Austin, Arthur E – Aver, Henry Ogden
Austin, Arthur E
business man, legislator, was born July 23, 1868, in Providence, R. I. He was educated in the public schools of said city; has been for the past two years a member of the town council, and representative since 1896; and in 1897 was elected a member of the Rhode Island state legislature.
Austin, Arthur Williams
lawyer, author, was born in 1807, in Massachusetts. He was a lawyer of Boston; and the author of The Woman and the Queen; and Other Specimens of Verse. He died in 1884.
Austin, Benjamin
merchant, author, was born Nov. 18, 1752, in Boston, Mass. He was a Boston merchant, active as a political writer, and an especially violent champion of democracy. Constitutional Republicanism is a collection of some of his contributions to the newspapers of his day. He died May 4, 1820, in Boston, Mass.
Austin, Coe Finch
botanist, author, was born June 20, 1831, in Finchville, N. Y. He was a botanist of Closter, N. Y.; and published Musci Appalachani, a description of American mosses. He died March 18, 1880, in Closter, N. Y.
Austin, David
clergyman, author, was born in 1760 in New Haven, Conn.
He was graduated at Yale college in 1779; and in 1788 was settled as the presbyterian minister in Elizabethtown, N. J. He published The American Preacher, by various ministers; The Downfall of Babylon; a Commentary on the Bible; and several millennial pamphlets and sermons. He died Feb. 5, 1831, in Norwich, Conn.
Austin, Frederick Ellsworth
lawyer, legislator, was born Aug. 6, 1865, in Taunton, Mass. He served in the city council of Taunton, Mass., where he has attained prominence as a political leader.
In 1894 he was elected as a member of the Massachusetts state legislature.
Austin, George Curtis
lawyer, legislator, was born July 19, 1863, in Saluria, Pa. He is engaged in the practice of law in New York city, and was until recently instructor in the law contracts at the New York Law school. He was elected a member of the New York assembly in 1895.
Austin, George Lowell
physician, author, was born in 1849 in Massachusetts. He was a Boston physician whose miscellaneous writings include Perils of American Women, a Doctor's Talk with Maiden, Wife, and Mother; Water Analysis, a Handbook for Water- Drinkers; Under the Tide; Life of Franz Schubert; Popular History of Massachusetts; Life and Deeds of General Grant; Longfellow; and Life of Wendell Phillips.
He died in 1893.
Austin, Harriet Bunker
author, poet, was born Dec. 29, 1844, in Erie, Pa.
Her great-grandfather, Benjamin Bunker, was a soldier of the revolution, and was killed in the battle of Bunker Hill. The hill from which the battle was named comprised part of the Bunker estate. She received her education in the Woodstock High school and Dr. Todd's Female seminary. She has been a prolific writer; and many of her poems have been set to music. She is the wife of Mr. W. B.
Austin, a prosperous merchant of Woodstock, Ill., in which city she lends her influence to every reform.
Austin, Helen Vickroy
journalist, horticulturist, was born in 1829, in Miamisburg, Ohio. As a writer of sketches and essays, and as a reporter and correspondent she has exhibited marked capacity; but she is best known by her writings for the agricultural and horticultural press.
Austin, Henry
lawyer, author, was born in 1856 in Massachusetts. He is a lawyer of Boston, who has written The Law Concerning Farms; American Farm and Game Laws; American Fish and Game Laws; and Liquor Law in New England.
Austin, Henry Willard
journalist, poet, was born in 1858. He is a journalist of Boston, and the author of Vagabond Verses.
Austin, Horace
soldier, lawyer, jurist, governor of Minnesota, was born in 1831 in Connecticut. He received an academic education; taught school; removed to Maine, and there studied law. In 1856 he removed to Minnesota, where he practiced his profession. He served as a captain against the Indians in 1863; in 1864 was elected a district judge; in 1869 was elected governor of Minnesota, and re-elected for a second term. On account of his health he retired to private life until 1876, when he was appointed third auditor of the United States treasury in Washington.
Austin, James Trecothick
lawyer, author, was born Jan. 7, 1784, in Boston, Mass. He was a prominent lawyer of Boston, and published a Life of Elbridge Gerry. He died May 8, 1870, in Boston, Mass.
Austin, Jane Goodwin
novelist, was born Feb. 25, 1831, in Worcester, Mass. She was the author of Standish of Standish; Betty Alden; The Nameless Nobleman; Dr. LeBaron and His Daughters; and various other works. She was also the author of numerous meritorious poems; and her contributions to the literature of early New England possess a rare value. She died March 30, 1894, in Boston, Mass.
