Stephen F. Austin
✓ Source-basedrisingAmerican empresario, founder of Texas, namesake of Austin, Texas (1793-1836)
e. a person granted the right to settle on land in exchange for recruiting and taking responsibility for settling the eastern areas of the Tejas region of Mexico in the early nineteenth century.
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Memorial to Stephen F. Austin in his birthplace
Sam Houston and Stephen Austin depicted on the Texas Centennial Issue postage stamp of 1936
Portrait of Austin, 1833
Marble sculpture of Stephen F. Austin (1903) by Elisabet Ney at the Texas State Capitol
Austin's 1836 map of Texas
Stephen F. Austin State Office Building
Stephen F. Austin grave monument at Texas State Cemetery in Austin, TexasIn their orbit 1
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About this person
Stephen Fuller Austin was an American-born empresario, i.e. a person granted the right to settle on land in exchange for recruiting and taking responsibility for settling the eastern areas of the Tejas region of Mexico in the early nineteenth century. Known as the "Father of Texas" and the founder of Anglo Texas, he led the second and, ultimately, the successful colonization of the region by bringing 300 families and their slaves from the United States in 1825.
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