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John Closner

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Biography
Early years
References

{{Multiple issues|{{notability|1=Biographies|date=April 2018}}{{one source|date=April 2018}}}}John Closner (1853–1932) was an early Hidalgo County, Texas developer, rancher, and Democratic Party boss of South Texas. He became sheriff in 1890 and under the protection of James B. Wells Jr., became the county's political boss. During his rule he brought peace to the county and was seen as such an effective leader that he was nicknamed the "father" of Hidalgo County.^[1]

Biography

Early years

John Closner was born on March 24, 1853, in New Glarus, Wisconsin the son of Swiss parents John and Elizabeth (Blumer) Closner. He moved to Texas in 1870 and settled in Bosque County, before moving to Rio Grande City, Texas in 1883 with only sixteen dollars.

Closner is credited for pioneering farming and irrigation in Hidalgo County.^[2]

Closner died on June 3, 1932, in Brownsville, Texas, the city to which he moved in 1923 with his family to retire. Today, a major boulevard in Edinburg, Texas bears his last name.^[3]

References

1. ^Hidalgo County | The Handbook of Texas Online| Texas State Historical Association (TSHA)
2. ^/>3. ^[https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fcl33 Closner, John | The Handbook of Texas Online| Texas State Historical Association (TSHA)]

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