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Considered the “Father of Texas”, Stephen Fuller Austin helped establish the first Texas Colony at San Felipe de Austin on the Brazos River. Born in Virginia, Austin assisted his father, Moses Austin, in a venture to help settle Texas. They Received a land grant from Mexico to bring 300 families to settle on the Brazos and Colorado rivers. Austin eventually brought more than 8,000 ...
Austin, Stephen Fuller (1793–1836)Stephen Fuller Austin (b. 3 November 1793; d. 27 December 1836), father of Anglo-American Texas. Born in southwest Virginia, Austin lived and attended school in Spanish Upper Louisiana, Connecticut, and Kentucky before beginning work at age seventeen in his father's mercantile and lead businesses in Missouri.
The Digital Austin Papers project seeks to recreate the turbulent world of the Texas borderlands during the 1820s and 1830s, as seen through the correspondence of Stephen F. Austin. Collecting thousands of letters by both Mexicans and Americans, the project offers unprecedented access to the movement of people and ideas between the United States and Mexico during the early nineteenth century.
Stephen Fuller Austin, surnommé le Père du Texas, mena la deuxième colonisation de cette région des États-Unis actuels en faisant venir des migrants américains, alors que le Texas appartenait au Mexique. Il a donné son nom à l'actuelle capitale du Texas, Austin, mais aussi à des établissements d'enseignement comme l'Université Stephen F. Austin à Nacogdoches ou l'Austin College à ...
Stephen Fuller Austin. Unidentified Artist 1840. Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery. Washington, D.C., United States. In 1821, Stephen Austin established the first settlement of Anglo-Americans in Mexico’s largely uninhabited Texas territory, where his late father had secured a land grant. The colony thrived and expanded, and, with the ...
Stephen Fuller Austin ( Comtat de Whyte, 3 de novembre de 1793 - West Columbia (Texas), 27 de desembre de 1836) és conegut com el «Pare de Texas» ( The Father of Texas, en anglès) pel fet que va liderar la segona i definitiva onada de colonització estatunidenca d'aquella regió aleshores mexicana, on conduí tres cents famílies des dels ...
Stephen Fuller Austin was born on November 3, 1793, in Wythe County, Virginia, where his father operated a lead mine 250 miles from Richmond. By the time Stephen reached his third birthday, his father Moses entertained the idea of moving into Spanish territory, which would eventually become the state of Missouri, upon word of large lead deposits there.
