In August 1936 brothers John Kirby Allen and Augustus Chapman Allen, two real estate entrepreneurs from New York City, purchased 6,642 acres of land along Buffalo Bayou with the intent of founding a city. The Allen brother decided to name the city after Sam Houston the popular general at the Battle of San Jacinto who was elected President of Texas in September 1836. The city was incorporated in 1937. The brothers divided it into political geographic districts called wards. In 1839 the city was divided into four ward. The Fifth ward was added in 1866 and then six wards decades later.
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