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Stephen Fuller Austin: An Important Figure In Early Texas History

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“I make no more calculations except to spend my life here. Rich or poor, here I expect to remain permanently.” Stephen Fuller Austin was a very important figure in early Texas history. Austin was an American empresario born on November 3, 1793 in Austinville, Virginia and raised in Missouri. He was the second child of Moses and Mary Brown Austin; their first child, Eliza, only lived one month. His other siblings, Emily Austin Perry, and James E.B. Austin, were younger than Stephen. Stephen was never married and was not interested in marriage. When Stephen was four years old his family moved to Potosi, Missouri. At eleven years old he was sent back east to be educated and went to Bacon Academy in Colchester, Connecticut and then went to Transylvania

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