STEPHEN F. AUSTIN

Who is Stephen F. Austin?

• He was an American Empresario born in Virginia and raised in Missouri.
• He is the father of Texas.

PATH TO TEXAS

• His father had made a deal with Mexico to send 300 colonies to Texas.
• His dying father told him to complete this wish.
• Stephen moved to Texas and brought the 300 families with him.

TIME

• This took place between 1825 and 1830.

LOCATION

• Austin's colony was between the Brazos and Colorado rivers.

LEGACY

• We remember him as the father of Texas.

MISC

• He had a group that would become the Texas rangers protect his colonists.

MISC

• He was a member of Louisiana lodge No. 111 and sought to establish free masonry in Texas.

MISC

• Austin was established warden master of the lodge.

MISC

• Austin fought Texan rebellions alongside Mexico.