, 1924
Castro, Ramon, 1920
Caswell, Lucille, 1925
Caul Stacie, 1925
Caul, Eustacia (Sunshine) Hill, 1905, 1925, 1926, 1949, 1971
Caul, M.L., 1949
Caul, Mac Upton, 1925
Cavazos, J.D., 1965
Cavazos, Roy, 1965
Cazavas, Clara A., 1924
Cecora, F., 1955
Certain, The Rev. Robert G., 2007
Chaffin, H. G., 1968
Challes, John B. (J.B.), 1910, 1919, 1924, 1926, 1971
Challes, Mrs. J.B., 1919, 1925
Chamberlain, Bland H., 1907, 1917
Chamberlain, Constancia, 1917
Chamberlain, Guadelupe (Lupita), 1917
Chambers, Alice Souther, 1910
Chambers, C.H., 1920
Chambers, Fred, 1908, -09, 1911, 1912
Chambers, J.B., Jr., 1920, 1949,1952
Chambers, J.B., Sr. 1909, 1910, 1911, 1920, 1926 (2), 1927
Chapa, A.B., 1947, 1956
Chapa, Felix, 1931
Chapa, Wenselado, 1912
Chapek, A. B., 1913
Chapman, Judge H. L., 1929
Chase, Virginia, 1919
Chase, William T., 1919
Chateau, Rev. Isidor, 1912
Chatfield. Lt. William, 1903
Chaudoin, Barney, 1910, 1920
Chaudoin, Eva (Evie), 1910, 1921
Chaudoin, Joan, 1932
Chaudoin, L. Mackey (Mackie), 1910, 1920, 1925, 1931
Chaudoin, Lily Polly, 1910, 1913, 1918
Chaudoin, Morris, 1910, 1911, 1914, 1920
Chaudoin, Mrs. Morris, 1915, 1921
Chaudoin, Ophelia Harrington, 1911
Chaudoin, Robert L. (R.L.), 1910, 1913, 1970
Chaudoin, Roberta, 1918
Chaudoin, R.M., 1918
Chavez, Dr. Jesus Honorio, 1995
Chester, Sam H., 1920
Cherry, Alan, 2008
Chestnutt, Emma, 1904
Childress, Jake, 1936
Chilton, Carl S., 1924, 1929
Chilton, Carl, Jr., 1924
Chilton, Charles, 1924
Chilton, Jennie, 1924
Chilton, Mildred, 1924
Chilton, Pauline, 1924
Chiswell, Pauline Chilton, 1924
Choate, Jack, 1950
Christiansen, Helen, 1997
Clarey, John, 1910
Clark, Barney, 1948
Clark, Dr. Thomas A., 1971, 1975
Clark, Jane, 1933
Clark, Mr. & Mrs., 1930
Clark, Mrs. Anna, 1909
Clark, Mrs. Bob, 1972
Clark, Mrs. William, 1925
Clary, John, 1968
Clausen, Annelle Miller, 1918
Claypool, T.C., 1920
Cleary, John, 1997
Cleary, Mrs. Lily Chaudoin Liston, 1910, 1930
Cleary, Pearl, 1916
Cleckler, JoAnn, 1950, 1997
Cleckner, J. Glenn, 1987
Clements, Bishop, 1932
Clevenger, S. A., 1929
Clift, Charles Wert, Sr. (C.W.), 1909, 1910, 1951
Clift, Mrs. C.W. Goldie Wilson, 1909, 1951
Clore, Jean Phipps McKelvey, 1918, 1959
Clore, Walter L., 1918
Clover, Ernest Quentin, 1931
Clover, J.J., 1931
Clover, Sallie, 1931
Clowes, Shirley, 1996
Coakley, C.R. Jullian, 1960
Coakley, Mary E. 1960, 1962
Cocke, Bartlette, 1948
Cocke , (William) Hill, Jr., 1970
Cocke, (William) Hill, Sr., 1923, 1932, 1941, 1945, 1951, 1969, 1971 (2), 1953
Cocke, Jack (J.B), 1949, 1951
Cocke, Mrs. J. B., 1960, 1963
Coocke, J. J., 1900
Cocke, James "Jimmy" R., 1953, 1984
Cocke, Joan Chaudoin, 1932. 1970
Cocke, Joy, 1984
Cocke, Marian, 1954, 1975
Cocke, Mrs. Lucille, 1925
Cocozza, Orazio "Ray", 1941
Cole, Dr., 1910
Cole, Dwain, 1975
Cole, John H., Jr., 1924
Cole, Lillian A. 1924
Cole, Rev. Charles L. 1924
Cole, Wayne, 1924
Coleman, A. W. & M. B., 1926
Coleman, Dixie, 1960
Coleman, J.D. Stetson, 1965
Coleman, Mary Alice, 1944
Coleman, W. O., 1907
Collingsworth, Mrs. E.R., 1900-09
Combes, Drs. Joe and Fred, Pre-Harl. 1895
Coneway, Albert, 1963
Connell, Archie, Sr., 1922
Connell, Ethel, 1922
Connelly, Morrison Holmes, 1934, 1937, 1941, 1948-49, 1951, 1968
Connolly, James, 1967
Connolly, Sen. Tom, 1938, 1950
Contreras, Estevan, Pre-Harl. 1880, 1900-09
Contreras, Josefa, Pre-Harl. 1880
Converse, Henry, 1932
Cooley, Butch, 2006
Cooley, Col. Buck, 1974
Cooper, Mrs. Helen Jones, 1926
Cope, Richard Moore, 1948
Cope, Zora Belle Moore, 1948
Corbett, Dr. C. M., 1918
Corbett, Michael, 1918
Corn, Mrs. R. D., 1921
Corns, I. B., 1928
Corres, George, 1927
Cortez, 1928
Cortinas, Juan, Pre-Harl. 1875
Cortines, Adolfo Ruiz, 1953
Couch, Ed C., 1920
Coursey, J. I., 1970
Coursey, Mrs. J.I., 1930
Cowan, George, 1926
Cowart, Ida Mae, 1912
Cowart, Myrtle Leona, 1912
Cowart, O. A., 1912
Cowart, T. E., 1910
Cox, Lee O. 1946
Cox, Tommy, 1981
Craighead, 1904
Creed, 1920
Green, Buddy, 2007
Crenshaw, Mack, 1917
Crittendon, Clyde, 1935
Crockett, Brad, 1972
Crockett, Eleanor Reeves, 1927, 1936
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Before there were animals and before there were people, there were the land and the nameless river. Together they would shape the topography of the Harlingen area. The Lower Rio Grande Valley is a basin. The basin is a comparatively flat plain with a gentle slope to the northeast away from the river, which would be called the Rio Bravo, the Rio Grande del Norte, and eventually the Rio Grande, and towards what was to be designated the Gulf of Mexico. The political entities which were to come to be, Cameron County and most of Willacy County, lie in the basin subdivision called the Rio Grande Delta. "The area occupied by the delta, both ancient and recent, was once a broad valley, up to 400 feet deep, which was eroded from the coastal plain by the Rio Grande. It has since been filled with materials brought down by the river from inland areas."
The only natural drain in Cameron County is the Arroyo Colorado. Arroyo is the Spanish word meaning small stream. It flows along the only two exposed geologic formations. These are the Beaumont Formation of Pleistocene age and the overlying sediments of Holocene (Recent) age. Both geologic ages created material deposits related to the rising and falling of the sea during and after the last major advance of the continental glaciers in North America. All of the Holocene age deposits are less than 5,000 years old. South and east of Harlingen are the cutoff meanders, called resacas, of the Rio Grande. Natural depressions called potholes also abound. These are usually round.
The soils in the vicinity of Harlingen, 26° 12' north 97° 42' west and elevation 36 ' above sea level, have been classified by the Soil Conservation Service as Chromusterts and Pellusterts. These are level, very slowly permeable, high shrink-swell clayey soils. They fall into the Harlingen association, Harlingen-Montell saline association, and the Montell association.
The area has a variable climate because, for about seven months of the year, it is influenced by maritime conditions, but in the other five cooler months is subject to continental conditions. It is termed a modified marine, or coastal-type, subtropical and semiarid climate. It is characterized by long, hot summers and short, mild winters occasionally punctuated by severe freezes. At Harlingen, on the average, the last date when the temperature is 32° F or below in spring is February 4, and the first date in fall, December 12. The average length of the warm season in Harlingen is 341 days. While the mean average temperature is 74 degrees, extremes may range from 12° to 107°. The climate is tempered by the Gulf breezes which tend to stabilize the temperature.
The relative humidity decreases slightly from east to west as the distance from the Gulf increases. At noon, Central Standard Time, the east-to-west variation in relative humidity is estimated at 70 to 67 percent in January, 65 to 59 percent in April, 55 to 52 percent in July, and 63 to 60 percent in October. The prevailing winds are southeasterly to south-southeasterly for much of the year, but in the October through April period may be frequently interspersed with northerly winds wrought by the passage of Pacific and Canadian cold front systems.
The area is semi-arid in that the average annual rainfall totals are fairly low and the rain is not evenly distributed by month nor across localities. In an average year, free-water (lake) evaporation of 58 inches exceeds precipitation by 32 to 36 inches. Flood –producing rains may occur in any season. In April 1991 Harlingen officially recorded 17.15 inches in one six hour cloudburst and over 20 inches in unrecorded areas of the city. This may have been a once in 500 year event. The approximately 88 year rainfall record for Harlingen as compiled by NOAA is:
Harlingen Rainfall Data from May 1911 through April 2003
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Jan |
Feb |
Mar |
Apr |
May |
Jun |
Jul |
Aug |
Sep |
Oct |
Nov |
Dec |
Total |
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Harlingen |
Ttl |
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1911 |
1 |
2.27 |
0.41 |
2.16 |
0.00 |
1.70 |
0.00 |
0.66 |
1.91 |
9.11 |
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1912 |
2 |
2.38 |
1.78 |
0.38 |
2.98 |
0.05 |
8.45 |
0.00 |
0.60 |
1.76 |
6.47 |
0.85 |
1.72 |
27.42 |
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1913 |
3 |
1.53 |
1.21 |
1.72 |
0.72 |
2.14 |
5.41 |
0.61 |
0.56 |
8.43 |
2.06 |
0.18 |
1.34 |
25.91 |
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1914 |
4 |
0.10 |
1.37 |
1.84 |
1.72 |
9.63 |
0.50 |
0.00 |
2.79 |
2.12 |
3.25 |
4.62 |
2.07 |
30.01 |
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1915 |
5 |
3.98 |
0.16 |
3.91 |
1.85 |
1.08 |
1.39 |
1.19 |
3.79 |
1.16 |
1.19 |
0.23 |
0.78 |
20.71 |
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1916 |
6 |
0.29 |
0.00 |
0.08 |
0.40 |
2.51 |
0.97 |
7.21 |
10.34 |
2.71 |
1.96 |
2.22 |
0.76 |
29.45 |
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1917 |
7 |
0.00 |
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1918 |
8 |
0.00 |
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1919 |
9 |
2.68 |
5.84 |
0.13 |
5.40 |
4.22 |
0.13 |
1.45 |
19.85 |
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1920 |
10 |
1.24 |
0.42 |
0.34 |
0.03 |
1.89 |
3.09 |
0.00 |
0.35 |
2.09 |
1.35 |
1.32 |
0.00 |
12.12 |
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1921 |
11 |
0.25 |
0.62 |
2.66 |
1.93 |
2.79 |
2.06 |
2.95 |
0.11 |
4.53 |
2.57 |
1.02 |
0.07 |
21.56 |
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1922 |
12 |
1.05 |
0.43 |
0.94 |
0.74 |
2.00 |
7.16 |
2.27 |
1.94 |
13.18 |
0.49 |
5.17 |
0.12 |
35.49 |
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1923 |
13 |
0.13 |
12.10 |
1.23 |
0.46 |
0.33 |
0.93 |
1.03 |
0.33 |
12.72 |
7.84 |
2.85 |
2.79 |
42.74 |
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1924 |
14 |
4.58 |
0.47 |
0.35 |
0.00 |
6.07 |
1.63 |
0.96 |
0.46 |
4.75 |
2.42 |
0.00 |
2.24 |
23.93 |
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1925 |
15 |
0.73 |
0.00 |
3.08 |
1.04 |
1.71 |
3.69 |
0.00 |
2.16 |
9.56 |
1.53 |
0.74 |
4.12 |
28.36 |
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1926 |
16 |
2.39 |
0.06 |
3.12 |
0.57 |
1.53 |
5.77 |
3.84 |
1.61 |
3.13 |
1.18 |
1.47 |
1.68 |
26.35 |
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1927 |
17 |
1.11 |
0.83 |
0.12 |
0.22 |
2.02 |
4.88 |
3.75 |
0.04 |
3.12 |
1.43 |
0.45 |
1.27 |
19.24 |
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1928 |
18 |
0.65 |
1.75 |
0.14 |
1.47 |
5.00 |
1.14 |
0.18 |
0.00 |
10.39 |
0.50 |
4.80 |
0.80 |
26.82 |
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1929 |
19 |
0.12 |
0.35 |
1.05 |
1.30 |
6.26 |
0.30 |
2.05 |
2.92 |
3.80 |
3.05 |
4.00 |
0.90 |
26.10 |
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1930 |
20 |
0.55 |
0.45 |
0.86 |
1.10 |
4.70 |
2.95 |
2.40 |
0.00 |
5.65 |
9.04 |
5.15 |
0.00 |
32.85 |
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1931 |
21 |
5.22 |
1.00 |
0.00 |
0.60 |
4.22 |
5.10 |
4.10 |
2.40 |
1.56 |
0.65 |
1.25 |
0.82 |
26.92 |
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1932 |
22 |
0.73 |
1.32 |
1.20 |
3.55 |
1.64 |
2.75 |
1.15 |
3.25 |
7.85 |
3.40 |
2.02 |
0.48 |
29.34 |
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1933 |
23 |
1.26 |
0.07 |
0.28 |
0.79 |
3.00 |
0.45 |
6.41 |
4.94 |
18.25 |
4.85 |
1.45 |
0.00 |
41.75 |
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1934 |
24 |
3.61 |
0.45 |
1.20 |
0.45 |
1.20 |
0.40 |
4.35 |
2.00 |
6.67 |
0.02 |
1.20 |
1.75 |
23.30 |
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1935 |
25 |
0.42 |
1.01 |
0.87 |
4.46 |
8.60 |
7.50 |
2.57 |
0.82 |
6.07 |
1.40 |
0.17 |
4.03 |
37.92 |
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1936 |
26 |
0.32 |
1.08 |
0.07 |
1.90 |
3.85 |
0.30 |
3.06 |
7.45 |
8.72 |
0.31 |
0.30 |
2.15 |
29.51 |
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1937 |
27 |
1.85 |
1.11 |
0.42 |
0.50 |
4.42 |
0.00 |
4.08 |
1.00 |
1.70 |
3.35 |
1.75 |
7.59 |
27.77 |
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1938 |
28 |
1.25 |
0.30 |
3.45 |
1.75 |
2.02 |
1.38 |
0.01 |
6.92 |
1.17 |
0.02 |
1.62 |
1.86 |
21.75 |
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1939 |
29 |
1.82 |
0.08 |
0.63 |
1.34 |
3.92 |
7.83 |
0.35 |
0.89 |
1.74 |
0.11 |
0.03 |
0.20 |
18.94 |
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1940 |
30 |
0.09 |
0.45 |
4.13 |
0.03 |
5.90 |
3.78 |
0.70 |
0.60 |
1.35 |
2.57 |
1.91 |
9.11 |
30.62 |
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1941 |
31 |
9.17 |
1.01 |
3.92 |
5.75 |
6.95 |
4.90 |
1.00 |
2.05 |
3.10 |
5.37 |
0.20 |
2.57 |
45.99 |
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1942 |
32 |
1.03 |
1.15 |
0.05 |
0.10 |
2.40 |
6.00 |
2.82 |
0.80 |
0.62 |
1.10 |
0.75 |
0.25 |
17.07 |
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1943 |
33 |
1.82 |
0.50 |
0.70 |
0.00 |
7.47 |
0.90 |
0.00 |
0.51 |
4.88 |
1.60 |
1.37 |
2.45 |
22.20 |
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1944 |
34 |
0.74 |
0.40 |
1.73 |
0.00 |
5.25 |
1.30 |
4.30 |
7.20 |
6.43 |
2.85 |
1.60 |
1.80 |
33.60 |
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1945 |
35 |
1.30 |
2.92 |
0.00 |
1.65 |
0.40 |
0.90 |
3.50 |
8.68 |
0.90 |
3.05 |
0.30 |
0.20 |
23.80 |
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1946 |
36 |
1.85 |
1.30 |
0.20 |
3.30 |
0.60 |
3.60 |
0.02 |
1.17 |
8.60 |
6.03 |
0.27 |
0.39 |
27.33 |
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1947 |
37 |
0.56 |
0.82 |
0.40 |
2.19 |
2.75 |
1.66 |
0.49 |
7.27 |
0.46 |
0.65 |
2.42 |
0.64 |
20.31 |
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1948 |
38 |
1.14 |
2.05 |
0.49 |
0.15 |
5.32 |
0.20 |
1.98 |
4.57 |
8.06 |
2.24 |
0.54 |
0.01 |
26.75 |
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1949 |
39 |
0.73 |
2.85 |
1.24 |
0.89 |
0.81 |
1.02 |
5.00 |
0.96 |
0.18 |
1.30 |
14.98 |
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1950 |
40 |
0.33 |
0.17 |
2.12 |
0.91 |
3.73 |
4.08 |
0.35 |
1.18 |
1.69 |
3.53 |
1.78 |
0.00 |
19.87 |
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1951 |
41 |
0.12 |
1.59 |
0.28 |
2.04 |
0.89 |
3.74 |
2.52 |
6.08 |
2.66 |
0.45 |
0.21 |
20.58 |
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1952 |
42 |
0.54 |
0.20 |
0.34 |
0.82 |
3.97 |
3.01 |
0.72 |
0.34 |
4.30 |
0.00 |
3.41 |
0.57 |
18.22 |
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1953 |
43 |
0.38 |
0.94 |
0.47 |
0.51 |
0.10 |
0.16 |
0.92 |
11.28 |
0.57 |
2.62 |
0.44 |
1.22 |
19.61 |
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1954 |
44 |
0.32 |
0.01 |
0.38 |
4.18 |
0.46 |
2.43 |
0.18 |
3.41 |
1.21 |
6.77 |
1.38 |
0.09 |
20.82 |
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1955 |
45 |
0.75 |
0.28 |
0.03 |
0.36 |
0.97 |
0.00 |
5.70 |
2.01 |
12.30 |
2.70 |
1.85 |
0.25 |
27.20 |
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1956 |
46 |
0.01 |
1.17 |
1.00 |
2.43 |
0.26 |
1.98 |
0.64 |
0.30 |
1.66 |
1.55 |
0.32 |
0.07 |
11.39 |
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1957 |
47 |
0.17 |
2.42 |
2.62 |
4.34 |
2.32 |
6.67 |
0.07 |
0.34 |
0.43 |
0.30 |
2.95 |
0.33 |
22.96 |
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1958 |
48 |
5.12 |
7.13 |
0.74 |
0.08 |
2.53 |
2.34 |
1.45 |
0.00 |
8.05 |
10.73 |
1.73 |
1.66 |
41.56 |
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1959 |
49 |
1.53 |
2.39 |
0.32 |
1.76 |
5.38 |
4.46 |
0.64 |
1.14 |
0.09 |
5.33 |
2.73 |
0.34 |
26.11 |
|
|
1960 |
50 |
0.22 |
1.00 |
1.07 |
2.28 |
1.34 |
1.76 |
0.42 |
6.28 |
7.44 |
3.58 |
1.14 |
2.83 |
29.36 |
|
|
1961 |
51 |
1.38 |
0.25 |
0.00 |
2.49 |
0.42 |
1.79 |
2.69 |
4.52 |
8.30 |
0.90 |
1.61 |
0.71 |
25.06 |
|
|
1962 |
52 |
0.34 |
0.13 |
1.30 |
0.85 |
0.69 |
2.98 |
0.00 |
0.88 |
2.28 |
1.35 |
1.95 |
1.64 |
14.39 |
|
|
1963 |
53 |
0.20 |
0.44 |
0.05 |
0.39 |
6.07 |
1.88 |
1.92 |
2.75 |
4.29 |
3.75 |
4.31 |
2.55 |
28.60 |
|
|
1964 |
54 |
0.17 |
1.51 |
0.08 |
0.75 |
2.65 |
2.96 |
0.42 |
0.27 |
2.76 |
0.48 |
0.65 |
1.69 |
14.39 |
|
|
1965 |
55 |
0.32 |
2.70 |
0.68 |
0.31 |
1.11 |
0.93 |
0.20 |
2.73 |
12.90 |
1.16 |
3.76 |
4.26 |
31.06 |
|
|
1966 |
56 |
3.52 |
0.92 |
0.80 |
3.51 |
7.99 |
5.15 |
1.48 |
3.00 |
2.56 |
4.19 |
0.09 |
0.35 |
33.56 |
|
|
1967 |
57 |
1.43 |
1.03 |
1.12 |
0.06 |
1.88 |
0.86 |
0.56 |
5.65 |
14.36 |
5.24 |
3.34 |
3.65 |
39.18 |
|
|
1968 |
58 |
3.79 |
1.57 |
0.93 |
0.77 |
4.83 |
2.49 |
2.74 |
2.71 |
4.98 |
1.87 |
0.49 |
0.15 |
27.32 |
|
|
1969 |
59 |
0.39 |
2.09 |
0.84 |
0.13 |
4.06 |
0.62 |
0.19 |
3.73 |
5.84 |
0.44 |
1.04 |
0.30 |
19.67 |
|
|
1970 |
60 |
3.82 |
0.87 |
0.72 |
1.60 |
4.40 |
3.85 |
1.96 |
1.32 |
7.84 |
3.56 |
0.32 |
0.31 |
30.57 |
|
|
1971 |
61 |
0.80 |
1.21 |
0.08 |
0.93 |
0.39 |
2.33 |
1.96 |
3.20 |
8.35 |
2.73 |
0.49 |
1.66 |
24.13 |
|
|
1972 |
62 |
0.46 |
1.14 |
3.17 |
1.04 |
2.61 |
4.73 |
2.85 |
0.58 |
4.49 |
0.51 |
1.27 |
0.37 |
23.22 |
|
|
1973 |
63 |
4.56 |
7.28 |
0.31 |
0.71 |
0.45 |
7.51 |
1.64 |
8.96 |
4.83 |
4.40 |
1.68 |
0.17 |
42.50 |
|
|
1974 |
64 |
1.21 |
0.02 |
0.24 |
1.02 |
1.10 |
1.92 |
1.24 |
4.21 |
10.46 |
3.71 |
0.42 |
0.91 |
26.46 |
|
|
1975 |
65 |
1.55 |
0.58 |
0.12 |
0.02 |
1.98 |
2.27 |
8.64 |
4.44 |
8.60 |
1.04 |
0.27 |
1.61 |
31.12 |
|
|
1976 |
66 |
0.30 |
0.04 |
0.20 |
9.52 |
1.87 |
2.15 |
8.87 |
5.55 |
3.55 |
7.11 |
3.53 |
1.95 |
44.64 |
|
|
1977 |
67 |
1.78 |
1.65 |
0.17 |
3.35 |
1.24 |
7.27 |
1.88 |
0.42 |
2.78 |
2.20 |
2.19 |
0.36 |
25.29 |
|
|
1978 |
68 |
3.54 |
1.40 |
0.02 |
1.65 |
0.02 |
2.37 |
1.54 |
2.04 |
8.72 |
2.75 |
0.59 |
2.17 |
26.81 |
|
|
1979 |
69 |
1.35 |
1.27 |
0.09 |
5.99 |
1.50 |
4.37 |
0.80 |
4.64 |
4.44 |
2.71 |
0.46 |
2.60 |
30.22 |
|
|
1980 |
70 |
1.21 |
1.45 |
0.40 |
0.02 |
3.14 |
0.10 |
0.69 |
8.39 |
1.38 |
1.85 |
2.38 |
0.60 |
21.61 |
|
|
1981 |
71 |
3.66 |
0.60 |
3.23 |
1.75 |
6.16 |
1.29 |
2.27 |
2.19 |
2.13 |
4.75 |
0.73 |
0.39 |
29.15 |
|
|
1982 |
72 |
0.05 |
9.50 |
0.32 |
0.71 |
11.96 |
0.00 |
0.42 |
1.85 |
0.80 |
1.59 |
1.07 |
3.18 |
31.45 |
|
|
1983 |
73 |
0.87 |
4.13 |
2.60 |
0.00 |
4.03 |
1.49 |
7.05 |
1.22 |
6.92 |
2.97 |
1.09 |
1.52 |
33.89 |
|
|
1984 |
74 |
3.16 |
1.22 |
0.05 |
0.05 |
2.96 |
0.71 |
1.56 |
0.98 |
17.70 |
1.05 |
0.02 |
2.00 |
31.46 |
|
|
1985 |
75 |
1.38 |
1.27 |
1.15 |
2.06 |
3.64 |
4.56 |
0.81 |
0.76 |
5.32 |
2.34 |
0.29 |
0.72 |
24.30 |
|
|
1986 |
76 |
0.00 |
1.26 |
0.38 |
0.48 |
5.88 |
3.99 |
0.41 |
2.56 |
4.34 |
2.63 |
3.73 |
4.33 |
29.99 |
|
|
1987 |
77 |
3.15 |
2.05 |
0.98 |
1.61 |
3.47 |
6.28 |
2.50 |
0.22 |
4.99 |
0.54 |
2.83 |
0.15 |
28.77 |
|
|
1988 |
78 |
3.49 |
2.08 |
3.95 |
0.12 |
0.65 |
1.64 |
0.75 |
2.57 |
5.41 |
1.33 |
0.73 |
0.17 |
22.89 |
|
|
1989 |
79 |
1.01 |
0.38 |
0.05 |
3.45 |
0.80 |
3.79 |
2.15 |
4.35 |
2.96 |
0.15 |
0.62 |
2.10 |
21.81 |
|
|
1990 |
80 |
0.53 |
0.96 |
1.80 |
2.48 |
1.81 |
1.07 |
0.88 |
1.13 |
2.32 |
1.75 |
0.26 |
0.09 |
15.08 |
|
|
1991 |
81 |
0.47 |
3.11 |
0.27 |
17.15 |
1.07 |
1.58 |
5.52 |
0.76 |
0.83 |
2.61 |
33.37 |
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|
1992 |
82 |
3.37 |
1.96 |
0.24 |
5.74 |
6.57 |
1.50 |
0.55 |
1.70 |
3.87 |
1.14 |
3.07 |
1.59 |
31.30 |
|
|
1993 |
83 |
0.62 |
2.08 |
2.15 |
0.33 |
4.69 |
5.78 |
0.11 |
0.21 |
4.56 |
2.20 |
1.70 |
1.63 |
26.06 |
|
|
1994 |
84 |
3.42 |
0.35 |
1.13 |
1.95 |
3.15 |
0.30 |
2.58 |
4.02 |
0.64 |
4.01 |
21.55 |
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|
1995 |
85 |
0.70 |
0.05 |
1.71 |
0.76 |
2.04 |
2.65 |
0.36 |
8.44 |
2.21 |
4.82 |
2.47 |
2.45 |
28.66 |
|
|
1996 |
86 |
0.00 |
0.20 |
0.64 |
1.11 |
0.36 |
2.27 |
0.08 |
3.90 |
2.73 |
6.10 |
0.58 |
0.47 |
18.44 |
|
|
1997 |
87 |
0.60 |
0.40 |
5.24 |
4.69 |
2.84 |
0.90 |
T |
0.51 |
4.13 |
9.09 |
1.37 |
0.80 |
30.57 |
|
|
1998 |
88 |
0.01 |
4.57 |
0.79 |
0.05 |
0.00 |
0.02 |
1.08 |
1.25 |
11.39 |
7.16 |
5.20 |
0.32 |
31.84 |
|
|
1999 |
89 |
0.13 |
2.37 |
3.41 |
0.68 |
2.99 |
0.66 |
3.67 |
3.69 |
3.95 |
0.99 |
0.22 |
0.49 |
23.25 |
|
|
2000 |
90 |
1.40 |
0.35 |
2.24 |
1.61 |
1.77 |
2.93 |
T |
3.49 |
0.72 |
4.38 |
0.31 |
0.90 |
20.10 |
|
|
2001 |
91 |
0.47 |
2.30 |
0.62 |
2.85 |
0.52 |
1.76 |
0.37 |
3.90 |
5.74 |
0.48 |
2.01 |
0.92 |
21.94 |
|
|
2002 |
92 |
0.06 |
1.02 |
0.25 |
0.65 |
1.56 |
1.21 |
0.00 |
0.24 |
6.71 |
8.67 |
4.86 |
3.50 |
28.73 |
|
|
2003 |
93 |
1.30 |
0.79 |
2.29 |
0.93 |
0.17 |
1.47 |
3.70 |
1.31 |
8.07 |
11.09 |
1.48 |
0.18 |
32.78 |
|
|
2004 |
94 |
1.10 |
3.68 |
3.83 |
8.61 |
