Account of the Removal of the Remains of Stephen F. Austin from Peach Point Cemetery in Brazoria County, Texas to State Cemetery, Austin, Texas, October 18 to 20, 1910 Page: 46
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was also a man of learning, as well as a man of experience, having
attended school in New England during his early days and
later, just prior to entering into business with his father, took
a two years course in the Transylvania University.
Being known as a man of learning, popular and unusual business
experience and ability, the announcement that Stephen F.
Austin was at the head of a colony in Texas, hundreds of the
best families sought him out, knowing that he would conscientiously
look to their mutual interest, and feeling certain they
would succeed. Their confidence was not misplaced, as his colonists
not only prospered, but their land titles were looked to
with a zeal that characterized all his business dealings, with the
result that they have never been questioned, as subsequent history
of the State courts will show.
SOME CHARACTERISTICS.
If Austin was anything, he was unselfish. He realized to the
fullest that on the success of his colony depended his own. If
Austin was anything, he was grateful, he delighted to serve
those men and women who had come into a wilderness to help
him make his colony a success. If Austin hated anything, he
hated failure; he would have spent his last dollar and consumed
every spark of his life or energy, or make his colony in Texas a
success. He was a good lawyer, and he knew that the title to
his lands and the lands of his colonists in Texas must be beyond
question, realizing that the time would come when the courts
would be called upon to decide vexing questions. At the time
of his setlement in Texas there was internal dissension in Mexico,
and immediately upon his arrival in Texas there were changes
in the Mexican government. In 1822 he made the trip to Mexico
City to have his title and that of his colonists in Texas validated
beyond the shadow of a doubt. After more than a year of patient
waiting he succeeded to the minutest detail.
A SUCCESSFUL DIPLOMAT.
Austin was a diplomat. His position in Mexico was a difficult
one. He made friends with both factions, and while one
faction was in power he managed to make friends with it, and
at the same time not gain the enmity of the opposition. The
result was, that he stood as high in the estimation of the officials
under the republic as under the empire.
When in Mexico in the interest of his grant of land, Austin
was neither clothed in buckskin or bison hide, but he was dressed
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Bryan, Guy M., Jr. Account of the Removal of the Remains of Stephen F. Austin from Peach Point Cemetery in Brazoria County, Texas to State Cemetery, Austin, Texas, October 18 to 20, 1910, book, 1911; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth38129/m1/50/?q=Lamar+University: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Austin History Center, Austin Public Library.