L B Austin
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Title L B Austin Date 20 Feb 1897 Date Viewed 30 Mar 2025 Page 1 Periodical Santa Cruz Surf Place Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA USA Source Type Newspaper URL https://www.newspapers.com/article/santa-cruz-surf-lb-austin-obituary/169233607/ Source ID S672 Text L. B. Austin.
A respected pioneer and estimable citizen died Saturday morning in the per800 of Mr. L. B. Austin, father of Mise Annie Austin of this city.
Mr. Austin was a man who had seen many vicissitudes in this life, but through all its experiences preserved his integrity and the reepect of his fellow citizens. Mr. Austin was born Feb. 20, 1819, in Addison county, Vermont. His family afterwarde moved to Oswego, N. Y., and thence to Indiana. In 1840 he went to Cleveland, Ohio, and then to Iowa two years later. He crossed the plains in 1849, and was Sergeant-at-Arms of California's first Legislature.
From 1851 to 1868 he lived in Nevada county. He afterwarde resided for time in Hollieter and in Monterey, coming to Santa Cruz in 1877.
He leaves a widow, one daughter, and a brother G. W. Austin, living in Hollister. His health has been so poor for many years that he had retired from all active business.
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