Walter W. Austin (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Walter Wolcott Austin (September 22, 1880 - July 12, 1951) was an American Republican politician from California.Austin was born 1880 in Kendall, Wisconsin, and moved to Chicago, Illinois with his family, where he was a newsboy at age 7, and to Aberdeen, South Dakota. In 1912, he moved to San Diego, California.In San Diego Austin started out as employee of the H. D. Field Safe Co., which he later purchased half-interest then full interest and renamed it Austin Safe and Desk Company. Austin sold the business, and the company later specialised in office furniture then interior design. Austin entered the real estate and insurance business around 1931, and vice president of Fraser Mortgage Co.