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See also:AUSTIN, See also:STEPHEN See also:FULLER (1793-1836) , See also:American See also:pioneer, was See also:born in Austinville, Wythe See also:county, See also:Virginia, on the 3rd of See also:November 1793. He was the son of See also:Moses Austin (1767-1821), a native of See also:Durham, See also:Connecticut, who in 182o obtained from See also:Mexico a See also:- GRANT (from A.-Fr. graunter, O. Fr. greanter for creanter, popular Lat. creantare, for credentare, to entrust, Lat. credere, to believe, trust)
- GRANT, ANNE (1755-1838)
- GRANT, CHARLES (1746-1823)
- GRANT, GEORGE MONRO (1835–1902)
- GRANT, JAMES (1822–1887)
- GRANT, JAMES AUGUSTUS (1827–1892)
- GRANT, ROBERT (1814-1892)
- GRANT, SIR ALEXANDER
- GRANT, SIR FRANCIS (1803-1878)
- GRANT, SIR JAMES HOPE (1808–1895)
- GRANT, SIR PATRICK (1804-1895)
- GRANT, U
- GRANT, ULYSSES SIMPSON (1822-1885)
grant of See also:land for an American See also:colony in See also:Texas, but died before he could carry out his project. The son was educated in New See also:London, Connecticut, and at Transylvania University, See also:Lexington, See also:Kentucky, and settled in See also:Missouri, where he was a member of the territorial legislature from 1813 to 1819. In 1819 he removed to See also:Arkansas Territory, where he was appointed a See also:circuit See also:judge. After his See also:father's See also:death he obtained a See also:confirmation of the Texas grants from the newly established Mexican See also:government, and in 1821—1823 he established a colony of several See also:hundred American families on the Brazos See also:river, the See also:principal See also:town being named, in his See also:honour, See also:San Felipe de Austin. He was a See also:firm defender of the rights of the Americans in Texas, and in 1833 he was sent to the See also:city of Mexico to See also:present a See also:petition from a See also:convention in Texas praying for the erection of a See also:separate See also:state government. While there, despairing of success for his petition, he wrote See also:home recommending the organization of a state without waiting for the consent of the Mexican See also:congress. This See also:letter falling into the hands of the Mexican government, Austin, while returning home, was arrested at Saltine', carried as a prisoner back to Mexico, and imprisoned for a See also:year without trial. Returning to Texas in 1835, he found the Texans in armed revolt against Mexican See also:rule, and was chosen See also:commander-in-See also:chief of the revolutionary forces, but after failing to take San See also:Antonio he resigned the command, for which he had never considered himself fitted, and in November 1835 went to the See also:United States as a See also:commissioner to secure loans and supplies, and to learn the position the United States authorities would be likely to take in the event of a See also:declaration of Texan See also:independence. He succeeded in raising large sums, and received assurances that satisfied him that Americans would look with See also:great favour on an See also:independent Texas. Returning to Texas in the summer of 1836, he became a See also:candidate, rather reluctantly, for the See also:presidency of the newly established See also:republic of Texas, but was defeated by See also:Samuel See also:Houston, under whom he was secretary of state until his sudden death on the 7th of See also:December 1836.
See A Comprehensive See also:History of Texas, edited by D. G. Wooten (2 vols., See also:Dallas, 1898).
End of Article: AUSTIN, STEPHEN FULLER (1793-1836)
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