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 Thomas Saltus Lubbock - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He was born in Charleston, South Carolina, the brother of Governor of Texas Francis R. Lubbock., but moved to Louisiana in 1835 and worked as a cotton factor in New Orleans.
Lubbock and his men were among the Texans who followed Alexander Somervell back to Texas on December 19, 1842, after declining to join William S. Fisher on the Mier Expedition.
Lubbock was a strong secessionist, characterized as a "very worthy and zealous" Knight of the Golden Circle.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thomas_Saltus_Lubbock   (568 words)

  
 Colonel Francis R. Lubbock
Francis R. Lubbock, governor of Texas, was born on October 16, 1815, in Beaufort, South Carolina, the oldest son of Dr. Henry Thomas Willis and Susan Ann (Saltus) Lubbock and brother of Thomas S. Lubbock.
Lubbock was later transferred to the staff of Brig.
Lubbock exempted frontier counties from the Confederate draft and enlisted their residents for local defense against Indian attack.
www.angelfire.com /tx/RandysTexas/page111.html   (642 words)

  
 :: The Lubbock Chamber of Commerce ::
He was a former Texas Ranger, Confederate officer, and brother of Francis R. Lubbock, the Civil War governor of the State.
Lubbock's range of diversity is from ranching to electronic manufacturing, from farming to earth equipment manufacturing, from universities and libraries opening the wonders of space, to museums housing the relics of the past.
Lubbock, as were almost all towns in West Texas, was named after a signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence and a Texas Hero, Tom S. Lubbock.
www.lubbockchamber.com /history.shtml   (1447 words)

  
 Lubbock Homes For Sale
The County of Lubbock was founded in 1876 and named after Thomas S. Lubbock, a former Texas Ranger and the brother of Francis R. Lubbock, the governor of Texas during the Civil War.
With an elevation of 3,256 feet from sea level, Lubbock is located in northwest Texas and considered to be at the center of the South Plains, between the Permian Basin to the south and the Texas Panhandle to the north.
Lubbock is the home of the Buddy Holly Center designed to motivate public interest in contemporary visual arts, the music, and the music history of Texas and West Texas.
www.lubbock-homesforsale.com /cityprofile.htm   (749 words)

  
 OA Online Sports
LUBBOCK — Carlos Francis learned early Sunday where he would begin his professional football career as the Oakland Raiders selected the Texas Tech wide receiver early in the fourth round of the 2004 NFL Draft.
Francis and the Tech receiving corps became the first in NCAA history to have five players record 70 or more receptions in a season, thanks mostly to head coack Mike Leach’s offensive scheme.
Francis had a stellar career at Texas Tech and became one of the most prolific receivers in school history.
www.oaoa.com /sports/sp042604c.htm   (287 words)

  
 Francis R. Lubbock (1815-1905)
Francis Lubbock was born in South Carolina on October 15, 1815.
Lubbock was kept in solitary confinement until released in late 1865.
Lubbock was elected Governor of Texas during the early years of the Confederacy.
www.lsjunction.com /people/lubbock.htm   (270 words)

  
 user_form.asp?step=1&pers_id=115
LUBBOCK, ADELE F. BARON (1819~1882) Adele F. Baron Lubbock was born October 19, 1818, in New Orleans, Louisiana, to N. Baron, Jr., a former Parisian and prominent sugar and cotton dealer, and Laura Bringer Baron, the daughter of one of Louisiana‘s earliest cotton planters.
Lubbock was appointed Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives by President Houston, and soon turned to a career in politics.
Lubbock continued to serve as State Treasurer and on the Board of Pardons until he was eighty.
www.cemetery.state.tx.us /pub/user_form.asp?step=1&pers_id=115   (502 words)

