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5 unusual facts about Stephen F. Austin


Colonel John Henry Moore

Texan commander Stephen F. Austin ordered Moore to organize a cavalry company, who were outfitted with pistols and double-barreled shotguns.

Mary Brown Austin

Perhaps her most important contribution to history is writing a letter to her son, Stephen, two days before the death of her husband, Moses Austin, imploring Stephen F. Austin to carry out the dying wish of his father—that Stephen follow through with the Empresario grants for land settlement in Texas.

San Felipe, Texas

In the fall of same year, the site was chosen by Stephen F. Austin with the help of Baron de Bastrop to be the main site in Texas for colonization.

William Crump

Settling his family along the Brazos River east of Bellville, not far north of San Felipe, where Stephen F. Austin had earlier founded the headquarters of his first colony, Crump established a plantation.

Wythe County, Virginia

Wythe County is also home to the Austinville community which was founded by Stephen and his brother Moses Austin, father of the famous Stephen F. Austin.


Adolf Reinach

Besides his work in the area of phenomenology and philosophy in general, Reinach is credited for the development of a forerunner to the theory of speech acts by Austin and Searle: Die apriorischen Grundlagen des bürgerlichen Rechtes (The A Priori Foundations of Civil Law) is a systematic treatment of social acts as performative utterances and a priori foundations of civil law.

Alice Tuan

Tuan has facilitated playwright workshops at all levels throughout the United States, including MFA candidates at both the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas, Austin, and the California Institute of the Arts.

Allen Ranch

He arrived at the young town of Harrisburg (modern east Houston) and soon after married into the Thomas family which had come to Texas as part of Stephen F. Austin's original colony.

Anthony DeGrate

DeGrate was born in Waco, Texas and played college football for Stephen F. Austin.

Arthur Raymond Randolph

Judge Stephen Williams concurred in the judgment, disagreeing on the latter point.

Dimitri Kipiani

Stephen F. Jones, "Russian Imperial Administration and the Georgian Nobility: the Georgian Conspiracy of 1832," The Slavonic and East European Review, Vol.

Eric Posner

He clerked for Judge Stephen F. Williams of the D.C. Circuit.

Father Panik Village

The 1939 groundbreaking was attended by Congressman Albert E. Austin and Governor Wilbur L. Cross, both of whom gave speeches to mark the occasion.

Frank Austin

Frank P. Austin (1937–2002), interior designer and antique dealer

Geoffrey Warnock

Warnock and his co-editor J. O. Urmson performed an invaluable service to the development of "analytic" or "linguistic" philosophy by preparing for publication the papers of their friend and fellow Oxford linguistic philosopher J. L. Austin.

Henry Austin

Henry A. Austin (1833–1911), merchant and political figure in New Brunswick

Honor Oak Christian Fellowship Centre

The centre was the ministry base for its founder, the British evangelist and writer, T. Austin-Sparks, who had previously been the minister of the Honor Oak Baptist Church from 1921 to 1926.

Howard Shelanski

After graduating from law school he clerked for Judge Stephen F. Williams of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, Judge Louis H. Pollak of the U.S. District Court in Philadelphia, and Justice Antonin Scalia of the United States Supreme Court.

International Public Debate Association

Other schools that host tournaments include the University of Arkansas at Monticello, Stephen F. Austin State University, Bowling Green State University of Ohio, Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge, Union University, Louisiana State University at Alexandria, the University of Central Arkansas, Louisiana State University at Shreveport, Har-Ber High School, East Texas Baptist University, Sam Houston State University, and Mississippi College.

Jake T. Austin

In 2006, Austin landed the lead role of Angel Macias in his first live-action feature film, The Perfect Game based on a true story about the first non-U.S. team to win the 1957 Little League World Series, although the film wouldn't be released in the United States until more than three years after filming was completed, due to post-production financing difficulties.

Austin began his career in 2002 at the age of 7, with roles in commercials, and in 2003 he appeared in his first credited acting role as "Kid 1698" in a comedy sketch on the Late Show with David Letterman.

"It's an honor to be a part of such a respected series," Austin said in a statement to The Huffington Post.

James Austin

James E.B. Austin (1803–1829), Texan settler and brother of Stephen F. Austin, "The Father of Texas"

James P. Allison

Dr. Allison earned his B.S. in Microbiology in 1969 and his Ph.D. in Biological Science from the University of Texas, Austin in 1973.

