B W Aston

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. B W Aston (April 27, 1936-March 25, 2010) was an American historian whose career embraced local and regional history as well as Latin American studies. From 1967-2001, he was a faculty member at Baptist-affiliated Hardin-Simmons University in Abilene, Texas. Aston (the B W stood for nothing) was born in Fort Worth to Ernest Roy Aston and Mural Aston (1905-1979). He graduated from Technical High School in Fort Worth and enrolled briefly at Arlington Junior College in Arlington, Texas, now part of Tarrant County College. He served in the United States Air Force from 1955-1958.