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Henry Kinney
Henry Lawrence Kinney was born in Pennsylvania, US on June 3, 1814. In 1838 Kinney moved to Texas and settled near where Brownsville, Texas is today. He served in both houses of the Texas Legislature.〔http://www.ccmuseumedres.com/tour.php?action=details&record=120〕 He was killed in a gunfight in Mexico on March 3, 1862.〔http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/KK/fki29.html〕
==Corpus Christi==
By 1841 Kinney began trading and ranching near where Corpus Christi, Texas is today on a site known as the Old Indian Trading Grounds. He was elected as a senator to the Ninth Texas Congress and served as a delegate to the Convention of 1845.
At the beginning of the Mexican-American War he was on General James Pinckney Henderson's campaign staff, campaigning in Northern Mexico. At the end of the war he returned to the area and continued trading. Kinney established Corpus Christi as Kinney's Rancho and also established Nuecestown, which is now a ghost town within the city limits of Corpus Christi.〔http://www.texasescapes.com/TexasGulfCoastTowns/Nuecestown-Texas.htm〕 Kinney County was named for Henry Kinney.
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