John C. Austin

Hollywood Masonic Temple, Hollywood Boulevard, directly across the street from Grauman's Chinese Theater, 1921, added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985

King Pu-tsung

King earned his bachelor's degree in journalism from Taiwan's National Chengchi University, then studied abroad to earn a master's degree in mass communications from Texas Tech University and a Ph.D. in journalism from the University of Texas, Austin in United States.

Maxwell's demon

The March 2011 issue of Scientific American features an article by Professor Mark G. Raizen of the University of Texas, Austin which discusses the first realization of Maxwell's demon with gas phase particles, as originally envisioned by Maxwell.

Muslim Interscholastic Tournament

In February 2002, Siddiqi and her core team of volunteers at the University of Houston and alumni of the Muslim Students' Association at the University of Texas, Austin, implemented the first MIST with 118 students from Houston, Austin, and Dallas.

Performative turn

The concept of performance has been developed by such scholars as Richard Schechner, Victor Turner, Clifford Geertz, Erving Goffman, John Austin, John Searle, Pierre Bourdieu, Stern and Henderson, and Judith Butler.

Philip E. Austin

He was awarded the Bronze Star, the Joint Service Commendation Medal, and the Army Commendation Medal during his military duty.

Phyllis Konstam

She married the tennis star Bunny Austin in 1931, whom she met on a cruise liner while travelling to the US to appear in a stage production of Frank Vosper's Murder on the Second Floor, opposite her close friend Laurence Olivier.

Potosi, Missouri

Moses Austin came here in 1798 with his family, including his son Stephen F. Austin.

Richard G. Austin

After an honorable discharge he returned home and went back to work in one month.

Sandra Laugier

Sandra Laugier extensively worked on J. L. Austin and L. Wittgenstein; she also introduced several aspects of American philosophy to French readers (Emerson, Thoreau, but above all Stanley Cavell).

Stephen F. Austin State Park

Habitat is typical East Texas riparian, upland areas are mostly pecan trees, while river bottom areas are dominated by cottonwoods and hackberry.

Stephen F. Barker

Its five chapters concern Euclidean and non-Euclidean geometry, and literalist and non-literalist views on the meaning of numbers.

Stephen F. Burkard

On January 23, 1935, he was arrested at his home in Woodside, Queens, on a bench warrant for first degree grand larceny.

Stephen F. Kelly

He has written a number of biographies of football managers including Bill Shankly, Sir Alex Ferguson, Kenny Dalglish and Gerard Houllier as well as an oral history of Liverpool Football Club.

Stephen Martin

Stephen F. Martin, American chemist and professor of chemistry at the University of Texas at Austin

Steve Brudniak

He has worked from his Bouldin Creek, Austin, Texas studio for over two decades, producing art that has been exhibited in over 100 gallery and museum exhibitions.

T. Austin

Ed Austin (T. Edward Austin, Jr., 1926–2011), American politician and attorney

Thanhha Lai

Lai graduated from University of Texas, Austin with a degree in journalism and from 1988 worked about two years for the Orange County, California newspaper The Register, covering Little Saigon, the local Vietnamese community.

The Study Society

Recent speakers have included: Rupert Spira, Iain McGilchrist, James H. Austin, Matthew Fox, Rupert Sheldrake, Dr Denis Alexander, Dr Peter Fenwick, Chris Frith.

Warren Barhorst

Barhorst attended Stephen F. Austin University in Nacogdoches, Texas, from August 1983 until December 1986 when he transferred to Texas A&M where he went on to earn a Bachelor’s of Science Degree in Industrial Distribution in December 1988.

Watchman Nee

Through Barber, Watchman Nee was introduced to the writings of D.M. Panton, Robert Govett, G.H. Pember, Jessie Penn-Lewis, T. Austin-Sparks, and others.

William Joel Bryan

In 1831, William Joel Bryan's mother (Emily) and stepfather James Franklin Perry followed Stephen F. Austin to Texas.

Woods Fund of Chicago

R. Eden Martin - (Director 1997–2005) - Partner (1975–2004), Chairman of the Management Committee (1989–1999), Of counsel (2005– ), Sidley & Austin; President (1999– ), Civic Committee and the Commercial Club of Chicago


see also

Emily Perry

Emily Austin Perry (1795–1851), early settler of Texas and sole heir to Stephen F. Austin

Mary Brown Austin

Mary Brown Austin was the mother of Stephen F. Austin and Emily Austin Perry, James Elijah Brown Austin, and wife of Moses Austin.

Poultry Bowl

The bowl was aimed at small colleges that didn't have bowl opportunities, and for the initial game, the selection committee also considered Elon, Jacksonville State, Troy, Grabmling, Carson Newman and Jackson State before settling on Stephen F. Austin and Gardner-Webb.