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The earliest permanent settler at this point on the Guadalupe was Joshua D. Brown (1816-74), a native of Kentucky who came to Texas in 1830 and settled at Gonzales near a fellow Kentuckian, James Kerr, surveyor and resident manager of Green DeWitt…
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Formed from Bexar County
Created January 26, 1856
Organized March 22, 1856
Named in honor of
James Kerr, 1790-1850
the first American settler on
the Guadalupe River. General
manager of DeWitt's Colony
signer of the Texas Declaration
o…
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Kentucky native James Kerr, the son of a Baptist minister, was reared in Missouri.
Kerr fought in the War of 1812 and was later sheriff of St. Charles County, Missouri.
He married Angeline Caldwell in 1818 and served in the Missouri Senate and…