Austin

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With courage and steadfast patience, the great empresario and statesman Stephen Fuller Austin became the Father of Texas. A quiet, cultured man, he took up his father's dream of bringing Anglo settlers to Texas. He promised those settlers clear title to their land and for fifteen years lived on the frontier without his family and the music and books he loved. He died just as Texas gained its independence, but he had kept his promise. Perhaps his best monument is the massive book in the Texas General Land Office, where he recorded the grants made to his colonists.