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Years |
89 |
89 |
88 |
89 |
89 |
90 |
89 |
91 |
90 |
91 |
91 |
91 |
94 |
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|
Average |
1.43 |
1.45 |
1.15 |
1.71 |
2.93 |
2.65 |
1.85 |
2.64 |
5.21 |
2.88 |
1.54 |
1.44 |
25.75 |
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The lower Texas coast was frequently visited by hurricanes and tropical storms in the late 1800s throughout the1900s. Those recorded by NOAA for the Valley are:
Date of Storm Remarks (hurricanes, except as noted)
9/16/1877 entire coast
8/13/1880 Matamoros struck
9/18/1885 lower coast
9/22/1886 moved inland near Brownsville
9/21/1887 made landfall near Brownsville
8/29/1895 moved inland near Brownsville
6/30/1909 tropical storm between Brownsville and Corpus Christi
8/27/1909 landfall south of Brownsville
8/31/1910 landfall south of Brownsville
9/14/1910 between Brownsville and Corpus Christi
10/16/1912 between Brownsville and Corpus Christi
6/27/1913 between Brownsville and Corpus Christi
9/6/1925 tropical storm moved inland near Brownsville
8/4/1933 hurricane moved inland near Brownsville
9/4/1933 hurricane moved inland near Brownsville
8/27/1934 hurricane passed near entire Texas coast
9/13/1936 tropical storm moved inland near Brownsville
9/27/1943 hurricane passed near lower Texas coast
8/1/1947 tropical storm moved inland near Brownsville
6/25/1954 Hurricane Alice made landfall south of Brownsville and
moved up the Rio Grande
6/15/1958 Tropical Storm Alma made landfall south of Brownsville
and moved up the Rio Grande
9/20/1967 Hurricane Beulah moved inland between Brownsville
and the mouth of the Rio Grande
9/14/1971 Hurricane Edith passed near entire Texas coast
9/2/1977 Hurricane Anita made landfall south of Brownsville
8/10/1980 Hurricane Allen was identified as "The Hurricane of the
Century." Fortunately, it weakened prior to entering
Texas just north of Brownsville
The Harlingen area retains only remnants of its native vegetation. This once consisted of numerous xerophytic plants in a jungle-like forest of trees such as elm, ebony, hackberry, ash, anaqua, tepeguaje, guayacon, huisache, retama, and possibly a few sabal palms, interspersed with a mesquite-cactus association. The thick undergrowth consisted of bushes and climbing vines. In some locations these may have thinned out to allow savannahs of native grasses. Eventually clearing and heavy grazing resulted in a general change to thorny shrubs and low trees on introduced grass pastures. In the urban area introduced tree species and ornamentals relegated many of the native plants to wildlife refuges and the undeveloped banks of the Arroyo Colorado.
The remaining native wildlife has also been limited to the latter locations. These include opossum, nine-banded armadillo, raccoon, coyote, ocelot, bobcat, black-tailed jackrabbit, eastern cottontail, Mexican ground squirrel, white-footed mouse, hispid cotton rat, Mexican spiny pocket rat, southern plains wood rat, Ord's kangaroo rat, frogs, tortoises, snakes, and possibly jaguarundi. The javelina, white-tailed deer, bridled weasel, feral pigs, wild mustangs, wild turkeys, quail, blue pigeon, occasional mountain lion, and such are long gone from the mostly urbanized Harlingen area.
Fish in the silt-laden and heavily polluted stream in the Arroyo Colorado are limited. Catfish are to be found and drum are too when cold Laguna Madre waters drive them inland. The canals have gar and tilapia.
What remains unusual and interesting to the area are the well over 400 species of bird life. The region lies in flyways from the northern states and from Mexico to the south. Species of special interest with peripheral occurrence in Texas include the least grebe, masked duck, jacana, white-tailed hawk, black hawk, chachalaca, red-billed pigeon, white-tipped dove, groove-billed ani, kiskadee flycatcher, tropical kingbird, ferruginous owl, buff-bellied hummingbird, beardless flycatcher, Lichtenstein's oriole, white-collared seedeater, Botteri's sparrow, aplomado falcon, and others. Flocks of noisy Mexican parrots have made the arroyo their habitat.
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Pre-Harlingen History Prior to the Twentieth Century
When the Spaniards of New Spain (Mexico) commence exploring to the north along the coast in the early 1500s they find that the area of what was to become the South Texas region is sparsely populated by various Indian groups. These include the Atastagonie (probably the same as the Taztasagonie), Cacalote, Garza, Pacuache (also given name variants such as Campacua, Paachiqui, Pacao, and Patzau), Pajarito (also called the Pacaruja), Pinanaca (Pimanco, Pinaca, Piranca), Tecahuiste, and Tepachuache. These peoples were all part of the Coahuitecan language group that may have encompassed up to 200 tribes.
The notorious Karankawa, who constituted a separate language group, did not inhabit the Valley area. In the mid 1840s, remnants of the Karankawa tribe moved from the Corpus Christi area into Tamaulipas, Mexico. Besieged by Mexico authorities after being accused of plundering Reynosa, they moved into Texas in 1850 and settled near Rio Grande City. In 1858 a Texas force led by Juan Nepomuceno Cortina annihilates the small remaining band of Karankawas.
In the late 1800s the area which was to become Harlingen was bounded on its south and east sides by the Spanish land grant called Concepcion de Carricitos awarded (1781) to Eugenio and Bartolome Fernandez. This boundary was delineated by the Arroyo Colorado.
To its north lay the 12 league Ojo de Agua tract, which had once been a part of the land grant parcel, Las Mestenas, Pititas, y la Abra owned by Vincente Ynohosa (Hinojosa), but assigned by him later to Rosa Maria Hinojosa de Ballí in payment for her survey expenditures. To the west lay her La Feria Grant with lands already being assigned to various descendents and relatives.
At the time of Texas independence in 1836 what was to become the Harlingen area has not been awarded to anyone either as a Spanish or Mexican land grant. It is claimed by the Republic of Texas as unappropriated public domain. In 1839 the Texas Congress fulfills a suggestion by President Mirabeau B. Lamar and sets aside land from the public domain for the support of the public schools. Three leagues are awarded each county and the next year an additional league is added.
The unclaimed area described above encompassed about 64.35 square miles or 9.3 leagues. A league is 4,428 acres or about 6.9 square miles. Since the remainder of Cameron County was previously Spanish and Mexico land grant areas, the school lands awarded to the county were restricted to this tract. The geographic coordinates for Harlingen are: 26° 12' north and 97° 42' west.
12/29/1845 U.S. President James Polk signs legislation making Texas the 28th state in the union.
3/19/1846 The first confrontation of what is to become the Mexican War occurs at the Paso Real. As described by the Stambaughs:
Taylor's forces camped three miles from the Arroyo Colorado, east of Harlingen. Mexican ranchers stationed on the south side warned an American reconnaissance officer that crossing would be considered a hostile act. Bugles were blown at several points south of the Arroyo Colorado to give invaders the impression that there was a sizeable force to oppose them. As a precautionary measure General Taylor placed his artillery in position along the north bank. Shortly thereafter he proceeded south to the Rio Grande.
Captain W.S. Henry in his 1847 book describes the Arroyo Colorado at this time as a "beautiful stream, about 100 yards broad with bluff banks some 20 feet high, and bordered for a depth of two or three miles on each side with a dense growth of mesquite and prickly-pear."
4/25/1846 The war between the United States and Mexico is ignited over disputed claims to Texas boundaries. One was Mexico's claim to its border at the Nueces River and the U.S.'s claim to the boundary of Texas at the Rio Grande.
5/46 The Mexican War is declared. Thirteen thousand Americans will die in it due to battles or disease.
2/12/1848 3,308 square miles are carved out of Nueces County to form Cameron County named after Captain Ewen Cameron of the failed Texian Expedition against Mier, Mexico.
2/20/49 The Cameron County Court issues a license to Hamlet Ferguson for a ferry at Taylor's Crossing.
5/2/51 F.W. Latham establishes a ferry at the Upper Crossing, now Rio Hondo, and in its short existence is allowed by the Court to charge the same rates as other ferries.
1/24/1852 Cameron County loses territory as Hidalgo County is formed from western portions of it.
1850-1900 The area is the border of two climate zones i.e. the dry tropical and subtropical steppe to the south and the humid meso-thermal subtropical zone to the north. Generally then it is characterized by hot summers and mild winters with a 25-40 % departure from normal in its variability of annual rainfall. The climax vegetation is composed of grass and other herbaceous plants. Broadleaf deciduous and shrubforms grow singly or in groups or patches. When over a period of decades in the last half of the 19th Century, the area was overgrazed by flocks of sheep and herds of goats then the natural grasslands were invaded by xerophytic trees and shrubs. Coupled with periodic drought, soon large areas were overrun by heretofore rare and foreign species. This is when cattle ranching came to dominate the local scene.
On 9/27/55 the Court issues a license for the Taylor's Crossing site to Gomez and Barclay. It is then Morgan Barclay to whom licenses are issued by the Court over a number of years. Records note 1/16/60; 2/18/63 when his temporary "license about to expire and the court being of the opinion that it would promote the public convenience greatly to have said ferry continued."… charge same rates as 22 November 1861 upon his paying sum of $25 and complying with the law regulating and governing ferries; Dec.1865-1879 at the Paso Real or Taylor's Crossing…upon posting of a $1000 bond with the presiding judge and license to be fixed at $5.00 per annum; 2/13/77, Court raises "license to $25 in currency per annum for privilege of running ferry at Taylor's Crossing"; 11/28/70; 11/18/70; 1/6/75; 2/1/77; 1879; and 5/10/80. On 1/19/81 James G. Browne is issued a license for Paso Real, and the following year Morgan Barclay's widow, Benigna Flores de Barclay, is issued one on 2/13/82. Records indicate that licenses were issued to her 1/8/83, 2/11/84, 2/13/89, 2/11/91,1892, and then in her now married name, Mrs Benigna Flores de Hodges 2/17/93, 1894, 1895-1899, and 1905. James G. Browne is issued licenses for the same location 1886, 2/1/91, 1892, 2/17/93 and 1894. It is Mr. Browne who operates a stage line carrying mail back and forth to Corpus Christi. Locked mail pouches are delivered to the stage coach drivers. He is one in a succession of stage operators. In 1854 Francis M. Campbell had stages on call to go to Corpus Christi. It was after the Civil War that Thomas Baynon, Richard King's general foreman, operated a stage line between Brownsville and Collins. Finally, in 1899 it is Santiago A. Brown who inaugurates a stage coach service and begins to carry U.S. Mail. The Brownsville to Corpus Christi trip by stage is a six day one. All must transit the Paso Real.
It is prior to 1870 that the Court issues a license to Justo Treviño to operate a ferry at El Palmetal. The community is just south of the Arroyo Colorado in what is now Treasure Hills. His crossing served those coming from the west and northwest enroute to Brownsville. There is record of the license being renewed 11/28/70.
In a location that was once part of the sprawling Armendaiz Ranch, the Paso Real stagecoach stop on the north bank of the Arroyo Colorado is built to service the Alice Stage Coach Line or perhaps an earlier predecessor said to call it the third stop on a route from San Antonio to Brownsville via Banquette. Some say it was built in 1887 while others put it as early as 1860. It is adjacent to the ferry crossing, which may have been started as early as 1854 by a Senior Gomez. The inn ceases functioning in 1904 when the railroad line from Robstown to the Valley is completed. Prior to the railroad it was the receiving point for mail destined for what will be Harlingen, much of it addressed to, or in care of, Lon C. Hill. For a time Jesus Lopez has a store at Paso Real before moving on to Brownsville. In 1975 salvageable parts of its structure are moved to the Rio Grande Valley Museum complex in Harlingen for restoration and subsequent display. According to S.P. Rodriguez, once an educator in Harlingen, his father owned and operated the ferry for a time. It was hand–powered along a cable tether and was said to be fifty-five feet long and thirteen feet wide. The fare was eight cents for a stage or wagon with four horses or mules and four cents for smaller wagons and carts. [For more detailed information on the Paso Real see "The Stage Line and the Paso Real" link.]
2/1/1861 Texas secedes from the Federal Union.
5/13/1865 Last engagement of the Civil War is fought at the Battle of Palmito Ranch east of Brownsville. This occurs a month after Lee's surrender at Appomattox. Confederate forces under Rip Ford are victorious.
3/30/1870 The U.S. Congress readmits Texas into the Union, but reconstruction continues for the state for another four years.
1870 In this year the Lower Rio Grande Valley lies in an area termed "The Frontier of the Cattlemen", that is, it contains less than 100 persons per 1,000 square miles.
1874 In this year Donna Benigna Hodges' first husband, Morgan Barclay buys first of two tracts from the Matamoros heirs of Jose Narciso Carvazos. He is licensed by Cameron County Commissioners to operate the ferry at Paso Real. When her second husband, Mr. Hodges, dies she maintains the ferry until the coming of the railroad ends stagecoach travel. Years later, bed-ridden in her home above the Paso Real crossing she appeals to Santos Lozano to care for her after two ranch hands are killed by bandits. The Lozanos take her to Harlingen and care for her. Having no heirs she wills her ranch to Micaela Lozano. Thus the mercantile Lozano family also becomes ranchers.
1875(Spring) L.H. McNelly and the Special Force of Rangers "brings a measure of security to several South Texas counties", primarily by limiting the brigand activities of Juan Cortinas, who is hero or villain or both depending upon the historian. The slaying of twelve cattle thieves by McNelly's men on the Palo Alto Prairie is a prime episode in restoring order as is a separate incursion into Mexico to recover stolen cattle.
1871 The Military Telegraph following the river from Brownsville to the Ringgold Barracks in Rio Grande City is completed. This gives the road its name, not anything to do with Zachary Taylor and his troop movements.
1873 The winter of this year is severe without precedent and results in the death of thousand of cattle. To later add to local woes, the year 1794 experiences an extreme drought.
1/20/1879 The Georgetown Railroad Company, which had earlier been awarded land in the area by the state as an incentive to build a rail line, sells Certificate No. 128 of the General Land Office of the State of Texas to Antonio Guerrero for $53. This is Survey No. 22 of 640 acres in Cameron County. On 4/2/1898 James H. Dishman will purchase it for $1.50 an acre.
3/13/1879 Cameron County makes application for survey of school lands, namely to locate 2 ½ leagues belonging to the county. Adolphus Glaevecke, Clerk of Cameron County, attests to the Commission order.
9/29/1879 W.C. Walsh, Commissioner of the General Land Office issues a Land Script to Cameron County to take possession of Survey 36 with its 1,107 acres or quarter league. On 9/12/85 Governor John Ireland issues a letter patent to the county for this same parcel.
By 1880 Cameron County has a population of 14, 959, which grows very slowly. In 1887 it has risen to 17,001.
In 1880 Francisco Saldaña filed a patent on Survey 45 and officially was granted the land after occupation and improvements in 1886. Various members of the Saldaña family likely owned a total of about 510 acres south of survey 27. They called it La Providencia Ranch. Plats of about 170 acres each were numbers 45 (F. Saldaña), 46 (E. Contreras), and 47 (S. Saldaña). The "F" may have been Francisco, who was to marry Anselma Sanchez and upon her death Josefa Abrego. The "S" was his son Secundino from his first marriage. E. Contreras was Estevan (also spelled Esteban) Contreras, who had married Librada Saldaña. Their daughter Josefa, who was baptized in the Presbyterian Mexican Church, Brownsville on 3/7/86, lived on the ranch until 1896-98. Another daughter was to be Anita Saldaña Contreras de Rosales. Herlinda Saldaña of the ranch family was to marry Joaquin S. Sanchez, have a son Jose, and live at 831 Curtis Street, Harlingen. Paulo Saldaña, Sr. and Jr. were other family members.
9/12/1885 Richard King receives, as assignee of the Corpus Christi, San Diego and Rio Grande Narrow Gauge Railroad Company, land patents, from John Ireland, Governor of the State of Texas, for Survey 287 640 acres, Survey 289 640 acres, Survey 299 320 acres, Survey 305 68 acres, and Survey 303 60 acres. On 2/17/1887 he similarly receives a patent for Survey 291 640 acres. All are north of, and many abut, the Arroyo Colorado. The parcels interspersed with other owners appear to follow the granting by the state to railroad companies of alternating parcels of land in order to encourage the railroads to lay the infrastructure and reward them with saleable land.
1893 James Henry Dishman, a native of Cherokee County, East Texas (and later Kaufman County), purchases undeveloped school land in what will later become the Combes area. He builds a homestead and by 1895 has established a working ranch. He gradually increases his area holdings to four square miles or more. Wounded by a cattle rustler in 1897, Dishman is aided in his recovery by brothers Doctors Fred and Joe Combes of Brownsville. In 1904 he donates land for a railroad right-of-way. In 1924 he donates five acres to the Combes Community as a site for a Baptist church and cemetery. In 1932 he gifts money and a site for the construction of an elementary school. It is named in his honor when completed in 1950.
He was born 2/22/1858 and received his education at public schools and the Masonic Institute. His forefathers had migrated from England to Virginia before the Revolutionary War. He served on numerous committees in the Great War and for 35 years was a Democratic Party committeeman along with serving as deputy sheriff as needed. Never having married, he dies 7/30/34. This first white settler of the Harlingen area is buried in the Harlingen City Cemetery along side his mother.
1895 Christian Balduf (also spelled Baldauf), a German, operates a small store and post office at the Paso Real.
5/22/95 Cotton boll weevil discovered in Lower Rio Grande Valley.
6/24/95 Sheriff E. C. Forto receives multiple wounds from outlaws near La Tasa Ranch. This is located on the south side of the Arroyo Colorado where some day the F Street Bridge will cross it.
It is this year that Mrs. Georgiana M. Dishman arrives with her seven year old granddaughter, Lena Templeton, and her bother Edwin Templeton. Accompanying them from Corpus Christi are Mrs. Dishman's married daughter Isabel and her husband Edwin Madeley, and their four children, Edwin, Ewing, Neil Shaw, and Helen. Mrs. Dishman would sell most of her Kaufman County property and buy 2,500 acres adjoining her son's land to the west. Mrs. Dishman , the former Georgia Murdock Berryman, was born 11/2/1835 and is to die 12/26/22.
Neil Madeley, who had been born in Kaufman County in 1894, would serve in WWI and return to Harlingen in 1919, where he would be elected three times as City Commissioner. Dying in 1956, this First Christian member leaves his wife Eunice, son Neil Jr. and daughter Dorothy.
In 1901 Lena, who will one day become Mrs. Sam Grant of Harlingen, lists "neighborhood" people as Ivey Brewer, Belle Ogan, Annie Apel, Mammie Thomas, the two Johnson girls, Lawrence Brewer, and Lennard Thomas. Lena will die 1/21/63 leaving one son James D. Grant and four daughters, including Georgiana Grant Davis.
