Austin
Austin names 6 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Austin a city, capital of the State of Texas
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
a city, capital of the State of Texas, and county-seat of Travis co.; on the Colorado river and the Houston and Texas Central, the International and Great Northern, the Missouri, Kansas, and Texas, and the Austin and Northwestern railroads; 230 miles N. W. of Galveston. It derives large power for manufacturing from the river, and the principal industries are the manufacture of oil, lumber, iron, flour, tanned leather, etc. Besides the State Capitol, the city contains the main buildings of the State University, State asylums, the State Confederate Home, and the State Land Office. The Capitol, which cost $3,000,- 000, is in a square of 10 acres, in which are also the Supreme Court and Treasury buildings. The river is here spanned by two bridges, and the recent construction of a dam in it has given the city a large and beautiful stretch of water known as Lake McDonald. This lake has become a favorite resort for fishing, hunting, and health-seeking parties, and is widely known from the facts that two international regattas have been rowed on it, and that Stanbury, of Australia, here won the championship of the world. The city was originally known as Waterloo; was named after Stephen F. Austin, in 1837; became the capital of the Republic blic of Texas in 1839; the capital of the State in 1872. Pop. (1910) 29,860; (1920) 34,876.
Austin OSCAR PHELPS, an American statistician
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
OSCAR PHELPS, an American statistician, born in Newark, Ill. He was educated in the public schools and for several years engaged in newspaper work. He was chief of the Bureau of Statistics of the Department of Commerce and Labor, and remained in this post until its transfer to the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, of which he was made assistant chief. From 1903 to 1914 he was professor of commerce and statistics at George Washington University, and since 1914 statistician of the for foreign trade department d of the National City Bank. He was a member of several economic societies. He wrote "Uncle Sam's Secrets," "Uncle Sam's Soldiers," "Colonial Systems of cial Japan," ," "Comthe World," "Commercial mercial South and Central America," "Great Canals of the World," "Manufacturing Systems of the World," "Economics of World Trade," "International Commerce," and other works.
Austin STEPHEN FULLER, an American pioneer
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
STEPHEN FULLER, an American pioneer, born in Austinville, Va., Nov. 31, 1793; a son of Moses Austin, the real founder of the State of Texas, who, about 1820, obtained permission from the Mexican Government to establish an American colony in Texas, but died before his plans were accomplished. Stephen took up the work unfinished by by his father, and located a thrifty colony on the site of the present city of Austin, in 1821. Subsequently he was a commissioner to urge the admission of Texas into the Mexican Union; was imprisoned there for several months; and in 1835 was a commissioner to the United States Government to secure the recognition of Texas as an independent State. He died in Columbia, Tex, Dec. 25, 1836.
Austin ALFRED, an English poet
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
ALFRED, an English poet, critic, and journalist, born at Headingly, near Leeds, May 30, 1835. He graduated from the University of London in 1853, was called to the bar in 1857, and was editor of the "National Review," 1883- 1893. He was appointed poet laureate of England in 1896. He is the author of political books, novels and many volumes of verse. The latter include "The Human Tragedy" (1862); "The Tower of Babel," a drama (1874); "Savonarola," a tragedy (1881); and "Veronica's Garden," in prose and verse (1895); "Haunts of Ancient Peace" (1902); "A Lesson in Harmony" (1904). Died June 2, 1913.
Austin a city of Minnesota
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
a city of Minnesota, the county-seat of Mower co. It is on the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul, and the Chicago Great Western railroads, and on the Red Cedar river. The city is the seat of the Southern Minnesota University and has parks, a Carnegie library, a county court house, and other important public buildings. It is the center of a fertile agricultural community and has industries, including meat packing, flour mills, foundry, cement works, roller mills, etc. Pop. (1910) 6,960; (1920) 10,118.
Austin MARY HUNTER, an American writer
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
MARY HUNTER, an American writer, born in Carlinville, Ill., in 1868. She graduated from Blackburn University in 1888. In 1891 she married Stafford W. Austin. The scenes of her novels are mostly laid in California. She wrote "The Land of Little Rain" (1903); "The Flock" (1906); "The Basket Woman" (1904); "Love and the Soul- Maker" (1914); "The Ford" (1917); etc. She also wrote several plays.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Collier's counted 34,876 people in Austin, Texas in 1920 and described a town of flour mills, tanneries and a boating lake; the 2020 census counted about 962,000 in the city and roughly 2.3 million in the metropolitan area, built on state government, the University of Texas and a technology industry that arrived with Texas Instruments, IBM and later Dell. The "large and beautiful stretch of water known as Lake McDonald" no longer exists under that name f5f the dam that made it had already failed in 1900, and today's Lake Austin sits behind the Tom Miller Dam completed in the 1940s. Austin, Minnesota, whose "meat packing" Collier's mentions in passing, is the home of Hormel and of Spam, with a museum devoted to the product; its population is now about 26,000. Of the people, Mary Hunter Austin (died 1934) has worn best: "The Land of Little Rain" is now a standard of American nature writing, while Alfred Austin is generally regarded as the weakest of the poets laureate.
Written for this edition, 2026.