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Stephen Fuller Austin (November 3, 1793 – December 27, 1836) was an American-born empresario.Known as the "Father of Texas" and the founder of Anglo Texas, [1] [2] he led the second and, ultimately, the successful colonization of the region by bringing 300 families and their slaves from the United States to the Tejas region of Mexico in 1825.
Stephen F. Austin, known as the "Father of Texas." In 1821, the Mexican War for Independence severed the control that Spain had exercised on its North American territories, and the new country of Mexico was formed from much of the lands that had comprised New Spain, including Spanish Texas. [83]
He was the father of Stephen F. Austin, one of the earliest American settlers of Texas, which was at the time part of Mexico. [ 1 ] After receiving a land grant from the Spanish Crown in 1820, Moses Austin planned to be the first to establish an American settlement in Spanish Texas , but he died before his dream was realized. [ 2 ]
Stephen F. Austin, known as the Father of Texas, died December 27, 1836, after serving two months as Secretary of State for the new Republic. In 1836, five sites served as temporary capitals of Texas (Washington-on-the-Brazos, Harrisburg, Galveston, Velasco and Columbia), before President Sam Houston moved the capital to Houston in 1837.
Mirabeau Lamar monument at Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, Texas, reads: "The cultivated mind is the guardian genius of democracy.". Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar (August 16, 1798 – December 19, 1859) was an American attorney, politician, poet, and leading political figure during the Texas Republic era.
He was born in Corsica in 1748 and settled in Spanish Texas in 1769. Navarro was the seventy-second alcalde (mayor) of San Antonio under Spanish Texas. [1] He was the father of Texas statesman José Antonio Navarro, San Antonio alcalde José Ángel Navarro (elder), and the grandfather of Texas state legislator José Ángel Navarro III.
Richard Austin (1598–1645) was an early Puritan colonist who landed in Boston Harbor, Massachusetts on 16 May 1638 [1] on board a ship called the Bevis. [2] [3] [4] He was the immigrant paternal English ancestor and great-great-great-grandfather of Stephen F. Austin, empresario, considered the "father of Texas" and founder of Texas.
Charles Goodnight: Father of the Texas Panhandle, by William T. Hagan; Texas Ranchmen, by Dorothy Abbott McCoy; The New Handbook of Texas, Texas State Historical Association; Family History, by Mark Tracy Sheek; JA Ranch Records, Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, Texas Tech University at Lubbock, Texas