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idence, R.I. He graduated from the Union hall school of Providence, of which his father was principal. He has traveled extensively in foreign countries; and until 1883 was in the wool business. For the past twentyfive years he has been engaged in genealogical and literary work; and is a life member of the Rhode Island historical society. He is

the author of The Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island; The Ancestry of Thirty-three Rhode Islanders; The Ancestral Dictionary; One Hundred and Sixty Allied Families; Philip and Philippa; and A Week's Wooing. Austin, Jonathan Loring, merchant, patriwas born Jan. 2, 1748, in Boston, Mass. He became a merchant in Portsmouth, N.H. He was secretary to the Massachusetts board of war until 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; was elected state treasurer; and was subsequently secretary of state. He died May 10, 1826, in Boston, Mass. Austin, Jonathan Williams, soldier, lawyer, was born April 18, 1751, in Boston, Mass. He graduated from Harvard in 1769; studied law in the office of John Adams and was 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 ot,



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Austin, Louis Winslow, physician, author, was born Oct. 30, 1867, in Orwell, Vt. In 1893-1901 he was an instructor in the university of Wisconsin; and since 1904 has been connected with the bureau of standards at Washington, D.C. He is the author of Physical

Measurement. Martha W.,

Austin,

litterateur,

author,

was born in New Orleans, La. She is the author of Veronica; and Tristram and Isoult.

Mary Hunter,

educator, authSept. 9, 1868, in Carlinville. 111. In 1888 she graduated from Blackburn university; and in 1891 married Stafford W. Austin. In 1900 she taught in the

Austin, Mrs.

or, poet,

was born

Los Angeles normal school. She is the author of The Land of Little Rain; and The Basket Woman and Isidro. Austin, Moses, pioneer, founder, 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, Oscar Phelps, journalist, governofficial, author, was born in 1845 in Illinois. Since 1898 he has been chief of the bureau of statistics in the treasury department at Washington, D.C. He is the author of Uncle Sam's Secrets; Uncle Sam's Soldiers; Colonial Systems of the World; and Submarine Telegraphs of the World.

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Austin, Richard Wilson, lawyer, diplomat, congressman, was born Aug. 26, 1857, in Decatur, Ala. In 1877 he graduated with the degree of A.B. from the university of Tennessee; and in 1881 graduated with the degree of LL.B. from

Columbian law the school of Washington, D.C. He practiced law Tenn.; in Knoxville, and was manager of the Knoxville Daily Chronicle. For eight years he was United States marshal for the eastern district of Tennessee and in 1906-08 was American consul to Glasgow, Scotland. In 1909-11 he was a representative from Tennessee to the sixty-first congress.

Austin, Samuel, clergyman, college presidwas born Oct. 7, 1760, in New Haven, Conn. In 1790-1815 he was a congregational clergyman of Worcester, Mass.; and 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. ent, author,



Austin, Stephen F., founder of the state 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, poet, was born March 2, 1778, iii Charlestown, Mass. He was a lawyer of Boston, Mass.; and his 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. Other works of his are Letters from London; and The Human Character of Jesus Christ. He died June 27, 1841, in Charlestown, Mass. Austin, W. L., manufacturer, millionaire, of Philadelphia, Pa. He is a member of the firm of Burnham, Williams and company, locomotive builders of Philadelphia, Pa.; and a director in various industrial corporations. of Texas,