USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Often called “The Father of Texas, ” Stephen F. Austin carved out his place in history by bringing thousands of settlers to Mexican Texas from the United States. By the time he died in December 1836, Austin had settled over 1, 500 families and built the foundation of what had just become the Republic of Texas.

Detailed explanation-2: -Moses Austin, founder of the American lead industry and the first man to obtain permission to bring Anglo-American settlers into Spanish Texas, son of Elias and Eunice (Phelps) Austin, was born in Durham, Connecticut, on October 4, 1761. He was in the fifth generation of his line of Austins in America.

Detailed explanation-3: -Stephen Austin, in full Stephen Fuller Austin, (born November 3, 1793, Austinville, Virginia, U.S.-died December 27, 1836, Columbia, Republic of Texas [now West Columbia, Texas]), founder in the 1820s of the principal settlements of English-speaking people in Texas when that territory was still part of Mexico.

Detailed explanation-4: -One of the most famous empresarios, Stephen F. Austin, brought 300 families to settle Texas – a group sometimes referred to as the “Old Three Hundred.” The tracts offered were vast – 4, 605 acres for each family. As empresario, Austin would be compensated with an even larger parcel of land.