USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Austin was the empresario of the colony of Texas. He was known as the Father of Texas. He settled Texas under his father’s land grant with the government of Spain.

Detailed explanation-2: -Stephen F. Austin (November 3, 1793–December 27, 1836) was a lawyer, settler, and administrator who played a key role in the secession of Texas from Mexico. He brought hundreds of U.S. families into Texas on behalf of the Mexican government, which wished to populate the isolated northern state.

Detailed explanation-3: -A new city was built quickly in the wilderness, and was named after Stephen F. Austin, “the father of Texas.” Judge Edwin Waller, who was later to become the city’s first mayor, surveyed the site and laid out a street plan that has survived largely intact to this day.