Henry Austin Carringer was always known by his middle name, Austin.  This may have been a Carringer family tradition, or perhaps from the traditional German naming pattern. He was born in Mercer County, Pennsylvania. His parents moved the family in 1858 to Columbus City, Louisa County, Iowa and then moved in 1873 to Caribou, Boulder County, Colorado. He met Della Smith in Boulder in 1884; the Carringer and Smith families had tracts of land in Wano, Cheyenne County, Kansas. Show more...