1/2/86 The Last Will and Testament of Richard King is probated and all of his property is left to his widow, Henrietta M. King.
5/25/97 Col. Uriah Lott announces that he will build a railroad line from San Antonio to Tampico, Mexico via Brownsville.
1898 Three families come to western Cameron County from the Indian Territory (Oklahoma). The Jesse Thomas Avery family has two small daughters and a son, Henry Avery, was to be born in the area now known as Palm Valley where the Averys constructed a home. At a 2003 reunion Margaret Fox, a 1935 Harlingen High School graduate and descendent of the Averys relates an oral history. She recounts that 15 families were on their way to Veracruz, Mexico from Oklahoma. Their plans were to embark for Brazil where each family was to be awarded 694 acres. While camped in the Lower Rio Grande Valley the Averys were robbed, so they did not continue onward. The family patriarch, T. S. Avery (1/29/69-4/8/16), is buried in the Harlingen City Cemetery as is Catherine E. Avery (6/8/76-12/16/18), "Tender Mother and Faithful Friend."
From her obituary, a young Avery coming here in a covered wagon to the Wilson Tract from Winnewook, OK was to be Mrs. Vernie Belle Avery Payne. Born 9/7/95 she is to die at age 66 on 3/27/62. After marriage she moved to Mercedes, but on 1/1/43 became postmistress of the Combes Post Office. This member of the First Methodist Church, Combes left two sons, one of whom was J. Paul Payne of Harlingen.
Mr. and Mrs. Jesse L. Adams and Mrs. Adams' parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ogan, are the other two families. The latter settle in the Tiocano Lake area where the Adam's daughter Carrie is soon born. Later the Ogans return to Oklahoma to be followed in1912 by the Adams.
Before the year 1900 others living to the southwest of James Dishman were a Mr. Douglass with his family and an old single gentleman from Kentucky named Parkhill who had come for his health. These soon departed when unable to cope with the harsh conditions of frontier life. Two other families were the Watts and Haynes. Mr. Haynes was Lucy Adams' father. Other neighbors were Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Adams. Their son Jess lived with them together with his wife Taney and their two tiny daughters. This family had come in 1898.
4/15/99 More talk about railroad building to the area but no action.
In this year T. S. Avery hauls lumber from Brownsville to what will become the Primera area, and a one room school house is erected. He will pick up students from the area and transport them to the school. He goes as far north as Mrs. Dishman's Rodeo Ranch.
The first of the Lozanos to come into the area are Geronimo and his wife Luisa Rodriguez Lozano. She had been born at Santa Rosalia, southeast of Brownsville. They likely came to the El Muerto Ranch which was located along what is now Godwin Road running north from FM508 east of Combes. Some time after 1906 when his brother Santos started a mercantile store in newly developing Harlingen town, Geronimo was to do the same, also on Jackson Street, thereby starting only the second mercantile store in town.
He will die in 1918, but the family will continue to live in their dwelling at the corner of C and Van Buren Streets. Later son, also Geronimo, will long have his home at 122 W. Madison. It has since been torn down. The senior Lozanos will parent sons, Luiz (father of Yolanda L. Gonzales, a lifelong Harlingenite), Geronimo, and Zaragosa, together with Mrs. Felipa Lozano de la Villareal, and Mrs. Eloisa Lozano de la Rosa. Luisa Lozano, who was born in 1877, will die in Harlingen on or about 11/21/51 at age 74.
It was sometime before the turn of the 20th century when the El Muerto Ranch was in existence. It was located in former School Lands about four miles north-northwest of where the center of Harlingen would be. It was in survey 28 platted to one J.M. Gonzales. Here Don Julian Villareal and his wife Guadeloupe Montalvo Villareal built a house of sod, mud and sticks. They were soon joined by Calixtro Rosales (1859-1947) and his wife Modesta Villegas Rosales (1859-1944) who also built a simple abode. Their daughter was Leonor Rosales Alvarez would be 100 on 2/2/00. At age 48 on 10/18/1882 Julian would die. His son of the same name would later remove to Harlingen to establish a dry goods store with his brothers. This Julian was born 8/26/76 and died 3/8/38. Both are buried in the El Muerto Cemetery located on Godwin Road east of Combes and running north from FM 508. In 1990 Ofelia Olsson would compile a brief history of the cemetery and a comprehensive list all those buried there.
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By the turn of the twentieth century all of the 64 square miles has been surveyed and platted into about 70 tracts. Cameron County is still in possession of the 2 ½ leagues of School Lands constituted by Survey Tracts 25, 26, 27, and 36. Much of the area is owned by railroad companies, some of which are only shell entities. Some of the major owners and the parcels they control (often jointly with assignees) are:
Corpus Christi, San Diego and Rio Grande Narrow Gauge Railroad
Company: Surveys, 275, 279, 281, 282, 283, 284, 285, 286, 289, 290, 291, 292,
301,302, 303, 304;
Houston East and West Texas Railway: 49, 50, 275,276, 279, 280,
281, 282;
Georgetown Railroad Company: 17, 19, 20, 21, 23, 24, 39;
Beatty, Searle, and Forwood: 37, 38, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44;
Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway: 137, 139;
Jose Maria Gonzalez: 28;
John Plunkett: 271;
Thomas G. McGehee: 272;
Samuel Parr: 273;
Mrs. E. R. Collingsworth: 274;
Isaac Hill (who is actually Lon C. Hill's daughter Ida
b.10/19/85): 277, 278;
F. Saldana: 45;
E. Contreras: 46;
S. Saldana: 47.
An individual playing an important role in surveying the area is J.J. Cocke. Initially he was a State Land Agent that surveyed State lands in most counties from the mouth of the Rio Grande to the New Mexico border. In 1890 when he was engineer for the CC&SA Railroad he surveyed parts of the area and later located miles of right–of-way as its chief engineer before the company failed. In 1907 he was working out of Brownsville.
The railroad company first noted was one chartered in 1875 by Mifflin Kenedy, Richard King, Uriah Lott, and the Dull bothers of Pittsburg. Its intention was to connect Corpus Christi with Laredo, but it laid only 53 miles of track to San Diego before lapsing and later going under new ownership. One of the reasons the two ranchers may have entered this venture was a provision of an 1876 Texas law that allotted sixteen sections, that's sixteen square miles, of public lands for each mile of track laid. This law was repealed in 1882.
Some ranch and service communities in the area have grown to the point that they are recognized by map makers and named. In Survey 28 are Olmales and Muerto. Not far from them to the southeast in 272 is Cotio. Las Prietas is a community near where three trails intersect in Survey 26. North of the Arroyo Colorado in Survey 39 is Castanas adjacent to a crossing. Two other crossing communities are just south of the Arroyo. One is La Tasa where the F Street-Expressway 77 Bridge will one day be erected. The second is El Palmital, now the west side of Treasure Hills. These latter two serve travelers on one trail branching southwest from the Alice Stagecoach Road before it reaches Paso Real. Another trail joins it as it leads from the Santa Rosa Ranch northwest of Ojo de Agua.
Shortly thereafter, when it was clear that they would not be the ones to initiate railroads into the Valley, the railroad companies and others begin to sell parcels of their lands. By 1902 some of the owners not noted previously are:
M. S. Schmier: 18;
F. Trevino: 35;
G. S. Dorough: 40;
Y. Rodriguez: 42;
G. W. Mendell: 44;
W. W. Stocking: 50, 288;
George A. Johnston: 138, 290;
J.T.A.: 140;
L.L. Adams: 141;
Juan Silva: 238;
E. M. L. Williams: 276, 280, 286, 292, 302;
J. A. Hoisington: 282;
James Lockhart: 284;
Dayton Moses: 294;
L. G. Brewer: 296, 300.
Mrs. Collinsworth's 274 passes to S. R. Collinsworth.
The Dishmans, who had apparently assigned some of their parcels to the Georgetown Railroad Company, resume ownership of 20, 22, 24, and 38.
In later decades, after Harlingen is established, state law allows it to acquire extra-territorial jurisdiction and eventually annex additional contiguous area based on the city's population and the availability of unorganized adjacent lands.
Some of the first such lands are in the former Concepcion de Carricitos Grant, an area of approximately 83 square miles south of the Arroyo Colorado to the river. This grant and its subsequent disposition beginning in 1883 have a long and complicated history. The reader is directed to Ruby Wooldridge's 1951 Texas College of Arts and Industry Master's Thesis, "The Spanish and Mexican Land Grants of Present Day Cameron County." It deals with the history of this land grant. This work is to be found in Valley libraries.
By the 1990s Harlingen was moving west from the Stuart Place Tract into the next large tract, that of Adams Gardens. Its history, in brief, is this. Don Anastacio Treviño took possession of parts of the La Feria Grant in 1843. In 1851 Josiah Turner married one of Treviño's daughters. She died in 1854, and he married the remaining daughter, Tomasa Treviño. In 1867 he took charge of the ranch and "controlled it as my own." This was the Galveston Ranch. When Don Anastacio died in 1874 he left the property to his daughter, who later deeded a half-interest to her husband. He possessed what was to be the Adams Garden land for 39 years. In 1906 he sold the Adams Gardens portion of the property to three St .Louis men—Thomas W. Carter, Lemuel Carter, and Peyton T. Carr. After four years they sold it to W.T. Adams of Corinth, MI. He was a wealthy sawmill machinery manufacturer. It was 14 miles long and had 9,561 acres mostly in brush in the year 1910. In 1930 Adams decided to sell. Seventy-six miles of roads were built after a survey. Land was cleared and citrus orchards planted, however the depression in the 1930s hurt land sales.
1900 Leonidas Carrington Hill, a Beeville lawyer, comes by stagecoach to Brownsville to participate in a case. He observes scattered agricultural activities and gains some sense of the area's potential. His transition from Beeville lawyer to Valley developer is provided in detail in "Lon C. Hill 1862-1935 Lower Rio Grande Valley Pioneer" a 1973 biography compiled by his great-niece Kate Adele Hill. Additional background material is to be found in 1) "Harlingen Golden Anniversary Celebration –April 24-30 (1960), Official Program" compiled, written, and edited by Verna Jackson McKenna; and 2) Norman Rozeff's "Sugarcane and the Development of the Lower Rio Grande Valley 1875-1922, Chapter 5 The Hill Sugar Mill."
Also in the Valley this year is John D. Hill, no relative. Born in Lebanon, KY 9/3/57 Hill had come to Texas in 1877 after being educated in St. Louis. This Catholic of English ancestry married Linnie Bell 5/11/81. He was the manager for Lon C. Hill's hardware/implement store in Brownsville around 1902. He became a pioneer Harlingen land developer and real estate man. He would later serve the city and be involved in Lon Hill's enterprises.
When Mr. and Mrs. Guadeloupe Rodriguez move to Paso Real this year little do they know that the thriving community with over 80 homes is destined to soon shrink. The Inn closes first, then the ferry. Later periodic floods in the Arroyo Colorado sweep away many homes, and time and the elements do the rest. By 1975 only four will remain. The Rodriguez work a small farm south of the arroyo in Cameron County. Four of their boys and one daughter are born on the farm. These include Agapito in 1908, Pedro 1910, Gonzalo, Gregorio, and Rita. Seferino and his other siblings later call urban Rio Hondo home.
8/12/02 Lon C. Hill makes application to the Cameron County Commission to purchase the County School Lands of 2 ½ leagues (11,070 acres) for $13,837.50 or $1.25 per acre. He later receives approval for his bid on very favorable terms. The court takes a promissory note for the whole amount making the note due in ten years at 6% annual interest with payments. Part of the consideration is that he "enclose it with a four strand barbed wire fence with good mesquite posts 12 feet apart and to erect on said land at least three good windmills with dirt tanks."
9/20/02 E. M. L. Williams has been homesteading on Survey 290 which immediately abuts the Arroyo Colorado (and today would stretch from the arroyo north to Rio Hondo Road and have a width about from 4th Street east to16th Street.) He has acquired the 665.2 acres of 292, where he has erected a house, and the 640 acres of 280. He makes application to the state to purchase the 640 acres of 290 for $960 or $1.50 an acre. However it is George A. Johnston and his wife L. M. Johnston that again make application to purchase 290 for the same price on 4/7/03. They do acquire it only to turn around and sell it and also Survey 138, also 640 acres, to Lon C. Hill on 3/21/04 for $350.00 and the assumption of payments. Survey 138 is about three miles north of the Arroyo Colorado and .9 mile east of the La Feria Grant boundary.
10/18/02 Uriah Lott visits Brownsville to investigate railroad potential to the Valley.
11/28/02. In an interview with a reported for the Beeville Bee newspaper Hill notes that over the past 15 months he has purchased for himself and others 300,000 acres of Valley land including the Jim Wells ranch of 50,000 acres.
1/12/03 The St. Louis, Brownsville and Mexico Railway is formed this date and chartered 6/6/03 to create a railroad line from Sinton to Brownsville. Its incorporators are: Uriah Lott, R.J. Kleberg (son-in-law of Henrietta M. King), John B. Armstrong, R. Driscoll, James B. Wells, George F. Evans, John G. Kenedy, Arthur E. Spohn, Robert Driscoll Jr., E.H. Caldwell, J.J. Welder, F. Yturria, Thomas Carson, Caesar Kleberg, and R. King.
August 1903 Hill and associate Thomas L. Jones and their families leave Beeville for the Valley. The 155 mile journey with fourteen large wagons, their holdings, and sixty head of stock takes thirteen days.
8/10/03 The Lon C. Hill Improvement Company is chartered. The following year its name is changed to the Lon C. Hill Town and Improvement Company. Its capitalization is $200,000. Incorporators include Hill, his best fiend, Dr. S.H. Bell, and Jim Dougherty. James Lockhart, Hill's foreman, directs the clearing and grubbing of parts of the 543 acre Harlingen townsite. He also manages the first commissary. Jim Dougherty, a Brownsville resident, has been interested in developing the Valley for a decade at least. He worked with Lt. Chatfield in the failed Chatfield Irrigation Company, an outfit conceived ahead of its time.
11/03 A preliminary survey commences for the Sam Fordyce Branch(also called the Hidalgo Branch) rail line, 56 miles of track running west from Harlingen to Fordyce, west of what will be Mission. It is this line which opens the door for the settlement of numerous Valley towns such as La Feria, Mercedes, Weslaco, Alamo, San Juan, Pharr, McAllen, and Mission. Engineer Charley Ensminger is in charge initially but is so terrified by the wild territory that Chief Engineer Col. F.G. Jonah replaces him with W.T. Millington. By May 1904 work on this branch began in earnest. Because of the level grades involved, the line was two and a half miles from completion by September 20,1904.
3/11/04 For $4,736 Henrietta M. King, the heir to her husband Richard's estate, conveys to Hill 2,368 acres. The terms are $2,368 cash and the remainder in two notes of $1,184 each due one and two years at 8%. The total price is therefore $2.12/acre. The parcels he obtains are Survey 287, 640 acres; 289, 640; 291, 640; 299, 320; 303, 60; and 305, 68.
3/26/04 Township of Harlingen being laid out.
4/11/04 Arroyo Colorado steel bridge planned. It is to be the biggest on the Lott line.
The nascent community needs an official name to append to the railroad stop and station to be. In talking with Hill, Col. Lott, conceiver of the railroad line to the Valley, suggests the name Harlingen. His maternal grandmother is Eliza Van Harlingen who was born in Harlingen, New Jersey, itself named after the small northern Holland town of Harlingen from which her ancestors came. With the canals soon to be in the area and their commonality with the canals of Holland, this name is accepted. Hill might have named the community for himself, except that he had already selected the name Lonsboro for the planned Sam Fordyce Branch railroad station stop in the Capisallo Ranch he had purchased from Jim Wells in 1902. He later sold this land to the American Rio Grande Land and Irrigation Company, which eventually used the name Mercedes for a site slightly to the west.
4/20/04 Railroad reaches Harlingen at 10 am, but the temporary wooden bridge across the arroyo is not complete yet. The town is dry. It will reach Brownsville on 6/7/04.
5/2/04. The temporary bridge is completed. [For additional information on the railroad bridges see "The Railroad Bridges of Harlingen" link.]
6/3/04 On this date Wenceslao Saldana and Felipa A. de Saldana, husband and wife, convey to L.C. Hill 160 acres for $500. This parcel begins at the north boundary of School Survey 26 and north of what will become Combes. Hill buys it to dedicate part of it to the railroad right-of-way. Shortly thereafter on 6/10/04 Hill dedicates to F. Yturria, John G. Kenedy, and Robert J. Kleberg, trustees of the SLB&M Railway, 1/20 of all shares of the townsite and improvement company to be formed and 1/5 of other lands plus a 100' right-of-way.
6/24/04 A permit for the establishment of a post office is awarded. Some might argue that this action officially establishes Harlingen on the map.
7/4/04 On this date the first passenger train of the St. Louis, Brownsville and Mexico Railway to the Valley arrives in Harlingen en route to Brownsville. Before this date Sam Robertson, the railroad engineer, has surreptitiously been hauling individuals, their families, and chattel to the Valley on work trains.
The railroad company uses 4-4-0 locomotives, but these will soon supplanted by 2-6-0s. The 4-4-0 was built continuously through the end of the 19th century. It handled both freight and passenger traffic and was nearly universal, so much so that it acquired the name "American Standard" or simply "American." In 1884, 60 % of all U.S. steam locomotives were 4-4-0s. The widespread application of air brakes in the 1880s spelled the end for 4-4-0s. Air brakes made it possible to run longer and heavier trains and that created the demand for more powerful locomotives. The 2-6-0 had a swiveling lead truck which was self-centering, and together with the driving wheels, a three point suspension system was created. This allowed the locomotive to traverse uneven track. It had 50% more adhesion than a 4-4-0. It acquired the name Mogul because it could produce more power than a 4-4-0. Over 11,000 Moguls were built, but it never developed into a modern locomotive. It in turn was supplanted by the 2-8-0 with even more adhesion.
A two mile sendero (Spanish for path) has been cleared in the heavy brush from Lon C. Hill's Arroyo Colorado camp, named "salty lonesome" by the family, to a point on the railroad that is to be the junction ( present day Harrison and Commerce Streets) where the spur railroad line to the west side of the Valley will take off. The junction of sendero and railroad is marked on surveyors' maps as "Harlingen." The sendero then continues a mile directly west. The railroad construction crews and the trainmen have another name for the community –Rattlesnake Junction.
A box car serves as the very first railroad depot. After a real railroad depot is built, W.E. Hollingsworth, the first railway agent, used a curtained off portion for his personal quarters.
9/16/04 The Rio Grande floods at Presidio and later at Havana ( west of what would become Mission). The river is fifteen miles wide in the vicinity of Fordyce. The previous such high had occurred in 1846. Southwest of La Feria the overflow waters enter the Arroyo Colorado. At Harlingen, despite the dismantling in order to minimize flow obstructions of the wooden framework being utilized to erect the steel bridge, the steel work collapses to the floor of the arroyo as both concrete piers are undermined. The site of the crossing was poor as the floor around the piers was discovered to be quicksand.
9/21/04 Portions of the temporary wooden railroad bridge give way due to the effects of flooding. Before repairs are completed Brownsville train traffic is interrupted for 28 days. Harlingen postmaster Lockhart delivers mail to Brownsville on a railroad handcart. Reconstruction of the railroad bridge begins 10/6/04.
1/30/05 For $10 Hill turns over acreage under his name to the Lon C. Hill Town and Improvement Company. This includes 900.7 acres in Survey 36 with 206.3 acres being retained; Survey 289 with 640 acres; Survey 290 with 640 acres; and Survey 291 with 640 acres less the railroad right-of-way of approximately 55 acre.
1/31/05 For the planned Sam Fordyce Branch, Hill conveys right-of-way to railroad through Surveys 26, 27, 36, 289, and 290. The conveyance is filed 3/9/05.
9/18/05 Built by the Johnston brothers, railroad contractors, the steel railroad bridge which crosses the Arroyo Colorado, is nearly complete.
Sometime during the year 1905 Hill has constructed a brick kiln along the north bank of the Arroyo Colorado.
3/12/06 On this day, Hill kills a young man from Corpus Christi named Theodore F. Dix. Hill, on horseback, encounters the pistol brandishing youth on foot at a site east of the Arroyo Colorado. Hill asks the man to set aside the gun or give it to him. When Dix refuses and begins to wave the weapon, Hill, in the presence of one half dozen witnesses, opens fire and kills him with three shots. Dix leaves a widow and two young children. The following day Hill appears in court in Brownsville where friends post the $3,000 bail. In February 1907 the case is finally adjudicated. Hill is quickly found "not guilty" in that the homicide was one of self-defense.
3/19/06 The Brownsville Herald proclaims that Hill owns 100,000 acres.
January 1907 Canal intake excavation work at the river about
9.75 miles south of the Arroyo Colorado is in progress. Later in the year 450
men and seventy teams of mules and horses will be hard at work on the canal
under the supervision of experienced engineer John D. Hill.
6/15/07 Hill is quoted as being broke when he came to the Valley five years ago. His wealth is now conservatively estimated at $800,000, and he owns 160,000 acres fee simple. In the Valley he assisted railroad magnate B.F. Yoakum and his associates. Hill at one time was begged to buy Brownsville area land at $3.00 an acre.
8/17/07 Plans are made for starting the power house pumping plant to lift water from the river into the Harlingen Canal. A.R. Mann, a mechanical engineer from Chicago is engaged to take charge of the machinery. He is already in Harlingen. It was the discovery of oil at Spindletop in1901 which made feasible and expedited the pumps along the river, for this energy source was economical and readily available in contrast to ever-diminishing forestry products burned to generate steam.
9/3/07 A Brownsville Herald article promotes the Harlingen Developments. It reports "Beginning tomorrow morning at 9 o'clock, plots of the townsite and maps of the lands may be consulted at the office of J.S. Dougherty, Brownsville, where the opening sale is being conducted."
9/7/07 The Harlingen Canal pumps are scheduled to start.
9/10/07 The Harlingen Land and Water Company is chartered for the purpose of the construction, maintenance, and operation of flumes, reservoirs, lakes, wells, canals, and later other and all appurtenances for the purpose of irrigation, navigation, milling, mining, stock raising, and city water works, and the supply and transferring of water to all persons entitled to same for the purposes mentioned. With its office in Harlingen its life is set as 50 years. Five directors appointed for one year are Lon C. Hill, Paul Hill, John D. Hill, Dr. S.H. Bell and Peter Ebenezer Blalack. The capital stock is $300,000, par value $100 – all of the capital stock of the corporation being subscribed by the above directors. With eighteen miles of main canal, the pumping station and other facilities in place, 6,095 acres out of the Concepcion de Carricitos Grant are transferred to the water company. On 9/20/07 Hill also conveys other land to the Harlingen Land and Water Co.
10\07. In addition to selling Harlingen-area land through his own company, Hill is willing to pay commissions to other realtors to move acreage. One is W. O. Coleman, who came to Brownsville from Mississippi in January 1906. Another agency selling Harlingen Land and Water Company properties was the St. John Land & Investment Company of Brownsville.
10/29/07 The Big Flume being built by the land and water company to convey water across the Arroyo Colorado is scheduled to be finished in 30 days. Its cost is projected to be $20,000.
Hill's initial subdivision offering involves 4,500 acres to be sold in tracts ranging from five to forty acres, the prices being fixed according to their proximity to the canals, laterals, railroad, and Harlingen townsite. His assertion that the soil is sandy loam is a stretch because most of it is, in fact, heavy Harlingen clay.
Hill pays contractors $10 per acre to clear the land. By October 1907 2,000 acres have been prepared. The contractors, who at this time have a force of 400 men distributed in gangs of twenty, do not have claim to the timber which is mostly ebony and mesquite. Hill can sell these for fuel, fence posts, and railroad ties and sometimes cover the clearing costs.
Within two to three miles of his residence, Hill is running 450 head of cattle as well as hogs, chickens and turkeys.
