Polk County, Missouri Biographies - G. B. AUSTIN
History Of Hickory, Polk, Cedar, Dade And Barton Counties, 
Missouri 1889, published by Goodspeed, page 622, 623
Polk County Biography Section

    G. B. Austin, a successful liveryman at Bolivar, Mo., was 
born in Dallas County, Mo., September 7, 1861, and is the second
of six children born to Elijah and Louisa (Randles) Austin, the
father a native of North Carolina, and the mother of Dallas 
County, Mo.  The latter's parents came from Tennessee.  When
still but a child, the father came with his parents to Dallas 
County, Mo., and attained growth in that county, there being 
married.  Elijah Austin was an extensive farmer and stock-dealer,
which occupation he carried on all his life.  He was a member of 
the Masonic fraternity; was a Democrat in politics, and during 
the late war he served in the Union army.  Both he and wife were
members of the Baptist Church.  He died January 31, 1889, at the
age of fifty-three, and she died November 11, 1887, at the age 
of forty-eight years.  G. B. Austin was reared on a farm, received
his early education in the common schools of Dallas County, and 
in 1881 came with his parents to Bolivar, where he took a commercial
course in Southwest Baptist College, graduating from that institution
in 1883.  In December of the same year he married Miss Ella Hunt, 
a native of Dallas County, born near Buffalo, Mo., and this union
resulted in the birth of two children: Essie and Otta.  Mrs. Austin
is a member of the Baptist Church.  He, like his father, is a Democrat 
in politics.  In 1885 he became a partner with his father in the 
livery business, which, after the death of his father, he resumed.
He runs a livery, feed and sale stable containing about thirteen
head of horses and nine vehicles, and has all the requisites for 
a first-class stable.  He also runs the "bus" line. 

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