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Bentsens move to Texas
On this day in 1918, Peter Bentsen and his family left their South
Dakota homestead and headed for Sharyland, an irrigated citrus and
vegetable utopia envisioned by John H. Shary and developed by him near
Mission, Texas. It took the family seventeen days to drive the 1,675
miles to the Rio Grande valley by car. They arrived penniless. Bentsen's
sons, Lloyd, Sr., and Elmer, joined him after they were mustered out of
the service at the end of World War I. All saved diligently and invested
in Valley land as soon as they could, and the two brothers became the
premier colonizers and developers of Hidalgo County. Lloyd Bentsen, Sr.,
and his wife had four children, one of whom, Lloyd Bentsen, Jr., was a
congressman, a United States senator, a vice-presidential candidate, and
secretary of the treasury.
- Links to Related Handbook of Texas Online Articles
- BENTSEN, LLOYD MILLARD, SR.
- SHARY, JOHN HARRY
- SHARYLAND, TX
- HIDALGO COUNTY
- RIO GRANDE VALLEY
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