Austin, Jonathan Loring
patriot, was born Jan. 2, 1748, in Boston, Mass.
He was graduated at Harvard college in 1766, and became a merchant in Portsmouth, N. H. He was secretary to the Massachusetts board of war until October, 1777, and was sent to France with dispatches to Dr. Franklin announcing the defeat of Burgoyne and asking for clothing and stores for the army. He was a state senator for several terms, and elected state treasurer, and subsequently secretary of state. He died May 10, 1826, in Boston, Mass.
Austin, Jonathan Williams
soldier, was born April 18, 1751, in Boston, Mass. He was graduated at Harvard in 1769; studied law in the office of John Adams, and admitted to the bar in 1772.
In the Middlesex convention in 1774 he was chairman of the committee that drew up the resolutions. He served as a major in the revolutionary war, and was commandant at Castle William in 1776.
He died in 1778 in the south.
Austin, Moses
Texan pioneer, was born in Durham, Conn. He removed to the west in 1798, and engaged in lead mining. In 1820 he went to Texas, and from Bexar forwarded to the Mexican commandant at Monterey a petition for permission to colonize three hundred American families in that section. Returning to Missouri in search of emigrants, he was robbed and exposed to hardships that caused his death. The Mexican authorities granted a tract of land for a colony, and his son, Stephen F. Austin, founded the settlement. He died June 10, 1821, in Louisiana.
Austin, Samuel
clergyman, college president, author, was born Oct. 7, 1760, 1 in New Haven, Conn. He was a congregational clergyman of Worcester, Mass, 1790-1815, and afterwards president of the University of Vermont. He was the author of Views of the Church; Theological Essays; and Letters on Baptism. He died Dec. 4, 1830, in Glastonbury, Conn.
Austin, Stephen F
founder of the state of Texas, was born about 1790. In 1821 he conducted a party of emigrants from New Orleans to take possession of a tract of land granted to his father by the Mexican government, and they settled where the city of Austin now stands. In 1833 the Texas colonists formed a constitution, and applied for admission to the Mexican confederacy, but Mexico being in a state of anarchy, he failed to find recognition. In 1835 he went as commissioner to the United States to promote the liberation of Texas from Mexico, but did not live to see it admitted into the Union. He died Dec. 27, 1836, in Texas.
Austin, William
lawyer, author, was born March 2, 1778, in Charlestown, Mass. He was a Boston lawyer whose best claim to remembrance is that he was author of the famous sketch Peter Rugg, the Missing Man, which appeared in the New England Galaxy in 1824. It is a very remarkable imaginative study that in some respects anticipates the later work of Hawthorne. Other works of his are Letters from London; and The Human Character of Jesus Christ. He died June 27, 1841, in Charlestown, Mass.
Austin, William Harvey
lawyer, state senator, was born Oct. 22, 1859, in Binghamton, N. Y. He came to Wisconsin in the spring of 1869 and settled at Portage City; moved to Milwaukee in 1871, where he has practiced law since 1879. In 1880 and 1881 he was assistant district attorney for Milwaukee county; was school commissioner in 1889; and was appointed assistant city attorney of the city of Milwaukee in 1890; and was city attorney in 1891. In the fall of 1892 he was elected to the Wisconsin state assembly upon the republican ticket from the fifteenth and sixteenth wards; he was the unanimous choice of his party for speaker during the session of 1893. In the fall of 1894 he was elected state senator.
Austrian, Joseph
merchant, was born Sept. 15, 1833, in Bavaria. About 1882 the interests were consolidated under the name of the Lake Michigan and Lake Superior Transportation company, Mr. Austrian being elected the general manager, which office he yet holds. The company now operates six excellent steamers. The magnificent Manitou, the finest steel passenger steamer on the lakes, was added to the fleet in 1893. Mr.
Austrian has an interest in the Mastodon Iron company, near Crystal Falls, Mich., of which he has always been secretary and treasurer.
Avann, Ella H. Brockway
educator, was born May 20, 1853, in Newaygo, Mich. In 1871 she graduated from the Albion college of Michigan; and subsequently became preceptress of that institution. She filled the chair of English literature and also lectured on the history of music. For ten years she was president of the Woman's Foreign Missionary society; makes frequent contributions to the religious press; and holds official positions in various literary, social and benevolent societies.
Aver, Henry Ogden
architect, was born Jan. 31, 1852, in Brooklyn, N. Y.
He designed monuments and mortuary chapels, as well as houses of very notable excellence. He died April 30, 1890, in New York city.