  
 02-2002-SW
Following his parents death from Yellow Fever, Theodore Uglow was adopted by Francis Richard Lubbock, an early Houston merchant, one of the early recipients of the degrees in Holland Lodge No. 1 and Governor of Texas from 1861 to 1863.
Lubbock stated himself that he was First a cowboy, then a soldier in Terry's Texas Rangers, a Confederate States Army, thereafter a farmer, then a merchant in Houston, Texas, for many years.
Theodore Uglow Lubbock was born in the city of Houston on December 24, 1841, during the days of the Republic of Texas.
www.gray329.org /masters/Pages/RS_1873-Lubbock.html   (500 words)

  
 Lubbock - The Beginning
Lubbock, a former Texas Ranger, Confederate officer, and brother of Francis R. Lubbock, the civil war governor of the state of Texas.
The development of Lubbock and Lubbock county was not unlike that of the rest of the Llano Estacado.
Lubbock was selected as the county seat, G. Shannon was elected as the first county judge, J. Caldwell, F.
interoz.com /lubbock/history2.htm   (2909 words)

  
 San Jacinto Museum of History—Lubbock Family Papers
Texas governor and treasurer Francis Richard Lubbock was born on October 16, 1815, in Beaufort, South Carolina, to Dr. Henry Thomas Willis and Susan Ann (Saltus) Lubbock.
Lubbock was an ardent supporter of Jefferson Davis and the Confederacy, and worked hard to enhance Texas’ military capabilities, including supporting Confederate constriptions in the state for fighting in the East.
Lubbock accepted the position, and after Lee’s surrender, he fled with Davis and his cabinet, headed toward Texas, but Federal troops captured them in Georgia.
www.sanjacinto-museum.org /Herzstein_Library/Manuscripts/Finding_Aids/Lubbock   (590 words)

  
 The Beginnings
Lubbock departed for Montgomery early in April to seek such authority from Jefferson Davis and the Confederate War Department.
Terry and Lubbock were given the authorization they sought to raise a regiment for the Confederate army in Virginia.
Thomas S. Lubbock, born in North Carolina, in 1817, and reared in that state, had arrived in Texas with the New Orleans Greys in 1836.
www.keathleywebs.com /terrysrangers/terry1.htm   (2784 words)

  
 Lubbock Dowtown Apartments for Rent Online
Lubbock, the county seat of Lubbock County, is located at the approximate center of the county (at 33°35' N, 101°51' W) at an elevation of 3,256 feet above sea level.
Lubbock was the wholesale trade center for fifty-one counties in West Texas and eastern New Mexico and the retail center for much of the same area.
Lubbock was founded as a part of the movement westward onto the High Plains of Texas by ranchers and farmers.
www.aptselector.com /texas/lubbock/downtown   (1841 words)

  
 Francis Richard Lubbock (October 16, 1815-June 22, 1905)
Francis Richard Lubbock was born to Dr. Henry Thomas Willis Lubbock (July 23, 1792-February 15, 1830) and Susan Ann Saltus (May 16, 1793-July 4, 1836) in Beaufort District, South Carolina on October 16, 1815.
Lubbock was then called to Virginia and appointed Colonel and Aide de Camp to President Jefferson Davis (June 3, 1808-December 6, 1889) on June 14, 1864.
Lubbock is buried in the Republic Hill section of Texas State Cemetery in Austin.
www.csawardept.com /history/Cabinet/Lubbock   (511 words)

  
 LubbockOnline.com - Life in Lubbock
The county was named for Texas Ranger Thomas S. Lubbock - brother of Texas Civil War Gov. Francis R. Lubbock.
Lubbock is the largest cultural and music center between the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex and Albuquerque, N.M. The number of cultural offerings, as well as pop entertainment offerings, in Lubbock has shown no sign of diminishing.
Lubbock has earned the moniker of the Hub City for many reasons, not least of which for its position as an educational hub for West Texas.
lubbockonline.com /lifeinlubbock   (670 words)

