Jonathan Loring Austin (January 2, 1748 – May 10, 1826) was a Massachusetts revolutionary, diplomat and politician who served as the second Secretary of the Commonwealth and the tenth Treasurer and Receiver-General of Massachusetts. Austin was the father of Massachusetts Attorney General James Treacothie Austin.[1]
The father of Jonathan Loring Austin and of " Honestus "was the Hon. Benjamin Austin, son of Ebenezer Austin of Charlestown.[2]
Jonathan Loring Austin and Hannah Ivers were married on April 4, 1782, in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts.[3]
He was subsequently Secretary of the Commonwealth, Treasurer and Receiver-General, State Senator from Suffolk, and Member of the House from Middlesex while residing at Cambridge during the time his son was at Harvard. Austin Street in Cambridge was named for him and his brother Benjamin.[2]
It may be added that he occupied a house on Austin Street during his residence in Cambridge.
At the start of the Revolutionary War, Austin became a Major in Langdon's Regiment, and later an aid to General John Sullivan. In January 1780 Austin was captured by the British while on a mission to Europe to secure a loan for Massachusetts. Austin was later released. He failed to secure the loan and he returned in the autumn of 1781.
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