page_title: List of people from Texas
section_title: Founders and early settlers of Texas
hierarchical_section_title: List of people from Texas / Founders and early settlers of Texas
caption_attribution_description: Stephen F. Austin
context_page_description: The following are notable people who were either born, raised or have lived for a significant period of time in the U.S. state of Texas.
context_section_description: Augustus Chapman Allen (1806–1864), founder of Houston
  Charlotte Baldwin Allen (1805–1895), financed founding of Houston, known as the "mother of Houston"
  John Kirby Allen (1810–1838), founder of Houston
  Stephen F. Austin (1793–1836), "father of Texas"
  Padre José Nicolás Ballí (c. 1770–1829), grantee, settler, and namesake of Padre Island
  John Neely Bryan (1810–1877), founder of Dallas
  Moses Austin Bryan (1817–1895), early settler of Texas
  David G. Burnet (1788–1870), interim President of Republic of Texas
  Prince Carl of Solms-Braunfels (1812–1875), established colonies of German immigrants in Texas
  Henri Castro (1786–1865), Jewish empresario
  William Leslie Cazneau (1807–1876), pioneer
  Jesse Chisholm (1806–1868), Indian trader, guide, interpreter, namesake of Chisholm Trail
  Jao De La Porta (fl. 1810s), trader, financed settlement of Galveston Island
  Green DeWitt (1787–1835), empresario, namesake of DeWitt County
  Susanna Dickinson (1814–1883), DeWitt Colonist, witnessed and survived Battle of the Alamo
  Angelina Eberly (1798–1860), stopped the attempted removal from Austin of the Republic of Texas Archives, thereby preserving Austin's status as the capital of Texas
  Johann Friedrich Ernst (born Friedrich Diercks) (1796–1848), first German to bring family to Texas, benefactor to German immigrants
  Warren Angus Ferris (1810–1873), early surveyor of Dallas
  Henry Francis Fisher (1805–1867), German settler, explored and colonized San Saba area
  Samuel Rhoads Fisher (1794–1839), settler in Republic of Texas and later its Secretary of Navy; namesake of Fisher County
  Betty Holekamp (1826–1902), German Texan pioneer, called the Betsy Ross of Texas
  Sam Houston (1793–1863), first and third President of Republic of Texas, later U.S. Senator and Governor of Texas
  Anson Jones (1798–1858), last President of Republic of Texas, called "Architect of Annexation"
  Mirabeau B. Lamar (1798–1859), second President of Republic of Texas, one of strongest proponents of Texas Navy
  Gideon Lincecum (1793–1874), pioneer, historian, physician, philosopher, naturalist
  Jane Herbert Wilkinson Long (1798–1880), considered the "mother of Texas"
  Collin McKinney (1766–1861), drafter of Texas Declaration of Independence; both Collin County and its county seat, McKinney, are named for him
  John Henry Moore (1800–1880), early settler
  Jose Antonio Navarro (1795–1871), Texas statesman, revolutionary and politician
  Robert Neighbors (1815–1859), Indian agent, soldier, legislator
  Cynthia Ann Parker (1826–1870), kidnapped in 1836 and raised by Comanche Indians; mother of Quanah Parker, the last Comanche Chief
  Daniel Parker (1781–1844), settler, church founder
  James W. Parker (1797–1864), early settler
  John Parker (1758–1836), pioneer Texas settler
  John Richard Parker (1834–1915), kidnapped in 1836 by Comanche Indians
  Emily Austin Perry (1795–1851), early settler of Texas
  Elijah Sterling Clack Robertson (1820–1879), early settler, translator, lawyer, postmaster
  Sterling C. Robertson (1785–1842), impresario, colony founder; signed Texas Declaration of Independence
  Thomas Jefferson Rusk (1803–1857), Secretary of War of Republic of Texas, Chief Justice of Supreme Court of Texas, U.S. Senator after state's admission to U.S.
  Edwin Waller (1800–1881), judge and signer of Texas Declaration of Independence
  Frank E. Wheelock (1863–1932), founder and first mayor of Lubbock, 1909–15
  Lorenzo de Zavala (1788–1836), first vice president of Republic of Texas, signer of Texas Declaration of Independence
caption: Stephen F. Austin
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