Early Life and Education
B. F. Austin was born in Brighton, Ontario, the son of another Benjamin Fish Austin and Mary Anne F. McGuire. He was described as a Canadian of mixed English and Irish ethnicity. Benjamin was raised a Methodist, the fourth generation of his family to belong to that church. He attended the local grammar school and worked as a teacher from the age of 16 to 20. At the age of 20 B. F. Austin began preaching locally and became more involved with the church, eventually attending Albert College in near-by Belleville, Ontario where he obtained B.A in theology and received a first class honours in Oriental Literature and Languages in 1877. He continued on at the college and was awarded a B.D degree in 1881. During his time at Albert College, B. F. Austin was the president of the school's temperance union.
Albert College was joined with Victoria College in 1884 forming Victoria University, from which B. F. Austin received a D.D. degree in 1896. He was also as of that year a senator of Victoria University. That same year Victoria University became federated within the University of Toronto, so all of B. F. Austin's Alma Maters are now existent as federated parts of the modern-day University of Toronto.
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