Statue of Moses Austin, the father of the “Father of Texas,” brighter after husband-and-wife team use acidic cleaner and apply a wax coating.
In its location behind City Hall, the statue — reaching 15 feet with its bronze base and granite pedestal —, where the real Moses Austin applied for a land grant and permission to start the first colony of American settlers in Spanish Texas. Turned down at first by the provincial governor, Austin chanced to meet the faux-noble Baron de Bastrop, then a town official, who interceded successfully on his behalf.
Connecticut native Moses Austin, shown in this undated portrait, was a merchant and miner whose business interests had taken him to Virginia and Missouri. He was the first American approved to found a colony in Spanish Texas, shortly before his death in 1821 from pneumonia.Austin was a Connecticut native who also had lived in Virginia and Missouri. He started out as a merchant; but when he moved to Missouri, he became a miner, joining the lead-mining industry there.
On his way back from San Antonio, however, he had a terrible trip, surviving for a time on roots and berries and contracting pneumonia. He died June 10, 1821 — but not before passing on his dream. A letter from his widow, Mary, also called Maria, exhorts her son Stephen to carry on his father’s Texas venture. “He begged me to tell you to take his place: ‘Tell dear Stephen that it is his dying father’s last request to prosecute the enterprise he had commenced.’”agreed to take over as colony empresario or recruiter/manager, and after a few years of political changes and negotiations, brought the first 300 Anglo-American families to Texas. He went on to develop four more colonies.
So Moses Austin was the father of “the Father of Texas,” as Stephen F. Austin has been called . Among many other Texas historical figures proposed for Centennial statues, Austin the elder was one of the few who made the cut for San Antonio’s share of the memorial funds.
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