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: 53
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53
BRIEF HISTORY OF STEPHEN F. AUSTIN.
A son of Moses and Mary Brown Austin.
Born in Austinville, Wythe County, Virginia. November 3.
1793.
Moved to Louisiana (now Missouri) in 1798.
Early school days were spent at St. Genevieve. Mo.
In 1804 he was sent to Springfield. Conn.. and placed under a
private tutor, Rev. Horace Holley; he later attended school at Colchester
and New London.
In 1808 he resumed his studies at the Transylvania University,
in Lexington, Ky.
In 1810, returned home in Missouri. and went into business
with his father in lead mining and smelting.
In 1813 he was elected to the Territorial legislature of Missouri,
holding office till 1819.
In 1819 he and his father formed the plan of settling a colony
in Texas, and the same year went to Arkansas in the interest of
the plan.
While in Arkansas he laid off a town. which his brother-in-law,
James Bryan, named Little Rock.
In 1820 he was made one of the circuit judges by Territorial
Governor Miller.
In 1820 he went to New Orleans to make the requisite arrangements
for aiding his father, who had gone to Bexar (San Antonio)
to obtain grants of land for colonization.
In 1821, June 18, he started from New Orleans on the steamboat
Beaver for Texas.
In 1821, July 20, while at Natchitoches, he learned of his
father's death, and determined to carry out the colonization
plans.
In 1821, August 12, he arrived in San Antonio, where he
learned of Mexico's independence.
In 1821, December, he arrived with his first immigrants.
In 1822 he went to Mexico to have his colonization plans validated
by the new government, and, because of the unsettled state
of affairs, was compelled to remain there a year.
In 1823 the town of San Felipe de Austin was established as
the site of the colony's business affairs.
In 1824. 1825 and 1826 arrangements were made for the settlement
of additional families to the 300 first provided for in the
original grant, to the number of 1200.
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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/m1/57/?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.