1/9/07 A plan is afoot for the installation of a second pump at the river station. This will double the 15,000gpm capacity of the first one, now operating for two months. The machinery has already been reserved. At present the canal is reported to be 12 miles long and 50 feet wide.
1908 Likely in this year Harlingen has its first running water system. It is the Mooreland Lateral that comes from the main canal south of town and is then connected by a pipe to the Mooreland Hotel. The water entered a cistern tank from which it was lifted by a windmill pump to a water tower higher than the hotel itself. Two private baths run by a Mr. Prelir (?) and several public baths were then available. A bridge at Jackson Avenue straddled the water lateral there.
1/1/08 Hill, in an expansive, salesman-like mode, says he is ready to plant 5,000 acres of sugarcane northwest of Harlingen and that contracts are now pending with Louisiana and Cuban growers to put out 10,000 acres of cane south of the Arroyo Colorado and west of the Brownsville rail line. A railroad spur built to connect Harlingen to the river was offered as a prospect. Prospects were also noted that the Arroyo Colorado would be dredged in part to become a section of the propose extension of the Intercoastal Waterway system. Money for a survey was appropriated by Congress.
2/8/08 The suit over the Las Mesteñas, Pititas, y la Abra tract is settled after 14 years of litigation; Hill gets 14,000 acres out of the 103,022 involved.
3/28/08 River irrigation water reaches Harlingen in the 11.5 miles of canal south of the community. The last stretch was across the arroyo on the flume. The newspaper notes that the canal was started 5/2/07 by Walter Vann, son of Capt. J.W. Vann, who is in charge. The one 24 inch pump is to be supplemented by two 36 inch ones, so up to 35,000 acres may be irrigated. Although Harlingen now has water, it still lacks water mains and other infrastructure for direct delivery of drinkable water to its residents. Cirilo Rodriguez would pump water from the canal near his residence at 802 W. Filmore, settle it in large tin tanks, and the deliver the water by barrel to customers.
6/5/08 On this date 22 miles of canals are said to be in operation, enough to irrigate 40,000 acres. The cost of them is put at $280,000.
11/08 About 26 miles of canal, primary and secondary, are in operation and 75,000 acres are being or are ready for irrigation. During this period Hill is helping to frame the state law that will put into being the first semi-governmental irrigation district in the state. This is to be Cameron County Irrigation District No. 1, established on August 10,1914, when election returns were filed.
7/13/08 Hill contacts D. A. Garden regarding the compilation of a sales prospectus. He provides these figures. Canals now built valued at $200,000; sugar mill when constructed $240,000; 5,000 acres of land for mill production $200,000; 8,000 acres unimproved land $400,000; land with cane $200/acre and without $50/acre. He notes that he, the Harlingen Land and Water Company, and J. P. Stevenson collectively own 46,000 acres.
7/14/08 The Land and Water Company submits a plat map to Cameron County Clerk, J. Webb. It is to subdivide Surveys 289, 290, and part of 36. The lots are all north of the company's main canal, which itself is north of and parallel to the Arroyo Colorado. East of present 7th Street are 27 lots ranging from about 11.4 acres to 18.8 acres in size. To the north of town are 17 lots of similar size and 8 more ranging from 24.6 to 55.6 acres in size. South and west of the town area are a total of 21 lots 5.1 to 15.6 acres in size. James Lockhart and Dr. Ferguson have adjacent lots where the railroad tracks turn from the south into the Sam Fordyce Branch. The train depot sits in the triangle bounded by the tracks coming from the north to the south and diverging from both directions to the west branch. Seventy five complete rectangular lots and nine partial ones sit in the town to the east of the tracks. West of the tracks are 57 whole lots and eight partial ones. Harrison Street is shown as 80' in width. There are no railroad track crossings at Tyler or Van Buren Streets. The town itself is a square of 414 acres or .64 square mile. It runs east-west from current 7th Street to current F Street and north-south from the south side of Washington to the north side of Lincoln. Three whole city blocks are dedicated to be parks. They are Bowie between Madison and Jefferson, Travis between Polk and Tyler, and Diaz between Harrison and Van Buren. By 1917, when the lots east to what is now 13th Street start to be developed, the city will be 1.06 square mile in size.
10/23/08 The Harlingen Land and Water Company has 100 acres of sugarcane seed and plans to plant several hundred acres next fall.
11/10/08 The above company holds its annual meeting wherein Lon C. Hill is named president and general manager. Kate Bailey is secretary.
It is in 1908 that a tract is laid out by Dr. Pierre Wilson and Frank W. Kibbe of Brownsville. It is the Survey 25 parcel formerly owned by Thomas L. Jones.
2/1/09 An example of the rapidly escalating prices for land is provided by the following transactions over a ten year period. On this date the HL&W Co. sells to James N. Kilgore farm block 44 (east of town). The 11 1/10 acre goes for $1,700 with water to be furnished and paid at $3/ac./yr.whether used or not. When planted the water rates are dependent on the crops. For corn and cotton this is $4/ac/yr.; sugarcane and alfalfa $6/ac/yr.; and for crops such as fruit, vegetables, rice demanding more water than cane are charged $10. On 7/31/09 J.N. Kilgore and wife Anna M. sell the property to William H. Kilgore for $2,775. On 12/24/09 it is conveyed to R.S. Chambers, bank president, Harlingen State Bank to secure a $1,000 mortgage note which is paid off 7/20/11. On 8/13/12 the property is sold to Searcy Baker of Harris County for $3,500 as notarized by Miller V. Pendleton. Baker in turn subdivides it and sells a 100' x 300' lot to H.H. Burchard for $375. On 1/11/19 Baker sells the remainder of block 44 to William B. Weber for $4,000.
7/2/09 The Improvement Company sells to the Land and Water Company 590 acres out of Survey 290. The price is $50 an acre, total $29,500.
7/10/09 With the hyperbole which only Lon C. Hill could generate the St. Louis Daily Globe-Democrat runs a large type headline with following article on him The headline reads "How a Full Blooded Choctaw Indian Has Made $6,000,000 in 6 Years".
9/25/09 Plans are revealed to improve Harlingen drainage.
9/28/09 An election is held and a town government is formed. Twenty-seven voters are for incorporation. John Bartlett, Cameron County Judge declares the town to be duly incorporated. Also a school district is organized and seven trustees are elected. W.H. Kilgore receives 26 votes, R.S. Chambers 26, C.F. Perry 26, H.N. Morrow 26, John Snavely 23, J.A. Card 23, W.E. Hollingsworth 20. A.H. Weller with 18 votes is denied election.
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1900 Jesus Saldana is part of the extended family operating La Providencia Ranch. It is located in Surveys 45 and 47 directly west of what will initially be Harlingen. The sendero opened in 1904, and which would become Harrison Street, runs a mile or so to the S. Saldana property. This is important because the ranch is a source of good water, a necessity the community still lacks. From the well on the ranch, water is hauled by the barrel until the canal reaches Harlingen in early 1908. The charge is 50 cents per barrel for this service.
The wagon road going south from the adjacent F. Saldana ranch to allow a low water crossing of the Arroyo Colorado is now Tucker Road. Just beyond where it ends on the north side of the arroyo was a community named Castenas. [For more information on this subject see "The Location of La Providencia Ranch" link.]
6/24/02 Hill invites Brownsville Herald newspaper editor to view his four 14" sulky plows pulled by a steam engine. This equipment is operating on his Brownsville holdings and for the Valley is revolutionary. Hill is a progressive farmer and even sends soil samples to Texas A&M College for analyses. He recognizes the good drainage and fertility of lands adjacent to the resacas after observing Mexicans growing vegetables on them. He also realizes that lack of water is the primary limiting factor for land away from the river. A key insight is his grasp of the fact that the river flows on terrain higher than the areas to its north. This means that gravity flow in irrigation transport canals is possible once the water is lifted out of the river. The elevation of Harlingen is, in fact, nine feet below that of the river bed.
August 1903 Lon C. Hill and associate Thomas L. Jones and their families leave Beeville for the Valley. The 155 mile journey with fourteen large wagons, their holdings, and sixty head of stock takes thirteen days. Jones comes with his wife and seven children.
Thomas L. Jones, a native of Mississippi who had come to Texas in 1901. He acquires from Hill the former Cameron County School Lands Survey 25 with its approximate 4,500 acres northeast (currently Primera) of Harlingen and perhaps prematurely attempts to irrigate portions of it but fails in his effort. [He may have utilized well water since no canals from the river were yet constructed in the area.] Mary Jones teaches school age children in the vicinity at her father's ranch house. While Hill had paid $1.25 an acre to purchase Survey 25 from the county we do not know what Jones paid him for the land. However Jones reportedly obtains $13 an acre when he later sells the tract to Dr. Pierre Wilson of Dallas and Frank W. Kibbe, an aggressive Brownsville real estate promoter who will also be president of the La Feria Townsite Company and the La Feria Land and Irrigation Company, in November 1908. Wilson had expressed an interest in building a sanitarium on part of the land though having retired from his medical practice in Dallas. Wilson was originally from Hennepin County, Minnesota possibly coming to Texas via Lawton, OK. In a land sales brochure he is advertised to have planted 108 acres of cotton in the spring of 1911 and raised 125 bales from it. The first 100 bales brought him $5,776.20 and the other 25, $1,250. Five acres of his sorghum which he cut several times in the year brought him 12 tons/acre which he sold for $10-14 per ton. The area thereafter is called the Wilson Tract and the road leading from it to Harlingen is Wilson Road. A 1909 map shows that the Wilson Tract had been platted into 110 lots of 40 acres each. Engineer A.W. Amthor of La Feria surveyed and laid out the tract. The Tract encompassed the whole of Survey 25. The uncleared land is offered for $150 an acre. After becoming ill, Dr. Wilson sells the land to Mr. (H.E.?) Shaff, former president of the Missouri, Kansas, and Texas Railroad, known for short as the Katy. Mr. Shaff was in town by April 1909. In the 1920s the property with its citrus orchids is used as a showplace. Prospective buyers are treated by Valley Developments, Inc. to meals at the ranch clubhouse.
6/11/04 Lon C. Hill buys the season's first two bales of cotton. He sends one to the Louisiana Purchase Exposition 1904 World's Fair in St. Louis in order to publicize the area and give the U.S. an indication of the earliness of Valley cotton. He sends the second bale to the Houston Cotton Exchange for the same reason but also for the first bale produced in the year in Texas and the United States to be auctioned. This establishes a tradition.
7/1905 William Doherty in the Gulf Coast Magazine published by the Gulf Coast Line in Kingsville provides a cost figure for Hill's canal building. To be taken cautiously is the figure of $4,500 per mile from the quote "Every mile of it (canal) represents $4,500 worth of faith on the part of this man."
1906 With brick from his own arroyo-side kiln, Lon C. Hill builds the substantial brick barn whose site was the west side of the present municipal auditorium. It would later be used in the Valley Mid-Winter Fair.
10/23/08 The HL&WC sells one of its first lots, 30.6 acres, on the west side of block 47 to C.P. Albright of Barry County, MO for $510 including water delivery.
It is in 1908 that Robert Lewis Chaudoin becomes overseer of the Dilworth Ranch and Farm west of Harlingen and south of the Arroyo Colorado. Robert is from Oak Forest in Gonzales County. His wife and five of the children will follow in 1909. Winston Harwood may have some investment in R. S. Dilworth's ranch.
1909 Samuel Davis Grant, son of Hannah Harriet and William Talley Grant, comes to the area after surgery by Dr. Pierre (Perry)Wilson. He becomes foreman of Dr. Wilson's ranch. After the ranch falls into the hands of the Mr. Shaff, former president of the "Katy" railroad, Grant acts as the bookkeeper. Born in Robertson City, TX in 1883, he attended TCU and UT where he completed his studies in 1903. He marries Helena (Lena) Templeton of Santa Elena Ranch in 1914 and together they have five children: Georgiana, Christine, Francis, James, and Helena. Her Uncle James Dishman presents them with 320 acres of virgin land as a wedding present. In 1915 Grant purchases land east of Combes (and now HYW 77) and farms it, but in 1918 he commences the Ebony Grove Dairy with a herd of fine Jerseys. Sam is for a time president of Kiwanis, on the Harlingen School Board, and the Boy Scout Board. He is to die of a heart attack 1/23/46.
1908 Jacob Samuel "Sweet Potato Jake" Pletcher comes to the Valley from Ohio with his brother George H. Pletcher, Sr. In 1909 they buy 74 acres of "high ground", now Pletcher Floral Co. on W. Harrison and former site of the old Pletcher home. Paying $60 an acre they soon plant the first citrus in that area. His father-in-law John Snavely, who later is president of the first school board, comes about the same time. Pletcher receives his nick-name while supplying sweet potatoes to the government in the Great War. He makes the first sale of carpet grass here and exhibits a 16 lb. sweet potato in the 1921 fair. He and his brother start the first commercial nursery in the Valley. His son Bill and nephew George Jr. start their own nursery in 1926. In 1950 Jake leaves the Valley. He dies in Lufken 7/16/61 at age 79.
1909 Levi Elmer Snavely (1869-1939) of Thornton, Indiana hears a lecture in Corpus Christi about the Valley. With capital of $1,750 he sets out 100 citrus trees near Brownsville. Later he moves to the Valley and eventually by 1930 has 1,200 acres in tomatoes, 1,000 in potatoes, 200 in beans, in addition to 150,000 citrus trees. He has packing plants at Snavely (Wilson Road?), Rio Hondo, Weslaco, Edcouch, and Santa Rosa. Later he will be the RGV district representative of the American Fruit Growers, Inc. In 1928 he builds an impressive Norman-style house on Wilson Road (next to where the Lt. George Guttierrez, Jr. Junior High School is currently located).Its designer is noted Harlingen architect Birger A. Elwing. Named La Bonita, it will later warrant a Texas State Historical Commission marker. The school site was the H.L. Starnes Farm from 1920 to 1982.
9/20/09 Soon after arriving from Lawton, OK, C.W. Clift is to plant 30 acres of cabbage. Later in the late fall he follows up with peavine hay.
10/2/09 640 acres of fine cane land near Harlingen are advertised for sale at $35 per acre.
In this year Earl Wetmore, who had come with his family, is credited with planting the first citrus tree in the Harlingen area.
J.C. Crosset and his wife of Minnesota purchase 40 acres in April of this year and arrive in Harlingen on 11/5/09. Mrs. Crosset will take an interest in local history. In May 1925 she is to tell a Briggs-Coleman gathering of Harlingen's early days. She notes that early land realtors, W.H. and J.N. Kilgore took prospective buyers out to the David and Stevenson Tract land in a hack or when muddy in a wagon pulled by four mules.
Harlingen itself is still a mixture of farm and urban lots. Where Piggly Wiggly would one day be on Jackson was a barb wire fenced pasture 1 ½ blocks wide holding five cows.
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2/7/05 The Lon C. Hill Town and Improvement Company is organized in Brownsville this date. With $200,000 capital stock its stated purpose is for building erection, improvement, loans for same and subdivision of real estate. Its principles are Hill, James R. Daugherty and S. H. Bell. John D. Hill is secretary.
1906(early) Santos Lozano, who had come from Alice in 1905, buys the second commercial lots on Main (Jackson) Street. He builds a small frame structure for a general store with living quarters upstairs. This building is removed in 1915 and replaced by a large two–story brick structure. The bricks are imported from Monterrey, Mexico. Initially the building has "S. Lozano and Son-1915" etched on the top of its north-facing and west-facing facades. Don Guillermo Lozano, Santos' son, will open the first meat market west of the railroad.
Santos Lozano was born in Ejidos San Nicolas de los Garzas (now part of Monterrey), Nuevo Leon State, Mexico in 1863. His parents, Felipe and Otta Gracia Lozano had immigrated to Texas during the Mexican-French War and ended up in Collins, TX when Santos was two years old. In Alice Santos would eventually operate a mercantile store for fourteen years before making his way to Harlingen. After the death of his first wife, Micaela Beasley, he would marry Tomasa Cantu with whom he would have children, another Santos and Edme. His oldest son Juan B. Lozano was born in Alice 4/12/92, educated at public schools, and, in 1909, became a merchant with his father in Lozano and Son. He was to marry Herlinda Hinojosa 5/12/12. His younger brother, Santos V. Lozano was born in Alice on 7/27/94, and also educated in public schools. When he entered the business the store was called S. Lozano & Son Dry Goods Store. He came to Harlingen at age 11 and was to serve in WWI in a medical detachment. He later was an American Legion member and was in the Woodmen of the World. Both brothers were proud of their Irish-Mexican heritage. The other Lozano children who came to Harlingen by train in 1905 were Fivela, Porfirio, Otilia, and Alfredo. In the 1920s the Lozanos will have placed store branches in La Feria, Donna, and Raymondville. Santos would die at the ripe old age of 90. A daughter, Micaela "Mickey" Lozano was born in Harlingen on May 10, 1910. She would go on to graduate Harlingen High School, attend Texas A&I, and receive a B.S. Degree in Education from Pan Am. She married Manuel I. "Meme" Garibay who died in 1954. Retiring as a teacher in 1981, Mrs. Garibay was to die in Brownsville on 11/14/04 at age 94. Micaela's sister Sofia was also born in Harlingen.
1906 The railroad company feels confident enough of Harlingen's future that it constructs a two-story, u-shaped, frame hotel having 10 rooms with two baths and verandas on both floors. Its location is the center of town, Hill (now First) Street and Harrison. Its first manager is Mrs. August H. Weller. [Mrs. Weller's father, Charles Bock, Sr. (also spelled in the original German, Boch), has the distinction of being the first Texas Ranger.] She is followed in management by Mr. and Mrs. B.F. Ogan.
A.H. Weller opens one of a series of saloons around town. One large one is on the south side of Jackson a short distance east of Commerce Street. It has a large false front second story upon which it advertises "Saloon." It looks straight out of a Hollywood western. In time he will run thirteen "watering holes."
9/5/06 Weller buys the three lots at Tyler and Commerce and two lots at Commerce and Jackson.. These are the first lots conveyed by the Town and Improvement Company. Ten days later Santos Lozano buys two lots at Jackson and "A" Streets.
10/21/07 Sales recorded in Hill's lumber company ledger indicate local activities and individuals in the community. These include lumber for a windmill for Hathaway, lumber for American houses and Mexican houses being built by Elmer Anglin, for A.H. Weller's restaurant, O.G. Bats –shingles, Santos Lozano and Brothers, Pancho Garcia with the Harlingen Land and Water Company, Perrie Clarke, Jesus Lopez, A. Goldammer, Bland H. Chamberlain, S.A. McHenry, Lon Robinson, T.L. Jones (11/28/07), Francisco Valdes (12/07), James Lockhart (12/07, C. Balduff, Albert Sammons --barb wire, J.J. Hackney, W.Z. Weems for Hill, W.E. Hollingsworth, Walter Stocking --wire, E.C. Hammond, and to the Piper Texas Plantation a Pluto Disc Plow with three horse hitch.
1907 The Taylor Lumber Company opens. In November of this year Hill commences construction on his large two-story building.
4/08 M.M. Osborn commences publication of the Harlingen Star, a weekly.
1908 A.W. Elmore opens the community's first barber shop in a small wooden building at the southeast corner of what is now Commerce and Jackson Street.
1908 (fall) C.S. Moore purchases the hotel from the railroad company. It becomes known as the Moorland Hotel. It is razed in 1928 but was still in existence as the Madison Hotel was constructed to its northeast side. Mr. Moore is an avid fisherman and held the honor of landing the first summer tarpon at Port Isabel from 1906 through 1909. The Ogans, who have managed the railroad hotel in Raymondville, come to manage the Mooreland. In 1908 they then built a two-story frame hotel with 22 rooms at 321 W. Jackson, west of the tracks. It is razed in 1945 at which time Mrs. Ogan still owned it and four adjacent lots. Mr. Ogan had died in 1922.
Cora L. and Ben Franklin Ogan came from Sedalia, MO with children Gladys, Lois, and Roland. Lois was to become Mrs. Bush Williams. Mrs. Ogan's mother, Mrs. Serena Brown, lived with her as did her brother Grover Brown. They helped at the hotel, which Mrs. Ogan lived and worked in until 1945 when she moved to 301 W. Pierce. Her grandson, Dr. E.L. Richter of St. Louis gave her this two story furnished house. Mrs. Ogan, a First Christian member, died 2/15/49. Roland helped in the hotel too, later moving to Brownsville, dying 1/1/68. Grover Brown who was born 7/13/86 in Clinton, IL was chief clerk, 1910-52, for MoPac for 42 years. Also a First Christian and a Mason, he died in 1954.
1908 The large two-story brick Lon C. Hill Building is erected at the northwest corner of Van Buren and A Streets by contractor Andrew Goldammer. Its completion is slowed by the handwork needed at Hill's arroyo brick works and kiln. The bricks are marked with Lon C. Hill's kiln identification. This was a bar K (K), the same as Hill used as his cattle brand. Hill's brick kiln operations were semi-commercial in that he used much of the production for his own use. The kiln and clay source were immediately adjacent to the Arroyo Colorado on its north side within a couple hundred yards west of the railroad bridge. Several industrial buildings were at the site. The commercial name may have been the Harlingen Brick Works, for at least the South Texas Lumber Co. billed an outfit with this name for materials on 2/16/10. When finished in 1909, one of building's first floor occupants, besides the Harlingen State Bank, is a general merchandise store operated by Sam Botts and Fred Chambers. Upstairs are offices for the Hill interests along with sleeping quarters for the canal riders. Frank Martin is one of these. To the east, across First Street, was a stable where the canal riders put up their horses. Beyond this was a lumberyard managed by Pat D. Haley, Sr., who also was the village justice of the peace and coroner. The Lon C. Hill building, last owned by insurance man R. N. Jones, will be demolished in 1957 to make room for a bank parking lot.
This same year Ike B. McFarland arrives to manage a lumberyard. Little does he know that two years later he will become the town's first mayor. In 1913 he will return to Houston.Abner Webster (A.W.) Cunningham (b.7/29/63) and his wife Florence Mays (b.3/27/70 in Pinson, TX) come to Harlingen from Waco where he has been an attorney in an office with his brother. They would make their home at the corner of 1st and Austin Streets at 922 North 1st. He would go on to a long and illustrious career, serving as Harlingen's second mayor, a district judge 1923-30, on the county bench 1933-35, and then as a JP. He was a charter member of the First Methodist Church, a Mason, Shriner, organizer and first chairman of the Texas Unemployment Commission, and a real estate developer. The Cunninghams had been married in Belcher 8/7/94 and were, in 1944, able to celebrate their 50th Wedding Anniversary in Harlingen though they had no offspring. Florence would die in 1948, but Judge Cunningham would live until 1963, dying a few weeks short of his 100th birthday. He left a sister here, Mrs. Retta C. Wellborn.
3/09 A.W. Cunningham and E. J. Ernest organize a real estate firm to bring in settlers. C.F. Perry also follows their initiative.
5/4/09 L.S. Ross purchases the lot at 521 E. Harrison and later in the year likely builds a house upon it. Eleven years later it will be purchased by C.F. Bobo. In 5/93 preservationists have it moved to the Rio Grande Valley Museum complex.
9/25/09. William Zachary (W.Z.) Weems, Sr., L.F. Hathaway, and David Allen Barbee form a partnership to manufacture cane syrup. The machinery to process the sugarcane and its juices has arrived and is expected to be set up in a month's time at Hill's farm. In 1908 Weems put in quite an acreage of sugarcane, but it is Barbee with his Coastal Bend syrup-making experience who will deal with the processing. Weems had come with his family to the Valley from Houston in 1907 to work on canal building and land clearing around Mercedes. He had married Lucy Keen in 1883 in West Columbia, TX. While he died in 1931 she, who was born 7/15/1864 in West Columbia, lived until age 82, dying in 1947. This charter member of St. Alban's Episcopal Church, left two daughters who had become school teachers when young.
1909 L.G. Nichols arrives to manage the lumber yard which the South Texas Lumber Company of Houston has purchased from Hill in 1908. In September H.D. Seago becomes secretary for the local branch. In 1985 it is the oldest continuous business operating in Harlingen.