  
 The WILLIS family and Richard LUBBOCK the emigrant
The Forsyth Lodge #14 was chartered from 1794, and Brother Lubbock served as Treasurer in 1797 and as Junior Warden in 1799.
Mariam LUBBOCK is said to have been born in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1727, and to have married Thomas KIRK at St Phillip’s Episcopalian Church there on February 6, 1748, and perhaps word had filtered back to Norfolk of the good life there).
Richard LUBBOCK was said to be 60 at the time of his death, so if that was correct he was born in 1766, while Richard Lubbock WILLIS would have been 56.
sciway3.net /clark/beaufort/willisconnection.htm   (6727 words)

  
 Auction 11, Lots 176-200
The document orders Lubbock to cause the named prisoners who escaped from the Guard House at Houston to be arrested if found in his jurisdiction, and to be forwarded to the Office of Provost Marshal General, District of Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona, in Houston.
Affixed to front pastedown is Lubbock's original autograph letter, signed, dated at Austin on November 26, 1897 (1 p., 4to, on printed letterhead for the Office of Texas Veterans Association, to Ingham Roberts in Houston, thanking him for subscribing to the book).
Lubbock gives us one of the best accounts of business life in early Texas....
www.sloanrarebooks.com /Auctions/A11/176-200Web.htm   (3495 words)

  
 Texas Governor Francis Richard Lubbock: An Inventory of Records at the Texas State Archives, 1861-1904, undated (bulk 1861-1863)
Francis Richard Lubbock was governor of Texas from November 7, 1861 to November 5, 1863.
Six decades in Texas; or, Memoirs of Francis Richard Lubbock, governor of Texas in war time, 1861-63.
Lubbock was elected lieutenant governor in 1857, and governor in 1861.
www.lib.utexas.edu /taro/tslac/40011/tsl-40011.html   (3542 words)

  
 Green, J. of the Texian Expedition Against Mier (tjg_286.htm)
Lubbock, Francis R. Six Decades in Texas; or, Memoirs of Francis Richard Lubbock, Governor of Texas in War-Time, 1861-63.
www.smu.edu /SWcenter/tjgreen/tjg_286.htm   (210 words)

  
 TravelBank.com systems ® : Regional Report Profiles - Lubbock, Texas
It was named after Thomas S. Lubbock, a former Texas Ranger and the brother of Francis R. Lubbock, the governor of Texas during the Civil War.
Depot District The Depot District is the heartbeat of nightlife in downtown Lubbock.
Lubbock, Texas is the hub of the South Plains and the center of the most concentrated cotton production in the world.
www.coloradio.com /rprolubk.htm   (2760 words)

  
 John A. Wharton: The Forgotten General - Online Archive of Terry's TX Rangers
The General appointed Lubbock as his assistant adjutant-general but perhaps the politician's greatest service was in sharing his camp supplies with the ill equipped soldier.
Lubbock went to the Confederate capital at Montgomery, Alabama to secure the needed commission only to be rebuffed.
On the twenty-third a member of the party wrote that Lubbock, Terry, and Wharton along with Louis T. Wigfall, James Longstreet and Thomas N. Waul had called upon President Jefferson Davis seeking permission to organize a company of Texas Cavalry to be mounted by the Confederate government.
www.terrystexasrangers.org /biography/submitted/wharton.html   (13963 words)

  
 Green, J. of the Texian Expedition Against Mier (tjg_259.htm)
Francis R. Lubbock, Six Decades in Texas, 86.
In keeping with the egalitarian spirit of the age, Americans were inclined to celebrate the innate martial skills of the backwoods volunteer while disparaging those of the professionally trained regular.
Although long since replaced by store-bought apparel, buckskin, according to western lore and literature, was supposed to be the clothing of choice for the bona fide frontiersman.
www.smu.edu /SWcenter/tjgreen/tjg_259.htm   (637 words)

  
 Adele Baron Lubbock
Francis R. Lubbock wrote in his book, Lubbock's Memoirs, that "We made the Governor's Mansion a cheerful, bright home and we loved to have our friends enjoy it with us-our house was always open to visitors."
Adele Baron of New Orleans married Francis R. Lubbock in 1835.
1861- Adele Baron Lubbock and Francis R. Lubbock made the Governor's Mansion the political and social center of Texas.
www.twu.edu /firstladies/ab_lubbock.htm   (236 words)

