Aleppo Granville Austin
Mar 1859 - 1944
diedArizona, USA
bornTexas, USA
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BiographyCame to Tempe in 1888.Farmer.
In 1879, his family moved to Frio County, Texas. In 1880, he and two of his brothers, William S. and Charles O. Austin, worked on the International and Great Northern Raiload, running from San Antonio to Laredo. When drought struck Texas, they left Texas and headed for the Arizona Territory. The party included his father, A. W. Austin, and his uncle, Perry Wilson. They entered Arizona near Fort Bowie, and then went to Willcox, Florence, Sacaton and Mesa, and arrived in Tempe on July 4, 1888. From Tempe the family moved out to Phoenix and to the Cartwright School neighborhood. In December 1889, they leased the old Lum Gray section near Tempe and remained there until the spring of 1892, when they removed to a home on Mill Avenue just south of town.
Had an ice business at 6th and Mill in 1899.
Tempe City Councilman, 1896-1898.
Kyrene School Dist. Governing Board, c1911-1914.
OSB 75, OSB 77, OSB 92
BIO-Austin
Old Settlers Collection, THM
Federal census (Tempe), 1900, 1910
Double Butte Cemetery, Tempe
TH-311
Furlong, Story of Kyrene, p. 24
Tempe CD, 1892-1914
Person TypeIndividual