This same year Harlingen's first bank is founded. It is the Harlingen State Bank and is located in the Lon C. Hill Building. Searcy Chambers is president and M.V. Pendleton, cashier and general manager. Later A.H. Weller purchases the bank and moves it to the Weller Building at "A" and Jackson Streets. As its new president Weller hires Bailey Dunlap of La Feria as supervisor and Hoyte Hicks Burchard as manager. On 4/1/18 R.B. Hamilton arrives from Bishop to become bank manager. By 1919 he has raised the capital stock from $15,000 to $25,000. By 1924 Hamilton will have left banking for the insurance business.
Julian Villarreal and his brothers buy two lots at the northeast corner of Van Buren and "C" Streets. They open a dry goods store there. Later he will have a confectionery store, become a deputy constable, and reside at 421 W. Taylor with his wife Emma.
By mid-1909 Jose Guttierez will have a company that sells groceries at 408 W. Harrison.
The Letzerichs [another source says Charles H. Waterwall] erect the brick building at 216 W. Jackson on the northeast corner of Jackson and Commerce. Substantial and continuing billing,10/15/09 through 4/1/10, of the South Texas Lumber Co. to Dr. Letzerich may indicate the building being erected in this period. It will later house the Harlingen Pharmacy owned by Hugo L. Letzerich on its first floor and the offices of his brothers, Dr. Casper W. Letzerich, and Dr. Alfred M. upstairs. One may even conduct some dental work as a building sign indicates. Hugo Letzerich first saw Harlingen as a mail clerk on the first train through the community in 1904. When the post office was in this building he was its postmaster. The structure is currently occupied by an antique emporium. Hugo will marry in 1916 when his fiancée Alma, who was born in Oakland, TX, arrives here. She is a dedicated Methodist whose work for the church will be recognized on Alma Letzerich Day in April 1977. Hugo, who was born in Warrentown,TX 1/6/81, will die in 1936 at age 55.
Casper, age 59, will die 9/5/35 of a heart attack while his wife Maude Weller Letzerich will die 7/7/50 of a heart attack. This First Presbyterian member was residing at 202 E. Tyler at the time of her death.
In 1909 a small telephone exchange can connect to Brownsville via Mr. Hill's private line to the pump station on the river. The exchange opens in the home of its first operator, Mrs. Hoffman, the mother of Leroy and Hilbert. It later moves to the upstairs back room of the Hill Building.
1909 was also the year Sam Botts established himself in Harlingen. Born on 1/4/83 in Bottsville, TX near Gonzales, by 1907 he was in the ginning business for himself in Gonzales. In Harlingen he started buying cotton and selling groceries, the latter with J.B. Chambers, in the Lon C. Hill Building. Botts later married Miss Geneva Tarver, who, in 1917, was a first grade teacher in town. In 1920 he became interested in the concentration, packing, and shipping of citrus fruit and vegetables and formed the Botts Produce Company of Harlingen. Other firm members were W.E. Jeffries and J.R. Barnett. By 1929 he becomes president of the Farmers Gin Company of Harlingen. He was destined to be Harlingen Mayor, 1928-36. This pioneer ginner and 33 year resident of Harlingen, who served on the city commission for 16 years, is to die in July 1942.
1909 According to a later Harlingen Star article by its owners in 1925, the newspaper had been started this year. In the next year on 7/30/10, a Harlingen Star printer is shot according to a brief Brownsville Herald article.
The second train depot, a stucco brick building on Commerce at Van Buren, is built this year or early 1910 because Robert Runyon photos show it but not the new Lozano Building nor the small city hall to come up in 1910. On 1/20/09 two trains daily commence departing Brownsville and coming through Harlingen.
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1902 Santos G. Garcia is born near what will later become Rio Hondo. It is his grandfather who sells Lon. C. Hill the 2000 acre Los Costanos Ranch for 50 cents an acre. Garcia will attend the first Harlingen school for Mexican ethnics. He is later to help subdivide the Mexican housing sections of Harlingen, Brownsville, and Mercedes before going bankrupt in 1934. He then became a claims adjuster for the Lloyd Caldwell Corp., where Harvey Oler was manager. In this same year he begins selling tortilla-making machines. These were invented in Mexico in 1911. Renting a vacant lot at 515 W. Monroe from Carl Woods for $3 a month, Garcia sets up a corn grinder and tortilla machine under a shelter. He soon improves his machine after seeing a more advanced model in Brownsville. By 1941 he is to open four more tortilla factories in Harlingen. A dozen sells for 10 cents. Over time he is to sell 4,000 tortilla-making machines across the southwest. In 1946 he will establish Club Educativo Commedo de Caming. This organization loans money to Latin students attending college. The club has 400 members who contribute 50 cents a month for the education fund.
11/15/02 John Garner, Democratic Uvalde judge is first elected to the U.S. Congress and to represent the Valley.
In 1903, rumors of a yellow fever epidemic sweeping down the river cause Hill to move his family from Brownsville to his holdings north of the Arroyo Colorado, likely near where Ramsey Park is today. Either the Hill or Lockhart family nicknames the site "Salty Lonesome." The sendero connects it to Engineer's Point, a camp on the railroad right-of-way, now near the intersection of Harrison and Commerce Streets.
Minnie Gilbert is to relate that later as Hill's daughter Paul and Ida ride down the newly cut sendero with Uriah Lott, he pulls the four ponies to a halt and says "Young ladies you are now in the city of Harlingen." This was an amazing and amusing statement to make, for prickly pear clumps towered as high as their heads in the mesquite jungle so dense that machetes had to be used to force entrance.
3/04 Upon their arrival in the area, the James Lockhart family live in tents for six months while they construct a crude house. The tenting area is called the Mitchell Place and "Salty Lonesome" by Mrs. Lockhart. They had come to the Valley from Beeville in wagons in November 1903. Near Brownsville Mr. Lockhart managed Lon C. Hill's rice farm. In November 1905 their son Houston is born at the location north of the Arroyo Colorado. Emma Jean Lockhart is later affectionately called "Mother of Harlingen." Born Emma Chestnutt in Iola, Grimes County, TX, she was married in Beeville in April 1899. Temporarily settling in the 100 block of E. Jackson, in January 1908 they move into their new two story home on the west side of the railroad tract on Van Buren. The strong tropical storm of 1909 severely damages it, but it is rebuilt and is not removed until 1943. In addition to assisting Lon Hill in construction and clearing work, Lockhart opens a general mercantile store on the south side of W. Jackson near Commerce. His oldest sons, James, Jr. and Brad work with him in this enterprise. By 1915 a Robert Runyon photograph reveals that this premise has a large painted sign on it saying C.H. Ritter. Lockhart was also the first postmaster in its quarters in the tiny first City Hall. He was also responsible for law and order in the early days.In the early days a false front wooden building adjacent to and west of Lockhart's bears a sign saying Dr. H. E. Whatley Drug Store. This store may have carried more veterinary medicines than human ones.
Mrs. Lockhart, a member of the First Christian Church, dies in February 1936 at the age of 64 and is buried in the Harlingen Cemetery along side her husband's grave. At this time her survivors are Houston and John of Harlingen as is daughter Lula Lockhart. Daughter Laura Allen lives in Dallas and Katheryn Crenshaw in Freer. Sons James and O.B. have preceded her in death.
In Company H of the Texas Rangers stationed here are Capt. Frank I. Johnson, Grosky Marsden, Oscar Rountree, Gus T. (Buster) Jones [He is to die at age 81 on 9/29/65 in San Antonio], and at least three others. Their presence may be one reason that the area is also called "Six Shooter Junction." It serves mainly to corral their horses (near a site which is presently First and Monroe Streets). In 1905 Texas Rangers continue to use Harlingen as a base. Stationed here are Capt. Bill McDonall, Blaze Delling, C.T. Ryan, Sam McKenzie, and Billie McCauley. Other Rangers soon to serve the Harlingen area are S.B. Carnes, and Ranger Craighead. C.T. Ryan will later be elected Sheriff of Cameron County.
1904 It is in this year that LonC. Hill, Jr. supposedly acquires the nickname "Mose". Apparently while cooking chow for the railroad engineers working on the surveys he is noted to be surrounded by the scrub brush. Jokingly someone remarks that he looks like "Moses in the bulrushes."
11/4/04 Near the end of 1903 a typhoid epidemic hits Brownsville. In 1904 the Hill family contracts five cases of the disease. It takes the life of forty year old Eustacia Dabney Hill. Their 25-month-old son George had died earlier that year of the same disease. At age 21 it is Miss Paul Hill who becomes surrogate mother to her younger siblings. Her unusual first name derives from the fact that her father had promised his best man that he would name his first child after him. After a life time of service to her family and community, she will die May 9, 1970 at age 86 in her E. Harrison Street home.
8/04 An early arrival to the fledgling town is Osco Morris. He comes one month after the first through train. What he does for a living in these times is unknown but by 1915 he is tending bar in one of Weller's saloons. Born in Searcy, AK 8/17/81 Morris was educated in common schools. He is a descendent of John F. and Emily Morris. He marries Lula Fay Lillard on 9/1/10. He becomes city marshal in April 1911 and serves in this capacity for 13 years. During WWI he assists in Liberty Bond drives. In the 1920s he is involved in real estate and farming and is, for nearly a decade, elected and re-elected as tax assessor and collector for the city. He is president of and a partner with T.P. Roberts and S.F. Ewing in the Harlingen Development Co., which is trying to dispose of over 1000 lots. His home is at 322 W.Buchanan Street. He dies in 1931 and together with his wife is buried in the Harlingen Cemetery.
1/1/05 The Hill family occupies the sizeable, but incomplete, new frame house. Only the three south rooms are roofed. It is located just east and on the same side of where the Casa de Amistad now stands. It is constructed by carpenters from Austin who also bring along material though some items come from Hill's Elizabeth and 11th Street hardware/implement store in Brownsville and the Cross Lumber Co. in that city. Initially the house had no inside water but later two large bath tubs were brought from Galveston to port Isabel and then by wagon to Harlingen. The house's shutters were fabricated in Brownsville.
To make room for activities at Fair Park it is moved years later across Fair Park Boulevard into a landscaped park setting. In 1992 it is moved to the Rio Grande Valley Museum complex for restoration and tours.
In its future years the home was to see many notables including the author Rex Beach, who uses it as a setting for his novel "Heart of the Sunset" which has Hill as one of the main characters in it. Others sharing its hospitality are William Jennings Bryan, Gov. Pat Neff, and Gen. Robert Lee Bullard.
In the summer of this year Hill has a black "mammy" to be a nanny for his children. Blacks are in the area but in low numbers. Most have helped construct the railroad lines, and some will remain to work for the railway company.
Everett Anglin, brother of Elmer, and from Gonzales, Texas, comes to the Valley as a Texas Ranger. After serving for several years he becomes a custom inspector along the border. In this period he is a participant in uncovering the notorious and famous Plan of San Diego. When the nation enters the Great War he raises a troop of cavalry, receives the commission of captain, and serves at Camp Stanley before being discharged. In 1926 he goes into the real estate business in Harlingen. The firm is Anglin Brothers and Berley. It promotes farm land and offers excursions to potential buyers.
Andrew Henry Goldammer of Fayette County, Texas comes to the Valley and first locates in Brownsville but then comes to Harlingen. Early on he constructs two buildings for the Letzerichs, four for Weller, and the home, which is removed in 1960, of Dr. C.W. Letzerich at 2nd and Tyler. He is estimated to have built 50% of the modern structures in Harlingen in the late teens and in the decade of the 1920s. Some of his structures include the Nelson Apartment House, and the large service station for its owner, R.W. Nelson; residences of Joe Gavito and C. A. Herron, an addition to the Harlingen Furniture Company building; and the Wilson Tract and Central Ward (Sam Houston) Schools. Goldammer will later have his offices in the Wittenbach Building, 119 South A and his home at 222 E. Van Buren. On 3/28/06 he marries Selma Weller in the First Baptist Church.. She is later to be a charter member of the Study Club and teach First Baptist Sunday School for 18 years. Mr. Goldhammer is to die at age 63 on 8/8/39. His wife lived to be 86 when she died on 12/1/69. Her Van Buren house is moved to 822 E. Polk where it is modernized and given a brick veneer.
The Secundio (Papa) Gutierrez family moves to a homestead at 313 W. Van Buren, Harlingen. The family has its origins in Amozoc Puebla, Mexico. Secundio's father, Manuel brought the family to Brownsville in 1862 due unrest in Mexico. Soon after he moved to northern Cameron County where he and his teenage son found work on different ranches. At age 22 Secundio was married by Father Keralum to Guadelupe (Lupita) Loya Loya. The ceremony took place on the El Mameado Ranch which was 2.7 miles north of FM 498 on an extension of FM 507. They settle in La Jarita, which is on FM 1420, and in 1876 started a succession of nine children. In 1890 they move to La Crucita Ranch. This ranch incorporated three smaller ones – La Crucita, El Gigante, and La India. Its initial acquisition was by Manuel Gutierrez. At this, their second home, they have four more children. The ranch encompasses Surveys 39, 40, 293, 294, and 295. It is bounded on the south by the Arroyo Colorado, the north by Garrett Road, the east by Tucker Road and the west by Altas Palmas Road. What is now Dilworth road cut through the ranch and led to a low water crossing of the arroyo and on to Turner Road leading to the Military Road. These provided a route to go to Brownsville. The serious drought of 1896 dries up the rangeland and kills their stock. The below-average region rainfall actually extended from 1893 through 1902. Survey 39 later fell into the hands of the Georgetown Railroad Company and eventually was subdivided by the developer F.Z. Bishop. Survey 40 came into the possession of G.S. Dorough and 294 Dayton Moses. 293 and 295 were bought by the Corpus Christi, San Diego and Rio Grande Narrow Gauge Railroad Company. Secundio after selling the ranch will close his general store in that area and late commence a bakery on W. Van Buren then open a dry goods and grocery store on W. Harrison. Rosaura Guttierez is the daughter of Eugenio, one of the 13 children. She is active on the Cameron County Historical Commission, among many other activities. Joseph Muniz, assistant Harlingen librarian, is the great grandson of Petra, the sister born the year before Eugenio was in 1885.
Amando Balli, 4 years old, is to reside in the area for 51 years. He is a barber by profession until his death at 55 on 7/14/60.
9/11/05 Shot over his right eye by Bill Hoy, Henry Putegnat of Brownsville dies in Harlingen.
1906(early) Mr. and Mrs. August H. Weller and their daughters move from Brownsville. They initially live in the railroad hotel until constructing a residence in 1908 at the corner of Harrison and Commerce on the lot the City Hall now occupies. Mary Augusta Bock Weller was born 5/26/62. In 1942 she will celebrate her 80th birthday. One daughter, Selma, is to marry Andrew Goldammer, the builder; Kathryne will marry H.D. Seago, who will become County Clerk; Maude will become the wife of Dr. C.W. Letzerich; and Agnes, Mrs. H.B. Verhelle. When the Seagos are married 6/18/12 in the First Presbyterian Church they are the first to be married in the sanctuary.
Perhaps a brother, H.H. (Harmon) Weller is later to move to Harlingen where he will have considerable business interests. Born in Willisburg, TX in 1865 he came to Brownsville in 1904. In 1937 he is working for the Utility Pre-Cooling Company. In 1942 he will move to Kingsville to live with daughter Mrs. E.K. Martin. Dying 8/21/42 he leaves six daughters and two sons.
It was in 1906 that Morris Edelstein, a Lithuanian immigrant, arrived in the Rio Grande Valley. He began peddling his wares door-to-door carrying his merchandise in two large suitcases. Within a few months he had purchased a burro and a second-hand buggy for $65. Settling in Brownsville, his business selling a variety of goods grew as the city prospered. He had expanded to Harlingen and McAllen by 1925. His first store here was north of Jackson Feed Store and when he moved on to his first Jackson location Jackson's store eventually absorbed the old Edelstein site. Within a few years Morris had thirteen stores from Brownsville to Eagle Pass. When he died in May 1967, this civic-minded and philanthropic citizen left his business in the capable hands of his family. Ruben Edelstein, who had served in the Field Artillery in WW II, was the first to assume the reins. In the 21st century the Edelstein store name is to be found on twelve stores in the Valley from Brownsville to Rio Grande City.
1907 Mr. and Mrs. Elmer W. Anglin arrive in Harlingen with their four small children. They come from Alpine, Texas, where they have resided for seven years. They were married on 3/8/1898 in Gonzales. They reside near the Hill complex until building a two story home north of the City Lake. On 1/2/18 they move into the new two-story wooden frame house they have constructed at 201 East Madison Street. The building is currently occupied by a law firm. The area to the west of them across the street is a campsite for tourists and homeseekers though overgrown with mesquite and brush. It will later become Bowie Park. Anglin takes over the management of properties and business ventures for Lon C. Hill. He is deeply involved in civic affairs for many years. He served on the school board, City Commission, was the city's first marshal, a deputy sheriff for more than 20 years, and performs as chief of police for 16 years. From 1939 through 1959 he is a justice of the peace. [For more information on the Anglin family see "The Harlingen Connection" link.]
Later making his home at 209 W. Buchanan with wife Olive, Lawson A. Anglin also arrives here this year. He will later go into the general insurance business.
The W.Z. Weems family also comes to the Valley this year. He is involved in land clearing and canal building in the Mercedes area before soon relocating to Harlingen and eventually working with Lon C. Hill. His daughter Lillian will marry John Raymond Baldridge in 1912, teach school for a long time, and be principal of the Dishman School. In 1927 she will be selling real estate from her office in the Gateway Nursery. She is also to be noted as a writer and historian of the city. The Weems family takes pride in being among colonizer Stephen F. Austin's First 300 Families of Texas.
Upon moving from the business district, Texas-born Mr. and Mrs. Francisco Valdez construct a house at 1202 South H. They arrived here in 1904.
James F. Hathaway, a machinist, buys acreage for a residence for his family on what will later become Stuart Place Road. He later helps to install the pump plant on the river for Hill and contracts for land clearing.
Jessie Wilson Shirar is here this year. She will later become a dressmaker with the Wiser Shop at 110 North 1st Street.
Elvira Ledesma is born here this year to a pioneer family. She will have seven children with her husband Manuel before he dies in 1980. When she passes on 9/13/88 she leaves behind four daughters and Harlingen sons, Eduado, Basilio, and Margarito.
Cirilo Rodriguez and Salome Toscano, Sr. are to others who have taken up residence.
At this time S. J. Ellis is serving as Lon Hill's professional car driver/chauffer. Hill's vehicle is an open Buick with a right side steering wheel. It is affectionately known as the Gray Ghost.
1908 At the age of two Cecelia Pickett, later Sommers, moves to Harlingen with her parents. She is a Stuart Place High School graduate in 1927. She dies in Los Angeles, CA 12/6/59. Two of her graduating classmates are Eldena Rebman and Maurine Crockett.
James H. Ewing comes to town to work for the South Texas Lumber Company.
In this year Dr. Magee arrives and becomes the first doctor to take up residence in the town.
By 12/08 S.L. Moore has arrived. By 1930 he will be manager of the E. Harrison Filling Station and live with his wife Mae at 1510 E. Harrison.
1909 This year sees the arrival of the Levi E. and Ed E. Snavely families, the Earl Wetmores, the McDonalds, "Captain" Patterson, Dr. D.B. McGehee, and Dr. C.W. and Dr. A.M. Letzerich.
Mrs. E.E. (Bertha) D. Snavely is to die in Combes at age 89 on 6/3/62. She had been born 7/25/72 in Summerville, PA and had married E.E. in Kay County, OK before coming to the Valley in 1909. She was a charter member of the First Methodist Church, Harlingen but in 1937 changed to the First Methodist Church, Combes when her husband died. She leaves her sons L.M. of Brownsville and F.E. of Combes and one daughter, Mrs. Opal Lewis of Combes. Mrs. Lewis was at one time superintendent of the Stuart Place School.
Miller V. Pendleton of Gonzales, TX and his family arrive. He is cashier and general manager of the new Harlingen State Bank. When the city government is formed he serves as City Commissioner April 1912 to May 1913 and Mayor, 1914-1918. Pendleton Park was later named in his honor.
Anna Margaret Sweeney Adams and her husband Elijah Harvey Adams come this year from Houston. He is Canadian and she from Louisiana. There children are Clara, Beulah, Sarah Mae, Helen, Catherine, Annette, Caulton, and Elijah Burton. Grandchildren in the Valley are Earl, Harvey, and Harriet Adams. The former two, along with great-grandson Elijah Keith Adams and Harvey's son-in-law Dale Misenhimer, operate Adams Farms in the Combes area.
2/1/09 Harlingen has 53 individuals who pay their poll taxes.
3/09 The J.J. Wiles family moves into acreage bought north of the townsite.
5/29/09 Dr. D.B. McGehee is the only medical doctor in town as Mrs. J.J. Wiles gives birth to her son Clyde. The doctor lives in a former large barn now known as "Dorough House." The site is currently an apartment house at the corner of Fourth and Polk Streets.
9/09 H.D. Seago, a native of Jerseyville, Illinois, comes first in 1906 to Fort Bend, Texas, then in 1908 to Harlingen. Here he later works up to manager of the South Texas Lumber Company branch but then moves on to open a mercantile store. In 1924 he runs and is elected as Cameron County Clerk. He marries Kathryne Weller of the pioneer Harlingen family. They build a home in Brownsville after his election. He is re-elected in 1926.
5/09 J.L. Spenser is already here and will become a painting contractor with a residence at 117 E. Monroe. His competition will be B.A. Philpott, here in February or earlier.
9/14/09 J.S. Hopkins, contractor, is in business and later will reside at 1222 S. E Street.
12/10/09 An industrial accident kills seventeen year old Robert Keen Weems. While processing sugarcane syrup in his father's factory he slips into a large vat of boiling syrup and is scalded to death. There is no cemetery laid out for the new town. Hill is telegraphed in St. Louis and designates a site which is on Mexico Street (now F) close to the arroyo. This will later become the City Cemetery, and a Texas Historical Commission marker will provide the story of its beginnings. W.H. Wheaton assists in the funeral as does Mrs. A.H. Weller. The former is a veterinarian who came to Harlingen in 1905 to work with Lon C. Hill. An early Runyon photo appears to show a wooden false front building on the south of Jackson very close to Commerce Street intersection. The building appears to bear the name of Dr. Wheaton, who was married to Minnie Belchner, and advertises drugs. Joseph Ogan is soon to become the second individual buried in the cemetery.
1909 Charles Wirt (C.W). Clift comes to Harlingen from Hastings, OK. He is an early builder and developer of the area. In his long career he has interests in cotton gins, grain elevators, heavy construction, citrus and cotton farms, and extensive real estate. He will marry the daughter of Dr. and Mrs. James Pierre Wilson. He is a charter member of the First Methodist Church whose later chapel is named for the Clift family. When he dies at age 92 on 7/22/61 he leaves his wife Goldie as a widow.
Anna Margaret Sweeney Adams and her husband Elijah Harvey Adams come this year from Houston. He is Canadian and she from Louisiana. There children are Clara, Beulah, Sarah Mae, Helen, Catherine, Annette, Caulton, and Elijah Burton. Grandchildren in the Valley are Earl, Harvey, and Judy Adams. The former two are farmers in the Combes area.
By November the railroad has brought to town John Bullard. He and his wife Sallie will live at 402 E. Harrison.
E.W. Patterson will be here before year end. Later he will become city tax collector and live with his wife Maude C. at 109 E. Pierce.
Other individuals who arrived in this decade and played out a life here at least until the year 1960 were: Collie D. DeLisle (1900), L.G. Garcia (1904), Cleo Wood (1906), Juanita Serna (1907), Jesus Salazar (1909), and Opal S. Lewis (1909). Julio Flores, Sr., a native of San Luis Potosi also becomes a Harlingenite in 1909. This retired MoPac employee will die here 2/5/75 at age 73 leaving behind his wife, five sons, and eight daughters. Preceding them all here was Alejandra Rivera, who was apparently born in a vicinity ranch in 1890.
