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Stephen Fuller Austin: A Brief Biography

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Stephen Fuller Austin,son of Moses and Maria (Brown) Austin, was born at the lead mines in southwestern Virginia on November 3, 1793. In 1798, at age 4, his family moved to other lead mines in southeastern Missouri. There Austin grew to the age of ten, when his father then sent him to Bacon Academy school in Connecticut, from which he went to Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky for two years. After graduating in 1810, he then stayed with Joseph H. Hawkins and began studying to be a lawyer. For several years he was a member of the Missouri territorial legislature, in which he was influential in obtaining the charter for the Bank of St. Louis. After being left poor (due to the Panic of 1819), Austin investigated opportunities for

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