Austin seton thompson biography of rory
Up until two years ago I was a dedicated resident of Central Austin, always residing in either West Campus or the North Campus/Heritage..
AUSTIN, JAMES, printer and businessman; b. 6 March 1813 in Tandragee (Northern Ireland), son of John Marks Austin; m. 28 Nov.
1844 Susan Bright in Toronto, and they had three sons and two daughters; d. there 27 Feb. 1897.
James Austin’s father, having heard favourable reports of Upper Canada, decided to emigrate with his wife and five children.
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Reaching York (Toronto) in October 1829, they spent two months there while seeking a farm. Before the Austins left to settle in Trafalgar Township, 16-year-old James was apprenticed to William Lyon Mackenzie* to learn the printing trade.
Austin spent four and a half years in Mackenzie’s shop and later struck out on his own as a printer. After the rebellion of 1837–38 he considered it prudent, because of his association with Mackenzie, to leave the province, so he retreated to the United States for some years.
By 1843 Austin judged it safe to return.
He possessed sufficient capital to set up as a wholes