At age 36 Alfred Chew arrives in town this year. He will become a real estate agent by 1930 and then a rental agent. In the early 30s he resides at 518 E. Harrison. On 2/24/74 he will celebrate his 101 birthday.
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1903 The children of La Providencia Ranch hands are taught by Miss Margarita Villareal (later she becomes Mrs. G.M.(Willie) Lozano. Their son G.M. Lozano, Jr. will marry another early arrival to the Harlingen scene. This is Ida Priestly, who arrived here in 1922, as her father with ancestors from Clarksville, TX takes up tenant farming in the Rangerville area. In 2002 she is to celebrate her 86th birthday.) Having been graduated after eleven years of schooling in Brownsville Margarita is qualified to teach. Instruction is in English. Later the school moves into the second floor of the Pioneer Building. This serves some of the Hispanic children until the school district builds a facility.
9/05 Hill builds a small frame schoolhouse near his new home. It opens with the seven Hill children as pupils; three children (Frank, John and Elizabeth) of Hill's sister and brother-in-law –Mr. and Mrs. J.C. McBee; the children (Lynn and Etta) of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas L. Jones, who had accompanied Hill from Beeville; Henry Bell; and later Kathryne Weller, daughter A.H. Weller. This is 14 students in all to be taught by W.A. Francis (1905-07). He will someday head the English Department at Texas A&I College in Kingville. He is to be followed by Miss Johnnie Phipps in the 1907-08 school year and Lillian Weems, later Baldridge, in 1908-09. According to Mrs.Baldridge her students were: Kathryne Weller (Mrs. H. D. Seago), Mary Jones (Mrs. H. E. Bennett), Lynn Jones, Henry Bell, Ida Hill (Mrs. H. K. Morrow), Lon (Mose) C. Hill, Jr., John and Frank McBee, Gordon Hill, John Hill, Annie Rooney Hill, Hickman Hill, Sunshine Hill (Mrs. M.L. Caul), and Elizabeth McBee (Mrs. W.L. Darnell).
1907-09 Miss Jesusa Garcia, later Mrs. Cirilo Rodriguez, teaches 12 to15 Hispanic students in a small house outfitted to be a school room. It is on the property her father, Pancho Garcia, has bought from Hill in the 300 block of West Harrison. Mrs. Rodriguez is to die at age 94 on 11/1/84 leaving four surviving daughters.
10/5/09 The Harlingen Independent School District Board of Trustees holds its organizational meeting in the office of the Morrow Brothers Lumber Company. The board consists of John E. Snavely (chairman), C.F. Perry, H.N. Morrow, J.A. Card, R.S. Chambers, W.E. Hollingsworth, and W.H. Kilgore. The first school site purchased was the Alamo School site, west of the railroad tracks between what is now South E and F Streets. Lon C. Hill donated half the site and the District purchased the other half, according to Warren W. Ballard, later business manager of the schools. Miss Anna Dixon, later Mrs. Clark of Austin, teaches at the school for Hispanics.
1908-09 The number of school children is still small enough to list. They are: Allie Hathaway (Mrs. Harold Looney), Auro Hathaway (later Buster), Rhubena Hathaway (Mrs. Dallas Ingle), Peter Hathaway, J.D. Dorough, Bunny Dorough, Moody Dorough (Mrs. Flagg), LeRoy Hoffman, Roland Ogan, Lois Ogan, Grady Ferguson, Lucie Mary Weems, Vivian Barbee, Archie Barbee, Lucille Barbee, Luella Barbee, Quinton Barbee, Emmett Anglin, Wyatt Clark, Earl Waterwall, Laura Lockhart, Basil Watwood, and Jesus ?.
1909 Mrs. George Pletcher, mother of George Pletcher, Jr., who would enter the nursery business and become mayor of Harlingen, along with Mrs. Wiles' sister Eula were school teachers in the Adventist Church building. Her brother H.C. Ware and his wife owned a home next door to the old Adventist Church building, which was later to become a community building.
One student, I.E. (Renus) Snavely, of this period recalls that before the first brick schoolhouse was built classes were held in a succession of places. These were the Adventist Church building, which the Adventists never got to utilize, the Baptist Tabernacle, a red brick building on Harrison Street, and two buildings on the downtown blocks of Jackson. One of these was upstairs over a saloon with a pool hall next door.
1909-10 Lillian Elizabeth Weems is teaching at the Wilson School. The next year she will teach in McAllen followed by a year in La Lomita. She will marry John Raymond Baldridge on 9/15/12, but he is to die 12/19/16 leaving Lillian and a two year old daughter Ramona. Her only sister, Lucie Weems, later Jackson, will be graduated from Sam Houston State Teachers College and Texas A & I. She too will teach in Harlingen and be principal of Alamo School before moving elsewhere. She will die in the 1930s.
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9/05 The little school house which Hill built also is used for Sunday School. Periodically a circuit rider or missionary minister provides a service.
1906 A.T. White, pastor of the Brownsville Methodist Mission Church, and W.H. Petty, Baptist State Missionary of San Benito, occasionally hold services on Sunday afternoons. The latter would walk along the railroad track to Harlingen and back to San Benito.
1908 John Snavely, a farmer and leader of the Quaker faith arrives. He later will be named superintendent of the Union Sunday School, which holds classes in the Tabernacle on Van Buren. The Union Church is the outgrowth of people of several denominations to have Protestant services despite the lack of otherwise organized parishes.
3/28/09 Ten Baptist Christians of Harlingen led by two Baptist ministers organize the Missionary Baptist Church which is to become the First Baptist Church. The following year they will build a small, flat-roofed building at 317 E. Van Buren. Brother Rev. W.H. Petty is the first pastor. In future years A.L. Brooks, a strong lay member, is to provide firm leadership according to Frank Martin, who came in 1911.
5/31/09 In an appeal to a group of Seminary Graduates in Richmond, Virginia, in describing the potential of Harlingen, Dr. S.L. Morris said, " Now this rich country is a crude frontier where people who are pouring into the country are laying the foundation for great wealth; but there is little opportunity for organized religious worship—Here is the greatest opportunity for Christian service to be found anywhere."
It was Samuel McPheeters Glascow who arrived to take charge in answer to the above appeal. He described Harlingen in 1909 as a mud town, no paved streets, or roads, or sidewalks—coal oil lamps, not a plumber in the entire Valley—burros, or horses, or mules were the chief means of transportation, and he estimated the population to be about 200.
1909 A settlement of fourteen families of the Seventh Day Adventist church convinces the State Mission Board of Fort Worth of that church to proceed with the erection of a house of worship, the first of its kind for that specific purpose. This first church building in Harlingen was to be a little one on the northeast corner of 4th and Jackson. Construction materials are purchased from the South Texas Lumber Co. on 5/5/09. The Rev. Mr. Montgomery and his wife were living in a tent, when the church was being built. A tropical storm [perhaps that of June 30,1909 which came ashore north of Brownsville] that year partially collapsed the incomplete church building. Both the minister and his wife were injured. Though his wife recovered, the pastor died of his injuries. For this reason the Adventists never completed their building and, in fact most members of the colony later left for California. By public conscription, the building was later completed so people in Harlingen might have another place to worship. It was shared by several denominations. Later the structure was sold to the First Christian Church in 1918 for $400. Improvements to it cost $1,500. It was later sold to the Grace English Lutheran Church for $2,500.
Before the above little building could be put to use, the first Union Church services with improvised benches were held in the Hill Building prior to its completion. During the summer of 1909, it was a brush arbor constructed near the Mooreland Hotel that served for the interdenominational services.
1909 (fall) A small square Tabernacle building is erected at 517 E. Van Buren. It has a raised platform at one end and instead of windows has hinged panels on its sides. These can be raised or lowered depending on the weather. The building is used for Protestant services and also houses the first public school classes in town. Sam F. Marsh, Baptist minister who lives on "Canal Three", preaches here.
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1906 Mrs. A.H. Weller organizes the Harlingen Cemetery Association.
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1904 Upon the establishment of the town with its businesses and residences, the streets for many years leave much to be desired after rains. Garrison Keillor describes a similar situation best when he writes "…4th day of rain and we are up to our knees in mire and a man can't walk cross the street but he may have to abandon his boots halfway across--this western soil, so highly advertised as an agricultural paradise, is clay and loam in the exact proportion needed to make thick soup with only a little water needed—a man is a prisoner in his house, surrounded by impassable swamp."
5/17/05 The first column of news notes from Harlingen are published in the weekly Brownsville Herald.
9/3/09 The Arroyo Colorado railroad bridge at Harlingen is damaged by high waters and train service to Brownsville is halted.
1909 (and earlier) Lacking a proper jail, alleged law breakers are chained to trees at several site before adjudication or movement to Brownsville. Across the street from what was to become the Rialto Theater was a shack containing Sam Walgreen's store. Behind it Rangers corralled their horses and a mesquite within it was used to secure prisoners.
This tree and others gained notoriety as Prisoners' Trees. On 4/1/52 an ancient landmark mesquite tree at the vacant lot on the corner of South 2nd and Van Buren Streets, 201 E. Van Buren to be exact, across from the City Hall is knocked down to make room for construction. It was the last of the "prison trees." The lot is the site of a building for Lloyd E. Stiernberg.
The summer is a disastrous one with two hurricanes and an August flood.
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1910 The city's population early in the year is estimated to range from 150 to 350, but the census puts it as 300.
1/1/10 Town lot sales are made to Osco Morris, H.L. Hopkins, Mildred J. McCasland, of St. Louis, J.H. Towle, Stewart S. Caldwell, Mrs. Katie Roever, Seymour P. Eaton Jr., and Mrs. Mary Jane Springer. Most lots go for $250 each, but three range in price from $300 to $350. The standard lots have 50' frontage and 140' depth. By the end of the year there are 92 homes in the city. Early on the Fischer-Schein Co. bills itself as exclusive agents for townsite sales and has Fred E. McCasland as its special agent. They point out there are no taxes for 1909. They advertise the lots at $50 to $500 and "on easy monthly payments."
W.A. Kilgore is credited with having the first real estate office in a one room frame building with a porch. Such a building is shown in an early photo placing it on Commerce across from the railroad tracks.
12/24/10 Developers Edward H. Smith and William Morrison dedicate land northwest and across the arroyo from Harlingen to the public. On 1/13/11 the town of Rio Hondo is laid out. The name means "deep river."
1911 City population is said to have grown by 500 people. Thirty odd frame residences and business have recently been built.
4/25/11 The Harlingen Board of Trade notes city improvements including $300,000 sugar mill, $35,000 cotton compress, $25,000 ice plant, $5,000 cotton gin, $20,000 pressed brick plant, new Methodist church $4,300, waterworks reservoir $5,000, canal extension $60,000, two brick schoolhouses $34,000, steel bridge over the Arroyo $17,000, two miles of graded streets $1,500, and drainage into the Arroyo $2,200 for a total of $509,000. The bridge is a one lane one at what is now F Street. To go to San Benito this bridge is the only way to cross the arroyo without descending into it. The Methodist Church sanctuary is a wooden one which was located at precisely the same location as the First Methodist Church stands today on Harrison.
5/24/11 Water from the Rio Grande comes via the canal into, what later will be named City Lake, a low place called a "chasco." It is also called by locals "Laguna Las Vacas" because cows of the village often wander into it only to become mired in its mud. The local canal branches from near Little Creek and runs north on 13th Street then west into the lake. Later the 13th Street portion of the canal is placed underground.
1911 Elmer G. Johnson commences his colonization work in Willacy County. He started with the Turner Tract west of Harlingen (adjacent to the present Bass Blvd.) of 15,000 acres then an adjacent 10,000 acres and still later the Santa Rosa Ranch and Farm properties of 22,000. In 1934 he purchases the 110 year old Stillman properties comprising 800 city lots and 400 acres of non-platted land in Brownsville. A native of Minnesota, he makes his home at 110 E. Polk Street, Harlingen.
6/12/11 For re-sale, speculation, or other reasons Hill buys farm lots 1,14,15, 18, 25, 26, 27,28,35,36 in Subdivision C (part of surveys 27 and 300)
5/10/12 Hill gives an interview in Kansas City to the Kansas City Star. He provides the reporter with the following: 2,500 inhabitants [in Harlingen]; sold land the last two months for $2 million and still owns 90,000 in the Rio Grande Valley valued at $4 million.
5/28/12 Whether it is truly finalized or not, The Daily Sentinel of Brownsville reports the Col. Lon C. Hill has sold to E.A. Fox of the Fox Realty Co. of Brownsville the townsite of Harlingen. In reality he likely contracted with him to sell the property, for Fox left soon thereafter for northern and eastern cities. The paper expounded "A good man with a good proposition should have no trouble in making things go, and The Sentinel predicts that under the guidance of Mr. Fox, Harlingen will come into its own as the big city at the junction. The Harlingen land is unsurpassed; it lies at the end of the main line of the Frisco and is an ideal place to live. The people of that city are lively ones, and there is no reason why Harlingen should not grow."
6/8/12 A 50,000 gallon steel tank for Harlingen waterworks –largest in the Valley –on a concrete base is constructed; delivery lines are being buried. This black-painted tank is located in what is now the city parking lot at the southeast corner of 1st and Jefferson Streets. In 1915 the photographer Robert Runyon will use the tower's platform to take panoramic views of the city.
2/13/13 The estate of George M. Briggs, who died 12/9/12, sells to Thomas F. Lee and the Lee Land Company and R.T. and W.D. Stuart large acreages west of Harlingen. This will become known as Stuart Place.
7/12/13 An Intercoastal Waterway rally is held in Harlingen.
8/10/13 The Lon C. Hill Town and Improvement Company is reorganized as a corporation.. Its directors are Hill, Dr. S.H. Bell and James R. Dougherty (Bee County), P.E. Blalack (San Antonio), and John H. Brooks (Beaumont and Jefferson County). The capital stock is $200,000 in $100 shares.
10/15/15 Representing Harlingen as delegates to the Intercoastal Canal meeting in Houston are Mr. and Mrs. Lindsay Waters and Mr. and Mrs. A.H. Weller.
3/25/16 Lot 1 & 2, Block A , Lake Side are being developed.
1917 An irrigation development map shows the Arroyo Front Gardens Subdivision with 10 large lots. This area between the Arroyo Colorado and the Resaca de los Fresnos and east of Rangerville Road will later be named the Lon C. Hill Subdivision. Over the years, it will be very slow in developing.
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5/27/10 The first money to be placed in the new town government coffer was from a $1.00 fine imposed on Gordon Hill. He was cited for allowing one of his hogs to freely roam the town.
10/10 This month T.E. Cowart of Brooklyn, N.Y. and his Austin associates buy a section of unirrigated land four miles east of the Arroyo Colorado from I.B. McFarland for $32,000; also 160 acres of improved land north of town from J.L. Adams for $16,000. After five months work and with 20 days more to completion, Judge R.E. Brooks and Associates of Houston are to complete the Harlingen Land and Water Company canal to irrigate 4,000 acres adjoining Harlingen to the east. Gordon Hill is one associate and has a financial interest.
Albert S. Johnston is here by April and takes up farming. He and his wife Maria will by 1930 reside at 310 W. Polk.
1/11 S.J. Smith is here, and his residence at the very end of Washington Street where he resides with his wife Martha indicates that he is likely farming.
7/11 R.S. Dilworth sells his 530 acre ranch west of Harlingen for $200 an acre.
1912 The Rio Grande and Coast Truck Growers' Association is situated in Harlingen.
It is this year that O.A. and Ida Mae Cowart come to Harlingen from Caddo, TX where oil had been discovered on their farm. Ida Mae's brother, Ed Carey, was already farming here and praised the area. In 1919 the Cowarts purchase property after a land excursion. The site is between North First Street and Seventh Street. Here O.A. begins raising dairy cows and delivering milk by wagon to Harlingen residents. By 1920 he is also raising cabbage and receiving that year $100 per ton. Coming with them in 1912 is daughter Myrtle Leona, who was born in Caddo, TX 8/5/1905. The big swimming hole in the Arroyo Colorado at Harrison was a fun place for her generation. She went to the Central Ward School on Jackson and was among the first to be graduated from the new high school on Tyler. She is to attend Baylor for a short time before working in California, 1927-28. In 1928 she was to marry Cecil Lynn SoRell, originally from San Marcos and who would precede her in death in 1983. By 1941upon her father's death they would occupy a family home on the New Combes Highway. Cecil with the encouragement and knowledge of Ed Carey would first open a Sinclair service station at 101 E. Harrison. The block glass building set at an angle exists today on the site. Cecil would then construct the modern Sinclair station at 522 N. Commerce. It has been restored to its 1940's appearance by Bill DeBrooke. When Myrtle died at age 100 on 3/22/06, this First Baptist Church member since 1923, left behind son Cecil Ray SoRell of Combes and daughter Patricia Jane SoRell Williams of Harlingen and numerous descendents.
3/26/12 In promoting farm land sales at Palmitel Farms and Arroyo Front Estates, the Rio Grande Land Corporation of Harlingen and Kansas City notes in its brochure that L.S. Ross, O. Aultman, and S. C. Moore of Harlingen have been raising cabbage. Crops presented as being grown are staples, cotton, corn, alfalfa, sugarcane, and broom corn. They note that in 1911 the hill Sugar mill purchased cane for $4.31/ton based on the daily sugar market in New Orleans.
1913 This year will see a national economic depression.
9/20/13 An Oklahoma corporation with A.B. Chapek, H.G. McKeever, and Isadore Mantz of Enid, Oklahoma as principles buys 20,000 acres of the Ojo de Agua tract north of Harlingen. The Brownsville Herald reports that their San Dominic Colonization Co. will offer land to Catholic Germans and Bohemians.
In this year John Anthony Flanagan, of Worcester MA, will serve in the 3rd Cavalry in Brownsville and later the 90th Armored Division in 1917 in Germany. He will then own and operate farms here. This Lewis Lane resident was a member of St. Anthony's Catholic Church and the Knights of Columbus when he passes 10/18/62 at age 72. He leaves his widow Mary Sophie.
It is the year 1913 that H.B. and Betty Gamble Payne come to the Wilson Tract. Mrs. Payne was born 8/10/67 in Balesville, AR and married 1/21/86. These Methodists had six children. He died 10/11/25 and she in October of that year.
Also coming to this area on 6/22/13 are Carl Anthony Tanberg, his wife Thea, and daughters Maurine and Dorothy. This family of Norwegian ethnicity departs from Eau Claire, Wisconsin with plans to grow grapefruit and farm in south Texas. They are met at the Harlingen train station by Raymond Wright, who hauls them in a mule team-pulled wagon to their homesite. Wright is the rancher to the south of the Tanberg property. The grubbing contractor has just finished clearing their land. On it they put up a military style tent with a wooden floor to serve as their first abode. Over the years the family adds children Robert Lund (delivered by Dr. C.W. Letzerich with nurse Mrs. Jewell assisting), Norman, Walter, Helen, Mary, and Carl Lee.
This same year James A. "Cabbage" Adams began farming here. Having come to Texas in 1881 he and his wife Ala Indtoe moved here from Synder. When this Cavalry Baptist member was to die at age 81 on 8/1/50 he leaves behind his wife, one daughter, and sons C.H., C.E. and Roy E. His nickname derives from the fact that each year he placed some of his land in cabbage cultivation. A 1924 photo will show him, his wife and small son Carlos in front of their house said to be near the Harlingen airport, at the time west of the end of 13th Street. Near the farm house is a citrus orchard with about five year old trees and a tall windmill pumping water from a well.
It is also 1913 when Mr. and Mrs. William L. Oler come to farm on a tract three miles north of Harlingen. With them are son Harvey and two year old niece Emogene Oler whom they raise. She will graduate from HHS in 1929 and later become its head librarian in the 1930s-40s. In WW II she will marry Roy Grill and move away. Son Harvey when he passes away is buried in the Harlingen Cemetery.
By 1914 the Wilson Tract area is estimated to have a population of 200, a weekly newspaper, several general stores, and a publishing house.
1/1/14 John B. James, a native of Jonesboro, TN, having been born there 9/16/1874, comes to his newly purchased farm in the Wilson Tract. Since 1910 he and his wife, Mary Callie Gaines James whom he married on 8/18/1895 in Maryville, TN, had been farming in Hunt County near Commerce, TX. In 1918 he is to purchase a garage in Harlingen. J.B. and his wife Collie reside at 714 N. A Street from which he carries out his farming endeavors. In 1940 the James move from Harlingen proper to be closer to their properties. James will serve on the school board in the mid-1920s. By 1926 he and a partner will have started a bus line, but after 1927 it isn't operating. He returns to farming in 1928. When he dies 3/11/59 he leaves behind seven surviving children, 20 grandchildren and 27 great-grandchildren. Daughter Nell James was among the first to be graduated from Harlingen High School.
1914 W.T. Hodge moves to Harlingen and in 1916 establishes himself as a shipper of fruit and vegetables. In this first year he ships only 58 carloads of produce. He was born in Sparta TN, 6/6/86 to Jeff and Martha Shockley Hodge. After being educated there he joined his father in the produce business, eventually moving to Fort Worth in 1903 and continuing in the produce business. He engaged in this same trade in Oklahoma City for six years before coming to the Valley. In 1921 he ships the first carload of grapefruit out of the Valley. This citrus fruit industry pioneer becomes, in 1924 the head of the Valley Fruit Exchange, a large corporation. By 1926 he ships 1,070 carloads of various produce from the Harlingen area. In 1927 it ships 1,400 carloads all over the country as well as to Canada. In 1929 he completes the erection of two packing sheds. The Harlingen one has a capacity of five carloads and a floor space of 52,000 square feet in its tile and brick structure while the Rogerville one handle three carloads in its 4,500 square feet in a sheet metal building. Hodge married Estella Hilburn of Fort Worth in that city on May 27, 1906. By 1929 they have daughters Mildred and Eunice. As well as being an Elks member, he is vice president of the Lower Rio Grande Valley Shippers Association.
3/12/14 Harlingen farmers want to take over the canal. They would issue $300,000 in bonds. A petition carries the names of 162 of the 258 land owners in the proposed district of 31-40,000 acres
5/6/14 Harlingen area farmers to vote on May 8 on $700,000 irrigation district bond issue. It carries when voted on this date and elected directors are A.S. Lowe, S.S. Cummings, J.P. Wilson, Gordon Hill, and G.S. Rhoades.
5/13/14 The Cameron County Commissioner's Court establishes Cameron County Irrigation District No. 1.
8/14 The Rio Grande and Gulf Association is established at Harlingen with 800-1000 members attending. Its purpose is to establish a "unit marketing" system for the sale of commodities and thereby maximize returns for produce.
12/13/14 The Cameron County Irrigation District No.1 is organized and will take over the system owned by the Harlingen Land and Water Company. On 12/29/14 The HL&W Co. conveys the pumps and canals to the district for $400,000. An additional $350,000 is voted for improvements. On 5/31/19 it changes its name to the Cameron County Water Improvement District No.1. $190,000 is expended to change the old steam engines to De La Vergne Diesel engines. In 1929 the power for the pumping is converted to Westinghouse Electric motors. In 1945 it is renamed as Cameron County Water Control and Improvement District No. 1 and in 1978 it becomes Harlingen Irrigation District Cameron County No.1. It will come to serve 38,025 acres of irrigated cropland and have authorized water rights for 39,574 acres. This will yield 98,232.5 acre-feet of water per annum. In 2002 it will have 3,309 accounts. By this time the major crop acreages are 10,850 for grain sorghum, 10,000 for cotton, and 7,000 for sugarcane.
1915 James W. Harrington arrives to take up farming. Born in Blanco County, TX in 1873, he is to marry Helen Harriet Smith who will have given him nine surviving children when he dies in April 1925. One includes Mrs. Morris Chaudoin. He is a Methodist.
Roy W. Jackson also arrives in the Valley this year. Born 8/18/96 in Jacksboro, TX, he becomes prominent in the cattle and ranching business along with commercial cattle feeding. This WWI veteran is to die in Harlingen at age 66 on 1/9/63 leaving his wife Anne Farrier Jackson, one son and one daughter.
