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Oct 04, 1761 Durham, Connecticut, United States Died on 10 Jun 1821 (aged 59)
American businessman
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About Moses Austin
- Moses Austin (October 4, 1761 – June 10, 1821) was an American businessman and pioneer who played a large part in the development of the lead industry in the early United States.
- He was the father of Stephen F.
- Austin, one of the earliest American settlers of Texas, which was at the time part of Mexico. After receiving a land grant from the Spanish Crown in 1820, Moses Austin planned to be the first to establish an Anglo-American settlement in Spanish Texas, but he died before his dream was realized.
- On his deathbed, he pleaded his son to fulfill his dream to colonize Texas.
- Stephen led the colony to a now-sovereign Mexico in 1825, and in time, the settlers demanded autonomy and later won independence from Mexico under President Antonio López de Santa Anna, thereby establishing the Republic of Texas.
