Austin was born in southwestern Virginia, Nov. 3, 1793, and died in Dec. 27, 1836. Taking into consideration the difficulties of his mission, the completeness of his task for its achievement, and its influential outcome, Stephen F. Austin is claimed to be the most colonial proprietary in American history. He was famous as "The Father of Texas".
Stephen F. Austin founded the first Anglo-American colony in the Tejas province of Mexico and made it develop into an independent republic. For the hundreds of families he brought into this state because of the quite poor economic situations in the United States at the time, Stephen F. Austin was doing extremely well in recruiting families to move to Texas. His family shifted to Missouri when he was five years old. After four years of schooling at Yale College, he came back to Missouri, where he had a diverse career as a storekeeper, manager of the family lead mining business, as well as director of a failed bank. He worked as a militia officer and was a member of the Missouri territorial administration from 1814 to 1820. In 1820, Arkansas' governor selected him as a circuit judge.
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