9/26-28/16 After being stabbed in the hand, Lon C. Hill's son, John kills a Mexican on the Armstrong Ranch being managed by the Hills.
9/29/16 Gordon Hill is clearing farm blocks 154 and 155. Plowing and irrigation commences on them in May 1918.
1916 Otis E. Stuart comes to the Valley. He and his brother, R.T. Stuart [he acquainted himself with the Valley as early as 1912], later develop and promote Stuart Place with its 10,000 acres, probably the largest individually owned agricultural and citrus fruit property in South Texas. Brand names are Stuart's Premium and Stuart's Tree Ripened. Its two packing sheds handling products have a total of 10,000 square feet. R.T. is a resident of Oklahoma City and president of the Mid-Continental Life Insurance Co. (of Oklahoma). In 1918 O.E. is selling land via the American Land Corp. By 1930 it is the American Land Co. with I.W. Wine, manager.
1916 The Lee Land Company publishes a series of brochures to promote the attractiveness of the area. It maintains offices in the Railway Exchange Building in St. Louis.
1917 Here this year John Thomas Hester takes up farming and the management of orchards. He dies at age 81 on 8/13/60 leaving his wife Elnora, Mrs. C.H. (Mildred) Carden, Mrs. Loretta Young, and William R. Hester, all of Harlingen and others elsewhere.
Coming this same year is David Henry Gill. This pioneer farmer will reside on Grimes Road, dying at age 55, leaving his wife Florence.
Prior to 1917 Thomas F. Lee purchases a sizeable parcel of land just west of Harlingen with the intention of subdividing it. To attract buyers he builds an impressive two-story community clubhouse at "Leeland." When the Stuarts later purchase Lee's holdings, the building becomes the Stuart Place Community Club and the site of many social activities. It is still there at 7901 West Business 83. By 1917 Thomas F. Lee is heavily promoting sales of his farm land west of Harlingen. His Lee Land Company has offices in what he calls Leeland (now the Stuart Place area south of West Business 83), Dallas, Oklahoma City, and St. Louis. He is utilizing excursions to generate sales. One brochure exclaims "Our luxurious private steel Pullman car leaves the Union Station, St. Louis, the first and third Tuesdays of each month for the Home of the Golden Fruit--Leeland--the heart of the Rio Grande Valley." His brochure titles are "The Magic Valley", "Telephone for Rain", "Golden Fruit", Harvest at Christmas Time", and "My Southern Home."
7/17 Despite the loss of his mill due to fire, Hill hopes to harvest 6,000 tons of sugarcane from his 400 acres in that crop.
9/30/18 Harlingen Irrigation District to increase pumping capacity to 266,000gpm.
This year Antonio Quintanilla comes here and takes up farming. After living at 822 Pierce this Templo Bethel member dies 8/16/62 at age 69 leaving his widow Petra and sons Jose and Abel.
11/1/18 From his Dallas office F.Z. Bishop issues his second issue of the 39 page brochure titled "Harlingen Irrigated Farm Lands." [For more information on Bishop, see "F.Z.Bishop, Harlingen Developer" link.] The brochure will be updated at least two more times with additional updated photographs. Wimberly McLeod, who will later strike out on his own, is a salesperson for Bishop. Bishop is still around in 1926, this time with a Harlingen office as general agent for the Amarillo Townsite and Land Company. He advertises "The safest investment in the face of the earth—they are increasing in Values DAILY. We have City Property, Irrigated and Unirrigated Lands."
1918 is the year Samuel James came to Harlingen and set up a citrus grove, now the Woodlawn Addition. He had come to the Valley in 1908. This resident later of 421 E. Washington Street also operated a nursery for a time. A member of St. Anthony's Catholic Church, he was to die at age 90 on 5/6/52.
In this year Lon C. Hill sells his La Sal Vieja Ranch in northern Hidalgo County to Dr. C. M. Corbett, a Bureau of Animal Industries veterinarian. The property contained one of two famous salt lakes. When Hill had obtained this property in the San Salvatore del Tule Grant is unknown. In 1987 Michael Corbett of Harlingen takes over the operation of the ranch for the Corbett and Green families.
It is also in the year 1918 that Myra Deeder and Fred Crawford Doane arrive to take up farming in Stuart Place. He will farm citrus and other crops here and around Combes. With them is daughter Margaret Louise (born 7/13/06 in Pikes County, IL) and perhaps sister Wilma and brothers, Kitchel Fred and Kermit Carl. Margaret will attend Stuart Place School then go on to obtain a teaching degree from South Texas State Teachers College in Kingsville where she will meet and marry Gustav E. Miller. He will die in 1974, and she, an active member of the First Christian Church, at age 99 on 5/21/06. Surviving are her daughter Annelle Doane Clausen and son Bruce. Annelle is well known for her genealogy and history activities including a weekly column in the Valley Morning Star.
1919 Frank Lawrence Crown arrives to become a farmer with
extensive holding both north and south of Harlingen. One farm will later be
subdivided by John McKelvey into the Laurel Park-Parkwood area, another will
take the name Crown Heights, and a third will contain the Beck-Williams
Addition. From Morrison IL the first Presbyterian will die here at age 71 on
10/25/61, leaving his wife Ina of Harlingen but no others here.
This year Stanley Crockett, assisted by his son Stanley B. Crockett, sets out
1000 acres of citrus west of Harlingen. By 1970 the son will operate the largest
citrus nursery in the state.
4/21/19 An agricultural land sale consummated this date provides a good example of land price appreciation. In 1902 and 1903 Lon C. Hill had acquired thousands of acres for $1.25 to $2.50 an acre. On 3/29/09 the Harlingen Land and Water Co., of which Hill is president, sells 287.64 acres of Surveys No. 26, 27 and 300 to J. S. Massie for $12,307.80 or $42.79/acre. Ten years later on 3/11/19 Massie and his wife Mary sell 41.25 acres of this parcel to bachelor Gus Elliott for $4,950 or $120/acre. On 4/21/19 Elliott sells it to Levi Elmer Snavely for $8,512.50 or 206.36/acre.Even discounting Hill's original purchase price over a ten year period the per acre value has risen 482% or 48.2% per year.
5/15/19 The Cameron County Council of Agriculture and Home Economics is formed at Harlingen meeting.
This same year Wiley Edgar and Adella Carey arrive in Harlingen with their 20 year old son James Edmond (Ed) Carey. The following year Ed returns to Throckmorton, TX to marry and bring his bride, Monterey McCay, to Harlingen. He then builds and furnishes for her a two story California style house where Ed Carey Drive now meets Expressway 77/83. He plants 200 acres of citrus in the area and later also grows cotton and vegetables. His first attempt to operate a service station located at North Commerce near the old jail ends in failure. Later however he will successfully own and operate two or three service stations around Harlingen. This First Baptist Church member will support the Boy Scouts and be very active with the Kiwanis Club. His strong faith will encourage his young brother-in-law, L.B. McCay to take up the ministry. He and Monterey have two children, Isla Lou (later Mrs. Wallace C. Athey) and son James Edmond Carey, Jr. After recovery miraculously from a cerebral hemorrhage and semi-paralysis in 1950, Ed, a native of Caddo, TX, will die in late November 1951 at age 52. As the city expands and begins to name streets after states, Pennsylvania is proposed for what people call Ed Carey Road. Public opinion prevails, however, and the city retains the name Ed Carey. When the expressway is constructed in the 1950s, the Carey homestead is demolished. Mrs. Carey then builds a smaller residence on her property to the south. She will die in 1978.
1919 Leonard S. Fronnfelter begins farming in the Harlingen area, and then later Spanish Acres. He will retire in 1925 and die at age 71 in December 1931. This first Methodist will leave behind four sons and three daughters.
1919 Two cotton gins operating within the town are the C.S. Reynold Cotton Gin west of the railroad tracks along North Commerce, and the Gregory Gin Company on Washington Street near Commerce.
Government/Politics—City, County, State, National Return to top
From November 9, 1903 until he resigns to become vice president 3/4/33 under Franklin Delano Roosevelt, John Nance Garner, a Democrat, is Harlingen's and the 15th Congressional District's representative in the U. S. Congress.
1910 The Combes Post Office is established in the store of Edwin Templeton who serves as postmaster.
1/1/10 On New Year's Eve Dr. Cole's house burns to the ground. Additional fires over time later stir Mayor Cunningham to organize a "Bucket Brigade" of Volunteers to turn out to fight fires. In fighting fires one line of volunteers passes the filled water buckets while a second line returns the empty ones. The system is designed not so much to extinguish a blazing structure but to keep it from spreading to adjacent buildings.
3/10 A petition requesting incorporation of the town is signed by 72 Harlingen residents and presented to County Judge Bartlett.
4/5/10 Forty-one of sixty-three votes cast favor a commission form of government. At this election M.M. Osborn is presiding officer, A.J. Ernst and James Lockhart are judges, and James H. Ewing and S.P. Eaton, clerks.
4/15/10 This date marks the official founding of Harlingen. The oath of office is administered to I.B. "Ike" McFarland--Mayor, and Commissioners John D. Hill and Homer N. Morrow. M.M. Osborn is appointed city clerk, assessor-collector, and treasurer of the Commission. The city's first marshal is E.W. Anglin, who is compensated $50 per month. City marshals following Anglin are Bird Lockhart, Osco Morris, and Bob Johnson. Dr. A.M. Letzerich is appointed (1/24/10) as the town's first health officer but he resigns by July. The history writer Minnie Gilbert says that registered voters at this time with Spanish surnames included the Lozanos, Francisco Alvarez, J. Villareal, D. Ramirez, Pancho Garcia, C.C. Rodriguez, and Joe Abrego. McFarland, who came to Harlingen in 1908, met his wife-to-be here when she journeyed to the area to see a bull fight. They returned to Houston in 1913. The Harlingen Board of Trade reported mid-year improvement expenditures as follows: sugar mill $300,000, cotton compress $35,000, ice plant $25,000, gin $5,000, pressed brick plant $20,000, Methodist church $4,300, waterworks reservoir $5,000, canal extension $60,000, steel bridge across the Arroyo Colorado $17,000, two miles of graded street $1,500, drainage to arroyo $2,500, and together with $34,000 for the schoolhouses a total of $519,300.
1910 (late) The Commission wants to incorporate the city under a Texas law regulating cities of more than 1,000 population. It authorizes M.M. Osborn and James H. Ewing to make a community census. They do with the result that 1,126 persons are counted. A petition for a commission form of government is signed by, among others, Hugo Letzerich, M.M. Osborn, Sam Botts, Santos Lozano, and James Lockhart. Seventy–two qualified votes are cast, eight of which are by Hispanics. The Commission rents the Harlingen Commercial Club building for its meetings.
This year Jim Wells, the political power broker in Cameron/County, loses control of Brownsville to "independent" Democrats and Republicans.
7/19/10 An election is held for the issuance of Water Works bonds whose amount is not to exceed $12,000. The thirty votes cast were all for the project, none against. The bond money is also supposed to cover the cost of smoothing of streets and building of bridges.
12/10 J.C. McBee, the husband of Lon C. Hill's sister, operates a small store and is also Harlingen postmaster at this time.
1911 Cameron County shrinks to 902 square miles after Willacy County is created from its northern portion and also a part of Hidalgo County.
4/4/11 In its second municipal election, 44 votes are cast in the office of Cunningham and Ernst. For this election Cunningham was presiding judge; James H. Ewing and Hubert Barry were judges; and S.P. Eaton and R.I. Dudley, clerks. John D. Hill receives all the votes for Mayor as does Dr. C.W. Letzerich for Commissioner. R.S. Chambers receives 42 votes. Hill resigns immediately after being sworn in to relieve Mayor McFarland. The Commissioners appoint A.W. Cunningham to serve, thus Harlingen has the unique situation of having three mayors in one day. Cunningham, who arrived in Harlingen in 1908, will go on to have a long career in public service, much as a justice of the peace. In partnership with F.B. Baker and O.J. Worm he will operate the realty firm, Land and Orchard Company at 1342 E. Tyler. His Cunninghams Subdivision just southwest of Combes will have 18 ten acre lots. He will be widowed in 1949 upon the death of his wife of nearly 55 years. In May 1962, two months short of his 99th birthday, he will cast his first ballot for a Republican candidate.
1911 With the town population now 1,126, this makes it eligible under state law to change to the city council form of government. Presiding Judge H.D. Seago certifies that the 26 votes were cast in favor of such a change. E.L. Fender, Jacob Miller, J.M. Denton, and Dr. C.W. Letzerich along with Mayor Cunningham constitute Harlingen's first City Council. It, along with five alderman elected in place, meets twice a month. Members of the first Equalization Board to adjust the tax valuation of property are A.W. Weller, Gordon Hill, C.F. Perry, C.W. Hoot, and R.S. Chambers.
The first money-raising ordinance provides for the licensing of dogs at $1.00 each. Some of the retail businesses are taxed and others licensed.
6/5/11 Dr. S.M. Briscoe is appointed to serve, without pay, as city's second health officer. He is mandated to abate the mosquitoes breeding in the stagnant water from broken pipes between City Lake and the ice plant.
Before the year is over the town has completed the installation of a 12,000 gallon tank atop a 50 foot tower east of the water plant. A water system is buried and hydrants installed up Harrison to 4th Street and along Commerce. The next year a five foot diameter hose reel on two wheels is purchased at a cost of $170. Nine of the ten members comprising the Volunteer fire fighting force are Otto Weller, Homer Morrow, H.D. Seago, Fred Chambers, Sam Botts, A.L. Brooks, Sam Sanders (the tailor), Al Pendleton, and Osco Morris, who acts as nominal head.
6/11/11 Contractor Alsbury and Son of Houston have commenced work on the steel bridge to cross the Arroyo Colorado at Mexico Street.
4/12 L.S. Ross, son of former Texas Governor Sul Ross who was a famous Texas Ranger, is elected Mayor. He was the president of the Harlingen Commercial Club, treasurer of the Rio Grande Construction Association, school board trustee and farmed. He is also president of the Harlingen State Bank in which he is provided a private office for the conduct of city business. He is authorized to purchase office furniture and provide stationery. The bank is the depository for city funds. Ross is also responsible for bringing J.F. Rodgers to "Six Shooter Junction" in 1910. After settling in the Wilson Tract area, Rodgers will enter into a partnership with Ross called Ross and Rodgers Realty. A post card photograph taken by P.C. Shocky is inscribed May 5, 1913 and the farm of L.S. Ross-Wilson Tract, Harlingen, Texas. It shows four men in white shirts, ties, and hats standing just inside a field of tall corn. Obviously it was taken to promote land sales.
Elected aldermen are A.H. Weller, J.M. Denton, M.V. Pendleton, who was formerly city clerk, H.A.Gibbs, and R.L. Chaudoin. Osco Morris becomes city marshal and F.T. Kirkman, the new city secretary. In an attempt to get Harlingen citizens out of the mud, a contract is let to William Tennant to build and install wooden platforms for street crossings.
4/12/12 J.E. Thomas is appointed as the city's first attorney.
11/9/12 Fred Chambers is named the city's first fire marshal with a compensation of $12 per annum. In 1916 he will be provided an assistant fire marshal, Phillip S. Waterwall. Waterwall has had a one room false-front store on Jackson for a few years and has even run the post office in its rear when it was located there.
1912 Built by the city, the first electric plant begins to operate and, together with the water works, has taken the expenditure of $20,000. From time to time it is leased to private operators but is constantly taken back due to poor management. The plant sometimes provides energy for up to two hours in the daylight hours and four at night.
The Harlingen Land and Water Co. is awarded a contract to provide river water to Harlingen's City Lake. When pumped by the city it is of substandard quality. This necessitates residents flushing the system on Friday mornings and boiling all water to be used for drinking.
The dirt streets are graded, some concrete sidewalks started, and wooden platforms are built at street crossing.
1/30/13 Morris Sheppard is elected to fill the unexpired term of Senator Bailey. Sheppard will serve as Texas U.S. Senator into the 1960s.
1914 Mayor Ross and three aldermen are re-elected. W.Z. Weems, Jr. becomes the tax-assessor-collector. On October 8 while in Harris County Ross dies at age 45 or 46. Miller V. Pendleton, who works at the bank with Ross, is named to fill the unexpired term. He is re-elected in 4/16. It is his M.V. Pendleton Oil Company that provides oil to the city during his term in office.
4/14 By this date troops are already being stationed in Harlingen, since Texas Governor Oscar Branch Colquitt has sent national guard units to the Valley to ease border tensions which have escalated.
4/22/14 C. Block and Morris Chaudoin are appointed as Harlingen's first policemen.
1/27/15 Hugo Letzerich, four year Harlingen Postmaster, has been renominated for the position.
7/15 The town falls into debt by $6,000 and has to issue treasury warrants due 8/29/16. The salaries of all city officers and alderman are suspended for six months while a $2,000 loan is arranged for the needs of the Water and Light Department. It is decided to cut off those customers in arrears until a 10% penalty is paid. By September 11 another $600 loan is needed. By June 1917 there are more financial struggles as a result of the abandonment of many houses and the military camps with resulting loss of income.
It is around 1915 that the first jail is built on North B Street across the alley east of the Taylor Lumber Company, which is at 116 North 1st Street. It is known affectionately as the "Black Maria."
1915-17 Soldiers of the 6th U.S. Cavalry, 26th Infantry, and the
3rd Texas National Guard are stationed in Harlingen as part of efforts to quell
border unrest. They even have several field hospitals for the minimum of 10
companies involved here. The muster of Texas National Guard officers (158) and
enlisted men (3,572) had begun on May 16, 1916 after which they were mobilized
at Fort Wilson near San Antonio. It is now Fort Sam Houston. Second and Third
Regiments of Infantry and Field Hospital were stationed all along the lower Rio
Grande Valley from Harlingen to Roma. On 8/3/16 on the orders of Major A.R.
Sholars, Companies K and L of the Third Texas Infantry are moved by truck from
San Benito into Harlingen as the first step in consolidating all Texas troops
into Harlingen.
All Valley soldiers are under the command of Brig. Gen. James Parker
headquartered in Brownsville.On August 6 the City Council orders a committee of three to
consult with Texas State Adjutant General Hulen for plans of cooperation between
the general and the City Council and the City Health Officer regarding the camp
site. Brigadier General John A. Hulen was later to organize and command the 36th
Division in World War I. This month the city appoints a City Health Officer to
overlook the soldiers. The city provides the camp with free water and lights.
South Texas Lumber Company account records of early 1916-17 provide a record of some of the units stationed in Harlingen. These include Companies A, D, F, G, J, and L of the 26th Infantry and Companies C, E, F, and H of the 3rd Texas National Guard (and later K and L). These are supported by Field Hospital #5, Field Hospital #1 Texas National Guard, and Ambulance Company #5. In addition to the 6th U. S. Cavalry, there is also the 26th Infantry Band. The officers of the 26th Infantry organize an Officers' Club.
On 9/2/15 A cavalry unit had clashed with bandits near Harlingen. In December 1917 another cavalry unit south of Harlingen shot at five individuals crossing the Rio Grande and killed one who may have been Mariano Casarez, wanted by civil authorities on charges of banditry. [See link "Soldiers Stationed in Harlingen, 1915-16 and Some of their Action.]
After having passed regulation concerning the wandering livestock and odiferous hog pens which have plagued the city for five year, the Council ponders ordinances "compelling citizens to cut weeds on their property and to regulate speeding automobiles by setting the speed limit at 15 miles per hour…also 30 minutes before sunrise, automobiles must have lighted head-lights and a red-lighted lamp in the rear." The curfew regulation is amended to allow children to stay out as late as 10 p.m.
1916 Lon C. Hill donates a lot for a library site but nothing comes of it.
With the help of merchant donations a start is made in erecting electric light poles downtown. E.W. Patterson is deputy city tax collector. He and his wife Maude C. live at 109 E. Pierce.
4/3/16 In today's election two complete tickets were in the field. The Citizens' ticket headed by J.D. Pendleton, candidate for mayor, overwhelmingly defeated the Peoples' ticket. Pendleton received 124 votes versus 13 for Thompson. Other results were: alderman (3 to be elected) Benton 123, Gibbs, 121, Weller 124, Cliff 13, Johnson 15, Berser 14; city secretary Seago 125, Dorough 12; city marshal Osco Morris 124, Largent 5, Bullard 8.
6/6/16 It is reported that the Federal Government has turned down any funding to dredge the Arroyo Colorado in order to create an inland harbor.
4/6/17 A state of war is declared between the United States and Germany and its axis allies.
10/7/17 A Garbage Department is started by the city when it is decided to "hire a man with a wagon to take up the trash." An earlier historian noted "A mild anti-Hispanic prejudice tinged the views of some Anglo settlers. This can be seen in the Harlingen city government instructions to the City Marshal on 7 February 1917 to hire "Mexican for cleanup town, picking up trash, burning papers, etc.ì"
6/25/18 Texas enters a period of state-wide alcoholic beverage prohibition.
11/11/18 The Great War ends with a declaration of an armistice.
1918-22 S.A. Thompson was Mayor this period and also City Commissioner 1916-21. In 1915 he served on the committee of fifteen to draw up a new city charter. He was the owner of the Planters State Bank 1919 until 1923. He joined with James W. Rhone and John Myrick to purchase the first parsonage for the Christian Church of which he was a charter member. His children were Walter and Marvel.
1919 A city ordinance to ban the construction of wooden buildings in the downtown section passes, and the council moves to eliminate existing fire hazard structures.
This year Lon C. Hill travels to Washington, DC to testify before Albert Fall's senate committee investigating the border situation the last decade. Hill recalls the bewilderment of Texans when they heard the Mexicans were going to run all the Gringos out. This is likely a reference to the Plan of San Diego.
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1910-15 The Rex Theater said to have existed here in these years. In a Jubilee Issue article in 1960, Mike Gilbert, manager of the Interstate Theaters here and later to become Harlingen Postmaster, reports that it was built and owned by a man named Denton. It was a corrugated iron building having the projection booth sticking out of its back side. It was later run by R.A. Stevenson. In 1917 Stevenson is associated with the Dreamland Theater. He will serve on the City Commission 4/18-4/22. Emmett Osborn (E.O.)Anglin took the position as a projectionist in the theater as a part time job. The movie, being projected by a single machine, had to be interrupted as each reel was finished and a new one inserted. The Sanborn map of 1919 appears to show this theater on lot 62 which would put it two lots west of where the Rialto would arise on Jackson.
In February 2004, his younger brother, Elmer Anglin, Jr., was still going strong at age 92, in retirement and living with his daughter Yvonne McPeak in Farwell, TX. He recalls being an usher in the second Rex Theater, soon to renovated into the Acadia Theater, and also working with his father and the four-mule teams pulling the Fresno scrapers. He remembers when he, among nine other boys were playing in a barn filled with sacks of oats to feed the mules, and the barn was ignited and burned down. Later he was to work at the Thompson Mortuary, but when left alone and given jobs beyond his uncertified qualifications, he resigned to work in a men's clothing store.
1910 Arriving by train, Mr. and Mrs. William A. Franklin are soon to set up a confectionary store adjacent to Elmore's Barber Shop. They may later have been proprietors of the Franklin Variety Store to the west of Edelsteins Furniture Store at 217 W. Jackson.
F.H. Pena operates a variety store at 323 W. Van Buren. Each evening he or his daughter, who will become Mrs. Ismael Luna, hangs a candle-lit lantern bought for $2.50 Mexican money on a post in front of the store to guide night customers.
2/3/10 The Harlingen Ice and Gin Company is organized. Its shareholders and shares are: R. W. Horlick of Varasotoa, Texas 100 shares, Lon C. Hill 20, C.W. Clift 30, Jacob Miller 10, Kate Bailey 4, O.H. Weller 10, S.H. Bell 20, J.D. Ellis 4, S. Lozano and Son 2 for a total of 200. The purpose of the corporation is to construct or purchase and maintenance of mills and gins, manufacture and supply to the public by any means of ice, gas, light, heat and electric motor power or either in connection with such mills and gins. By 1912 Gordon Hill and R.L. Autrey are involved with the company.
