Stephen F. Austin: Father Of Texas

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Stephen F. Austin was born in Virginia and was raised in Southeastern Missouri. Stephen F. Austin was known as the “Father of Texas” when he found of the Anglo-American Texas. In 1813, at the age of twenty-one years, he was elected to the territorial Legislature of Missouri, and was reelected to that position each year until 1819, when he moved to Arkansas. Meanwhile, Stephen's father, Moses Austin, received a grant of land in Texas for purposes of