1. Charles Stillman was the founder of Brownsville, Texas, and was part owner of a successful river boat company on the Rio Grande.
10 Facts About Charles Stillman
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Charles Stillman was born in Wethersfield, Connecticut, United States, to Capt.
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Charles Stillman was involved in cotton brokerage and real estate in addition to silver mines in Nuevo Leon and Tamaulipas.
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Charles Stillman, having a deed to the land, offered to lease it to the government to build a fort on.
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Charles Stillman founded Brownsville, Texas, on January 13,1849, around the same time as the establishment of Fort Brown.
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Charles Stillman offered the Cavazos family $33,000 for their land even though it was worth $214,000.
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However, Charles Stillman never paid the Cavazos family the $33,000 for the land.
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Shortly before the Civil War Charles Stillman hired a clerk by the name of Francisco Yturria who would become an instrumental partner in King, Kenedy and Co.
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Charles Stillman died on December 18,1875, and was buried in Woodlawn Cemetery in New York.
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Charles Stillman is believed to have named the first three streets in Brownsville after himself, his wife Elizabeth and his father Francis.