  
 OA Online Obituaries
LUBBOCK — Reba Francis Grimes, 91, went home to be with the Lord March 1, 2002, in Lubbock.
Reba is survived by her daughter and son-in-law, Donna and I.L. “Buck” Whitehead of Lubbock; granddaughter and husband, Dana and Ronny Martin of Youngsville, La.; granddaughter and husband, Carolyn and Jay Fuglaar of Lubbock; great-grandsons, Greg and Michael Martin of Youngsville, La., and Garrett Fuglaar of Lubbock; and great-granddaughters, Danielle and Lexi Fuglaar of Lubbock.
Reba was preceded in death by her husband, A.D. Grimes, and brothers, Ray, Roy and Ted Dick.
www.oaoa.com /obit/obits030302.htm   (810 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Francis Lubbock
Francis Richard Lubbock ( October 16, 1815 - June 22, 1905) was a governor of Texas during the American Civil War.
Pendleton Murrah } Lubbock, Francis Lubbock, Francis Lubbock, Francis
Born in Beaufort, South Carolina, Lubbock was a businessman in South Carolina before moving to Texas in 1836.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Francis-Lubbock   (810 words)

  
 Francis R. Lubbock (1815-1905)
Francis Lubbock was born in South Carolina on October 15, 1815.
Lubbock was kept in solitary confinement until released in late 1865.
Lubbock served and developed a close relationship with Davis throughout the balance of the war.
www.lsjunction.com /people/lubbock.htm   (810 words)

  
 Lubbock County TXGenWeb
He was also a Texas Ranger, Confederate officer, and the brother of Francis R. Lubbock, the Civil War governor of the State of Texas.
Lubbock County was named in 1876 and officially formed on March 10, 1891, with the county seat being Lubbock.
To nominate Lubbock County for COUNTY of the
www.rootsweb.com /~txlubboc   (172 words)

  
 1815 - Simple English Wikipedia
October 16 - Francis Lubbock, Governor of Texas (d.
April 24 - Anthony Trollope, British author (d.
simple.wikipedia.org /wiki/1815   (203 words)

  
 Edward Clark
He ran for election to a full term as governor in the autumn of 1861 but was defeated in an extremely close race by Francis R. Lubbock.
Lubbock, who had the support of regular Democratic party leaders, received 21,854 votes, Clark, 21,730, and Thomas Jefferson Chambers, 13,733.
Even so, he exercised more authority and power than any previous Texas chief executive in recruiting, enrolling, and training troops, in purchasing weapons and supplies, and in communication with Confederate officials and governors of Mexican states.
www.angelfire.com /tx/RandysTexas/page69.html   (590 words)

  
 Southern Music Company Composers - W. Francis McBeth
Francis McBeth, born March 1933, in Lubbock, Texas, is former Professor of Music and Resident Composer at Ouachita University, Arkadelphia, Arkansas.
In 1962, Southern Music Company's association with the music of Francis McBeth began with the publication of his SECOND SUITE FOR BAND.
In the thirty-five years since that time, Dr. McBeth has established himself as one of the preeminent composers in the field of music for wind band, producing a body of work which is internationally recognized as among the finest of its kind.
www.southernmusic.com /mcbeth.htm   (128 words)

  
 Paul Scott's 1977 Thesis - Online Archive of Terry's Texas Rangers
The first was led by Terry and had the honor of escorting the newly-elected governor of Texas, Francis R. Lubbock, on the first part of has journey to Richmond.
In 1841, Lubbock was a member of the Texan-Santa Fe expedition as a lieutenant and was captured with it and sent to Mexico City as a prisoner.
Lubbock was a staunch supporter of the South and its institutions.
www.terrystexasrangers.org /histories/scott_thesis.html   (13741 words)

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