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20 BIOGRAP H TC A,L
element of vital strength-laziness is the certain pre- ble sons, Colonel Lynchl Hamilton, now resides in
cursor of weakness and positive evil." Brazoria county. The lad's engagemnent at once
Observe what industry accomplishes. All the great notified him to prepare for examination before leavworks
of sciencee and art are produced only through ing for the National TMilitary Academy, on the itLtdpatient,
toil day after day, persevering. Nothing son, and after consultation witl his mother, the
succeeds without it. Agriculture requires prepara- opportunity to secure a thorough, practical edlication;
then seed time followed by careful :watching tion, and a knowledge of military aftfairs so eagerly
and experienced husbandry, before the glorious in- | sought after by young men, was albandoned, solely
gathering of the harvest. Nature is full of exhibi- because the mother land brothers and sisters were
tions of industry, and mankind is by no means de- dependent u1po him . Noble boy l he relinquished
ficient in illustrations of what is gained through this an education, such as \West Point, at that day only
grand principle of action. In our public men we find afforded, to stand by andl help his mother and othter
industry a prominent characteristic of success. memlbers of the family. Ite was in the hardware
Misfortunes may come and accumuilated wealtlh may I business, with his har master, thlree years, when
be lost t rough various causes, but it rarely happens an offer fronm Messrs. !I. AW. obstacles may be placed in unex- to go to New Orleans, and engage in the d(trug busipected
quarters, but all such hindrances and draw- ness, on a capital he had saved and accuimullated,
backs are overcome by the steady, persevering man through the estate reaching nearly $2,0()(}. Theyx
or woman, girl or boy. In the life of Francis R. ordered their goo_ds before leaving lHailmhrg, andl
Lubbock, we find an industry rarely witnessed. IIe upon reaching the Crescent (City, set about on their
was born in Beaufort, Southt Carolina, October 16, own mercantile career, under the firmi name of
1815. IHis father was Henry Wr. Lubbock, a native Ketchnu young Lubbock then beling
of Georgia, who died in his thirty-seventh year, and nineteen years of age.
his mother Susan Ann Saltus, daughter of Captain The following year, February 5, IS35, ho Inarried
Francis Saltus, of Port Royal'S. C., who died in July, his present wife, Miss Adele Baron, then but sixteen
1835, in her forty-second year. Soon after the birth years of age. Business prospered, and the outlook
of their son Frank, they moved to Charleston, and was all that could be desired up to the terrible finlnwhen
old enough, lie was sent to school. Subse- cial revolution of 1830(-37. Credits were largely exquently,
lie was placed in Beaufort College, and then tended; the sails were spread too wide, and when the
in the South Carolina Society School, into which day of national contraction arrived, the stringencyonly children of members were admitted. It was
during this period that his father died, suddenly,
of a malignant disease, known in that section as
the "country fever'".
The subject of our sketch was then in his fourteenth
year. He, with his mother and six other
children, immediately thereafter returned to Clarleston,
where they had a comfortable home, and a very
small estate. Frank was the oldest boy-the family
comprising a sister older than himself one, younger,
and four younger brothers. To keep the family together,
and provide, such necessaries as were absolutely
requisite, the enterprising Frank sought
enmployment and obtained a situation in the hardware
establishment of James H. Merritt, one of
those task-masters that makes a sensitive boy or
man almost prefer a quiet death to an alluring life.
It was his faller's intention to place his eldest son
in West Point, and in this he was aided by General
James Hamilton, who subsequently rendered such
valuable services to Texas, and one of whose estimaof
the times compelled those youthful muerlmhants to
succumb. The firn surrendered every (dollar to their
creditors, and Mr. Lubbock adldedl co(isiderable of
his wife's devise, which was sacredly her own uniler
the laws of Louisiana.
Within a fortnight, Frank lubbotlk x?was tihe prIincipal
book-keeper in the large house of A Whittemore,
Blair
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