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Henrietta Chamberlain King
July 21, 1832–March 31, 1925
Henrietta Chamberlain King helped build one of the nation’s largest ranches and established institutions now central to life in South Texas.
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Born in Missouri in 1832, King moved to Brownsville with her family as a young woman. There she met her future husband, Richard, an unschooled riverboat pilot with dreams of establishing a cattle ranch on the Santa Gertrudis Creek.
When the newlyweds settled on land southwest of Corpus Christi, King proved equal to the challenges of running a ranch.
She took charge of the housing, health care, and education of the ranch hands and their families, all while raising her own five children.
Following her husband's death in 1885, Henrietta assumed ownership of the King Ranch, now a half-million-acre spread that was half a million dollars in debt.
With her son-in-law Robert Kleberg, she steered the estate out of the red, expanded its holdings, and oversaw the development of