A scoundrel for all occasions

Three years after holding Texas’ first state fair, Henry L. Kinney was indicted in Philadelphia on May 4, 1855 for plotting to invade Nicaragua. The ex-smuggler and shady founder of Corpus Christi was, as always, up to no good.The Pennsylvania native was 18, when he visited relatives at the Irish colony of San Patricio in 1832. He wandered back to Texas five years later and set up shop...

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