3/10 Harlingen has an early chamber of commerce in the name of the Harlingen Commercial Club. It spends $290 for lumber to erect a building in the triangular lot where Commerce meets Monroe Street. Its first unpaid secretary is H.D. Seago. The building is later used as City Hall and when it is demolished is dedicated as a pocket park named after Gordon Hill. It still exists today west of the Grimsell Store.
John T. Lomax arrives in the Valley and later becomes a formidable force as banker, producer, cotton gin owner, and fruit merchant. While working mostly in San Benito, he, in 1924, becomes president of the reorganized Valley State Bank of Harlingen.
12/10 Hill places order in New Orleans for a sugar mill. By late 4/11 eighteen carloads of machinery have been delivered for erection by the contractor, D.J. Haynes Company of Houston. John Clarey of Houston is the on-site superintendent. Its cost ranges from $125,000 to $600,000 depending on the source. The lower figure is more likely for the wooden-clad, 500 tons per day capacity mill. The mill's location is where Harlingen Field, the baseball stadium, now stands.
In late 1910 or early 1911 Mr. C.W. Waterwall builds a two story frame house at 114 W. Monroe. It is soon to offer a home and business venture to the Chaudoin family. Robert Chaudoin had come to the area to work with R.S. Dilworth and Winston Harwood. The R. S. Dilworth Ranch was south of the Arroyo Colorado where Dilworth Road reaches it. After some hard times, the Chaudoins moved to town. They turned the spacious building into a rooming house and also offered board but not for long. Soon Huron and Lucy Verser of Riley, TN came to Harlingen with their five children. Mr. Verser came for his health and stayed to farm. The Versers purchase the structure and continue to rent rooms and offer board. Mrs. Verser's southern hospitality becomes well known, the place prospers, and it becomes a temporary home to many new Harlingenites. Son Jack is born in the house in 1916 or 1917. The Chaudoin house becomes known as the Verser House. When unoccupied in 1979, a series of fires occurred in it. Jack Verser offered the salvageable parts to the Rio Grande Valley Museum to use in the restoration of Harlingen's first hospital which had been moved to the complex. [For additional information on the Verser House see "Southern Hospitality in Harlingen—the Verser House" link.] Huron Judson Verser, who first farmed where Four Corners (F and Harrison Streets) was later to be, died 4/30/50 at 81 in his Monroe Street home. This member of the First Baptist Church born in Austin, AK left behind his wife Lucie, four daughters and son Jack.
This year the V & K (?) Saloon was in business at 320 W. Van Buren to serve an Hispanic clientele. The wooden frame building would later be occupied by the Cavasos Grocery Store.
3/21/11 The Hill Sugar Company is incorporated. "The purpose for which this corporation is formed is for the growing and selling of sugar cane, with the right to make and refine sugar and molasses, and all the by-products of sugar cane and to sell same." Its five directors are: Lon C. Hill, Gordon Hill, John D. Hill, Paul Hill, and F.A. Schaff. The capital stock totals $300,000 in 3,000 $100 shares. At the 5/6/13 meeting of stockholders the breakdown of the shares is revealed. Gordon Hill has 288.4, Paul Hill 42, Schaff 1, Lon C. Hill 507.6, and L.C. Hill, Jr. 2,161.
7/10/11 Harlingen compresses its first cotton bale in its new compress plant.
10/26/11 There is a big demand for rental houses, since there is not a vacant house to be had.
10/27/11 E. F. Ballard of Tupelo, Mississippi is reported by the Brownsville Herald to have organized a state bank with the capital stock of $25,000. Accompanied by his wife and children he is staying at the Mooreland Hotel.
W.D. Rogers, with wife and son, of Sabinal, TX arrives to start a sheet metal business.
11/11 The mill commences grinding sugar cane. It will process cane in the 1911-12, 1912-13, and 1913-14 seasons.
5/12 A new eight-stand gin with provisions for long staple cotton is being built while the green corn processing plant will soon be completed. Ground for an oil mill has been set aside.
1912 F. Finley Ewing of Ballinger, Runnels County, TX comes to San Benito. After four years there he works for the government in border construction projects. Then in 1919 comes to Harlingen to enter the hardware business as half-owner of Ewing and Phillips Hardware Company at the northwest corner of Commerce and Jackson. Later he is president of the Peoples Gin Company. By 1929 he is president of the Harlingen Development Company. This is the relic of the original townsite company which was acquired by local interests from foreign capitalists in 1924. At this time in the original townsite there are1,000 building lots left which this company owns and controls. He is elected Mayor on 4/6/26 and serves until 1928.
It is also in 1912 that Robert Terry Stuart of Kaufman County, TX first comes to the Valley. His development work starts in 1916 with investments near Harlingen, Brownsville, Edcouch, and tracts near Mercedes and Mission. He was born near Terrill in Kaufman County, TX on 1/24/80. His parents are Texas born, his grandparents having come here from Scotland when Texas was a republic. He is educated at the Sam Houston School in Huntsville and the M&F Institute, Chicago. In Oklahoma City he becomes president of the Mid-Continental Life Insurance Co. and the Robert T. Stuart and Co. Investment Banks. He married Maude Elizabeth McKebbons 6/30/04.
Here this year also is Wenselado Chapa. This native of Mexico, born 1883, will later open a small grocery store, become a Latin American civic leader, and owner of Chapa Tortilla factory and Grocery. Upon his death of a heart attack at age 64 in 1947 he will leave behind his wife Cruz, two sons and four daughters.
P.C. Shockey may have come to Harlingen this year. He is likely to have become Harlingen's first resident photographer. He helps to publicize the whole Valley by placing many of his more interesting photographs on post cards for sale.
10/13 At this point in time Hill is in debt to the Mississippi Valley Trust Company. A list of judgments against him totals $210,023.68.
11/25/13 H.A. Gibbs is editor of the Harlingen Star newspaper. He and his wife may have taken over the weekly as early as 1909. Sales records indicate he was here by January 1911. He also serves on the City Commission 4/12 through 11/16. For a time the Gibbs operated at the back of the Hill Building
1913 R.L. Chaudoin opens his real estate office above the Harlingen State Bank at Jackson and A Streets. Later as president of the Rio Valley Land Co., he will hire D.W. Swartz as vice-president and sales manager. While R.L. Chaudoin came to Harlingen in 1910 he had been in the Valley since 1908. He was born in Caldwell County 2/14/59 and attended common schools as public schools were then called. He marries Lily Polly on 10/27/82. Of Hugenot descent, his father was a medical doctor and classmate of Robert E. Lee; his mother a descendent of Robert Morris of Philadelphia. In Harlingen he will serve as city recorder, City Commissioner (4/12-4/19), and justice of the peace. He was a member of the Woodmen of the World and the Methodist Church. In 1930 he is located at 613 N.1st Street.
8/4/14 At a special meeting of the Harlingen Sugar Company directors it is revealed that the company has $120,000 worth of bonds that have matured on 7/25/14 and also owes six months of interest on them at 6% and is unable to pay the principle or interest. The bond holders want additional security and agree to extend payment until 1/25/15. The company then give a chattel mortgage to Breckinridge Jones of St. Louis for all its farm implements and the crops to be grown on its farm in Cameron County for the year 1914, also all profits and returns from the sugar mill.
1915 T.P. Roberts establishes a general store. In 1918 his son, J.R. Roberts, takes it over, the same year that he will be elected Mayor for two consecutive terms. It is the largest store of its kind in Harlingen and employs 15 people. J.R. was born in Colmesneil, Texas in 2/21/95 and educated at Uvalde High School. In WWI he serves 10 months overseas with the 36th division. He marries Lela Smith on 8/14/23. He becomes vice-president of the First National Bank and, by 1929, president of the Harlingen Development Company of which Osco Morris and S. Finley Ewing are partners. Over time all three gentleman lay claim to be the president of the company acquired in 1926. He is also v-p of the Peoples Gin Co. and president of the Willacy County Gin Co.
Gregorio Garcia, who came to Harlingen in 1910, publishes El Precurso, the first Spanish language newspaper in town.
In this year too, after being away two years, L.R. Hollingworth of Brazoria County, TX comes back to San Benito, where his father has a cattle business. Here he works six years for banks, including three at the Farmers State Guaranty Bank as assistant cashier. In WWI he served four months in the aviation section. In June 1922 he establishes the Hollingsworth Motor Company, an agent and distributor of Ford and Lincoln automobiles and Fordson tractors. At 220-222 W. Harrison he builds a two story structure with the showroom downstairs and family quarters above. In the 1930s he is to construct the handsome art deco showroom at 221 W. Harrison. Hollinsworth was born in Valasco, TX 10/9/99. After attending the Wentworth Academy, he served in the Signal Corps in WWI. He married Eleanor Campbell on 3/15/20 and together they sired three boys. One of the first to have a radio set in the 1920s, he is a Mason and Shriner. He left the Valley for San Antonio where he ranched and was involved in real estate. He is to be buried in Beeville
Robert W. Nelson and his children at the time come to the Valley. Five years later he will become the local agent and outside investor for the Magnolia Oil Co. He was born in Clarke City, AK 8/28/73 and educated at common schools and Hill's Business College. He married Maggie D. Dunn 1/25/99. Of Scotch-Irish descent he and his family are members of the Christian Church. The Nelsons have daughters Verda, Thelma, and Gladys and by 1926 also Leman, Alton and Robert. The Nelsons will erect the Nelson Apartments at 1-2 W. Madison.
Early in 1915 the S. Lozano and Son wooden mercantile store is torn down and replace by a substantial two-story building constructed of brick from Monterey, Mexico.
It is thought that this is the year that the Thompson Mortuary at 209 E. Jackson Street opens as Harlingen's first funeral home. T.F. Thompson, funeral director, was born in Washington County in 12/1841. He attended pioneer schools and married Annie Bell 8/11/65. His father Alexander was from Tennessee and fought at San Jacinto as well as under Gen. Green in the Civil War. John T. Thompson, the mortician, was born in Hempstead, TX 12/15/80 and attended high school there. He married Edna Taylor of Waller, TX on 9/26/02. He is an Episcopalian and a Shriner. Eventually the mortuary will be merged into Kreidler-Ashcraft. While most of the original mortuary building with its cupola remains on Jackson Street part of it was moved elsewhere in years past.
2/17/16 The South Texas Lumber Company suspends the account of the Hill Sugar Company which owes it $500.
2/27/16 Eulagio Garza is operating the West Side Tavern and Pool Hall. Julian Villareal and his wife Emma are doing some remodeling and will later open their confectionery store at 322 W. Van Buren. They will reside at 423 W. Taylor by 1930.
1916 Some of the companies in existence this year will no longer be on the scene by 1930. These include: the Seago Grain Co., Pendleton Oil Co., Beebe Pharmacy, Security Trust Co., RGV Ice Association, and the Valley Meat Market.
1917 Planters State Bank goes into operation at southeast corner of Commerce and Jackson. A two story brick building is erected where Mack Crenshaw once ran his barber shop in a small frame building. About this time the Harlingen State Bank had deposits of $78,919.81 and the Planters State and Guaranty Bank $22,516.84. The Planters State Bank organized by B.F. Johnson takes over the assets of the Harlingen State Bank and is later purchased itself by S.A. Thompson on 1/1/19. In 1923 it closes its doors. Its assets are taken over by the Valley State Bank, organized by B.M. Holland, a former bank examiner. John T. Lomax of San Benito becomes president and Tyre H. Brown vice-president. The Valley State Bank fails in 1931 after occupying the ground floor of the building 1924-1927. In the years 1927 thru 1965 the Cameron County Irrigation District No. 1 office is in the building. Currently the Junior League runs a thrift shop in the lower floor and the upper one is occupied by the Downtown Development office. The building bears a bronze Texas Sesquicentennial 1836-1986 plaque.
4/16/17 As indicated by rent paid to the South Texas Lumber Co., R.A. Stevenson's Dreamland Theater is in operation. Another entity with a lumber company account at this time is the National Theater.
7/17/17 Mexican bandits are said to burn the wood-clad Hill Sugar Mill to the ground. It had not been operated for several years. Because of the limited fire protection for it and an adjacent warehouse, no insurance company will provide coverage for the flammable structures.
Here this year is A.J. Rabel. He was born in Moravia, Lavaca County 2/11/88 and received a degree from Hamilton College, Chicago. Of French-Austrian ancestry his people were in Texas by 1866. He married Ada Baker of Columbus, TX on 12/15/13. Her father was editor of Columbus' first newspaper in 1850 and had come from Virginia. Rabel is the second established lawyer in Harlingen. In 1928 he is a partner in Rabel-Napier and Fristoe (Osce). He served as the city attorney for a time and was the first attorney for Willacy County. This Baptist is a Mason and Kiwanis member. His son is Aldolphus B.
J.T. (Tom) Foster also comes to the Valley this year. His public service is to be lengthy. For three years he is superintendent of schools, Cameron County Commissioner, Cameron County Deputy Tax Collector, and for a time administrator of the Valley Baptist Hospital. From McKinney, TX, this First Baptist Church member was also a Mason and a charter member of the Kiwanis. Residing at 509 E. Harrison he dies at age 77 on 4/16/62, leaving his wife Ethel and others. Mrs. Foster came to Harlingen in 1918 and ten years later commenced teaching. In 1949 she was still going strong at the Sam Houston School.
An arrival from San Antonio in the Valley this year is William Edward Allen. He is to go into the fruit packing business and later own a motel. He is to die at age 66 on 5/7/62 leaving a widow, Mabel, son Lloyd Allen here, a daughter in Houston, and a brother, Henry in Rio Hondo.
4/1/18 R.B. Hamilton comes from Bishop, Texas to become manager of the First National Bank, whose capital stock stands at $15,000. He increases that to $25,000 in 1919. He is to serve on the City Commission 4/23-12/31.
6/4/18 A Chamber of Commerce is organized.
William H. Hundley is here this year. He is general agent for the Gulf Coast Lines for whom he has been employed for 24 years. He will also become a director for the First National Bank of Harlingen. He was born on 1/28/76 in Commerce,TX, where his father C.J. was the first medical doctor in the eastern part of Hunt County. He was educated at common schools and married Ray Juniger 9/9/07. He is a Mason and a Rotarian.
1918 A.A. Kimmel establishes a business with his name, A.A. Kimmel and Company Hardware and Implements It is in a brick front building on Jackson to the east of that of H. Letzerich. This native of Williams County, Ohio first came to Riviera, Kleberg County in 1908. By 1925 his brother Roy is helping him manage the store, and by 1929 the company is called the Kimmel Implement Co., Inc. and deals in hardware, implements, machinery and is agent for International Harvester. Now at 219-211 N. Commerce, it boosts a floor space of 4,000 square feet. Kimmel was born in Montpelier, OH 9/27/84. He married Josie M. Heaton of Norton, KS on 11/19/06. In WWI he serves on the Registration Board. He serves as a City Commissioner 4/21-4/23 and again 1/36-12/38. In 1928 he is president of the Retail Merchants Association and treasurer of the Rotary Club. Serving as commissioner again in 1942, he runs for re-election in May 1944. Mrs. Kimmel is active in the Business Women's Club, the Red Cross, and with her children Gordon A., Julia M., and Edna Mae.
Having been here in 1912, 1918 is the year W.T Liston returns from Elysian Fields, TX for good with his son William Osie (W.O.) Liston. Of Scotch-Irish descent he was born in Panola County 10/19/70 and married to Annie Davidson of Robstown in 9/15. She is the mother of Sibyl and Eunice. In 1919 W.T. Liston and his son start a building contractor firm. It is in 1922 that he starts his W.T. Liston Cast, Stone, and Concrete Co. It supplies ready-mix concrete until this item is dropped in1986 but continues with concrete-formed items, especially pipe and culverts. W.O. will later marry Lily Chaudoin of another pioneer Harlingen family. W.T. is a Knight of Pythias and an Oddfellow. The business location at 821 W. Harrison will later be the site of H.E.B. Market No. 2. Liston's son Claude is, in 1922, to marry Minnie who came here 10/8/19 from Caddo, TX. In 1926 he is operating a dry cleaning and dye works establishment. After construction of the municipal golf course, he will manage it for many years before joining his father's firm and remaining there until his death in 1956. Minnie will then work at the First Baptist Church nursery for 29 years. She is honored for her work on her 84th birthday on 9/29/85.
10/29/18 At this time S.A. Pipes is the publisher of the Harlingen Star.
1919 The present Harlingen Chamber of Commerce takes shape with A.A. Kimmel as president and J.B. Challes, who had come to Harlingen in 1918, as secretary-manager. In 1921 it incorporates with A.L. Brooks as chairman and Challes remaining as secretary-manager but now being paid. John Challes, after a career in insurance and service to the Rotary Club, will die at age 90 in May of 1971. In 1923 Myron Ward is to become manager, followed by George A. Toolan, and John T. Floore through 1932, then Challes again, 1935, Mrs. Mella A. Hover and A.L. Brooks, and C.C. Williams in 1937.
This same year Sam J. Baker comes to town. He later co-founds Baker-Potts Nursery on the road west of town so named for this entity. This native of Howard City, KS (b.3/12/72) dies at age 87 (11/2/59) in Baytown, TX at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Louis (Amy Mae) Himes. A second daughter, Mrs. Frances Davis, resides in Harlingen. His wife, Virginia T. Dyer Baker, preceded him in death. Baker was a community activist being a Mason, Odd Fellow, Woodmen of the World, and member of the Christian Church. In WWI he assisted in Liberty Bond drives.
Arthur J. Potts is a nursery man as well as secretary-treasurer of the company. He was born in Weatherford, TX 3/16/83. He attended Texas A&M College and the U. of California. He married Frances Opal Poland of Muncie, IN on 6/2/10. During the war he was an instructor to the A.T.C. At 802 Harrison they have a daughter Litha Marie.
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2/3/10 One of the first Harlingen natives to be born in the official new town is Felipe Sosa, son of Cirildo and Refugia. For many years he will be employed by Southmost Sash and Doors in Harlingen. When this Queen of Peace Catholic Church parishioner dies 10/4/06 at age 96 he leaves behind his wife Elvira of 67 years, four sons and three daughters. His priest son Philip will conduct his service.
1910 James F. Rodgers and his wife come to Harlingen. He was born in Illinois 10/22/71 and educated at Warrensburg Normal School. For a time he was a school teacher in Missouri. Of Irish descent he married Mary L. Yates of Monroe City, MO 10/30/1900 at St. Stephen's Catholic Church, Indian Creek, MO. She was schooled at the St. Joseph Academy, Dubuque, IA. He is a landowner and was one of the founders of the Wilson Independent School, which from one room has by 1928 grown into a beautiful two-story $40,000 building and employs 11 teachers. Rodgers is chairman of the Valley-Texas Farm Bureau Cotton Association. He is a Kiwanis, Knight of Columbus, and member of the Chamber of Commerce. On 5/20/22 James F. Rodgers is appointed U.S. Postmaster for Harlingen and serves until 1935. They are parents to Charles L., L.P., Raymond J., Josephine, Ravilla, and J.F., Jr. Mrs. Rodgers was involved with the Red Cross during WWI and also with the Ladies Chamber of Commerce. They will eventually reside at 818 E. Madison where they will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary.
Mrs. Rodger's brother, Tom Yates is also to come here in 1910. He was born in Missouri on 9/24/90. He will purchase 160 acres of Wilson Tract land from Jesse Avery. He will farm it and later be involved in cotton ginning, produce buying, and be associated with both federal and state departments of agriculture.
His wife to be is Rachel Brown born in Duluth MN on 1/1/94. She arrives here in 1912. Her father, Frank R. Brown, is sent here by a northern bank which has loaned Lon C. Hill money and wants to check on how things are going. He will stay to become associated with the water district office. Rachel will teach at the Wilson School. Rachel and Tom's son, Frank, will be a long-time employee of CPL. Brown's second wife, Katherine Clarey Brown, is a doctor who has worked in Hopkinville, KY and St. Louis, MO before coming to Harlingen with Frank in 1911. She and the widowed Frank had been married in 1907, honeymooned in Alaska, and stayed there six months before moving on. Here she is not a practicing physician but does offer the first in-patient care in Harlingen when she takes patients into their spacious 1222 W. Harrison Street house. When the first F Street hospital opened in 1923 she may have ceased this service. By 1930 the Browns are living in an apartment on Madison.
4/10 Mrs. Tomasa Villareal Garza, sister of Julian Villareal, has work done on her 416 W. Harrison residence.
10/17/10 Hill, dissatisfied with and critical of the courts and sheriff's office decides to run for Cameron County sheriff on an Independent-Republican ticket. He is termed by some a "hatchet man." In the November election 3,232 votes are cast. He loses by161 votes in a year when Democrats are strong across the nation.
C.P. Lear moved to the Valley in 1910 and to Harlingen in 1919. This CPL employee dies 9/1/60.
Coming to Harlingen from Sherman in 1910 is T.W. Scott. He becomes one of the city's early developers and keeps his hand in real estate until his death of an automobile accident 9/7/59. He leaves his wife Mary Elizabeth Scott of Harlingen and a daughter in McAllen.
Also coming to the Valley this year is J.B. Chambers, who then went back to Corpus Christi only to return again in 1920. His parents came from Mississippi and had settled in Texas in 1858. He was born in Waco on 5/7/70. He was educated at Baylor University and served in the secret service in WWI. This Baptist Church member married Alice Souther on 6/3/96. His first time here he sold hardware and implements; the second time he became president of the J.B. Chambers Real Estate Co., president of the Harlingen Real Estate Board, and chairman of the Arroyo Colorado Irrigation District of Cameron and Willacy Counties.
1911 It was for health and business reasons that the John Thomas Baker family of La Porte, TX moved to Harlingen this year. Born in Danville KY in1868, he went to Kansas State Normal College. Eventually he owned a lumber company and served as mayor of LaPorte. He married Bessie Gaskill at Stilson, TX in 1903. She had attended the Chicago School of Music in 1901 and majored in voice. She is to die at age 75 on 5/22/59. Baker was involved with the drafting of the city's original charter. He owned the first Ford agency and next to it the first garage. These were on Commerce at the northeast corner of Van Buren. Around 1925-26 he was to demolish them and construct the two story, brick commerce building in the site. The Bakers had a very large family. Born in LaPorte were Neal Vivian, 1904; Loren Major Loree, 1905; Audrey May, who died at birth in 1906; John Thurloe, 1907 and Lila Selina, 1911. Born in Harlingen were Bessie Beatrice, 1914; Blanche Elizabeth, 1916; Gladys Juanita, 1919; Willard Gaskill, 1922; and Ray Wendell, 1924. By 1930 the telephone book lists John's occupation as landowner and his home address at 310 S. 8th Street.
1912 Later to be Mrs. Edith M. Trousdale, she arrives here at age 15 from Minnesota. This member of the First Methodist Church has one son, Roy R. Trousdale. She dies 10/10/59 at age 62.
Other newcomers this year are J.W. Harrington, C.N. Simmons, John F. Sanders, the J.M. Paine family, Jake S. Pletcher and the J.E. Wilson family.
Eunice Simmons comes this year with her parents, George and Anne Simmons. In April 1923 she will marry Neil S. Madeley, Sr.
Also coming to the Valley this year and later to become a Harlingen resident is A.M. Kent. He becomes a Cameron County attorney, 1913-17, then judge on the 103rd Judicial Court until 1938. In WWII he serves as a Captain in the Corps of Military Police. For a time he is chairman of the Cameron County Democratic Party as well as a partner in the law firm of Kent, Brown and George. Born in Rolfe, Iowa 4/12/87, this First Presbyterian Church member dies of a heart attack 1/3/60 at age 72.
This year E.L. Fender is operating a general store in town.
9/13 Hoyte Hicks and Luallee Pendleton Burchard come to Harlingen by train from Gonzales, TX at the urging of her brother Miller Pendleton. Their daughter Kate Dorothy Burchard, later Mrs. Charles Washmon, is two years old. H.H. takes the position of executive director of th