Fresno County Biographies

Herbert Z. Austin

Submitted by Sally Kaleta, January, 2007

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	Herbert Z. Austin, the popular young attorney who forms the 
subject of this sketch, is a native of New York State, born in St. Lawrence 
County, January 15, 1864. He was educated at home, and, selecting the law for 
his profession, entered the Law School at Albany, New York, - the law department 
of Union College of Schenectady, - perhaps better known as the Albany Law 
School. This institution is celebrated throughout the country as one of the best 
preparatory law schools in the land. During the period he was in attendance 
there he also studied in the law office of Louis Hasbrouck, Esq., of Ofdensburg. 
After his graduation, in 1888, he came West, and settled in Fresno, entering the 
office of Judge W. D. Grady, with whom he is now associated in practice, under 
the firm name of Grady & Austin. Mr. Austin was the Republican candidate for 
District Attorney of Fresno County in 1890, but was defeated along with the rest 
of the ticket. He is unmarried.
 
Source: "The Memorial and Biographical History of the Counties of Fresno, Tulare 
and Kern, California," Lewis Publ. Co., 1892, p. 324.