Austin, Lucille Carroll

Lucille Carroll Austin was an enterprising young woman whose professional ambitions led her to great success in the advertising and real estate businesses. Her development and participation in her own and others' business ventures occasioned her to collect documents that relate facets of the business community and economy in Austin, Texas, from 1972 to 1987.

She was born in Texas yet she and her siblings were raised in the North and Midwest regions of the country. The Carroll family had resided in Texas for several generations; her great-great-grandfather, Thomas B. Carroll, lived in Ellis County, Texas, until his death in 1891, and her grandmother was raised in Austin. Lucille's father, Thomas G. Carroll, met Lucille's mother in college at the University of Texas at Austin.

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