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 Henri Castro (July 17, 1786 – November 3, 1865), a Jewish Texan, was one of
the most important empresarios of the Republic of Texas. Only Stephen
F. Austin was responsible for bringing more colonists to Texas as an
empresario. Castro, who was born in Bayonne, France, was a French
diplomat of Portuguese-Jewish descent, and he would later become an
American citizen. The hundreds of families he recruited for emigration
to Texas came primarily from the Haut-Rhin region of Alsace, and they
settled in the Medina River valley, just west of San Antonio. The city
of Castroville on the Medina River is named for him, as is Castro
County in the Texas Panhandle. Castro himself settled for a time in
Castroville. |
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