Guide to the Francis Wayland Lull Papers MSS.2739
Lull, Francis Wayland
- Publication:
W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama
Mary Harmon Bryant Hall
July 2010
500 Hackberry Lane
Box 870266
Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 35487-0266
205.348.0500
archives@ua.edu
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English
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Francis Wayland Lull Papers
- Unit ID:
MSS.2739
- Repository:
W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama
- Quantity:
0.1 Linear feet
- Dates:
1914-1920
- Abstract:
Biographical sketches and obituary of this Wetumpka, Alabama native.
Scope and Contents note
This collection contains biographical sketches and obituaries of Francis "Frank" Wayland Lull of Wetumpka, Elmore County, Alabama.
- Acquisition Information:
Provenance
unknown
Biographical/Historical note
Francis "Frank" Wayland Lull was born in Wetumpka, Elmore County, Alabama on 19 October 1872 to Cabot and Sallie Lull. He grew up in Wetumpka and attended Wetumpka Academy. In 1896 he graduated from the law department of the University of Alabama with his LL.B. (Bachelor of Laws) degree and immediate began his practice in his home town.
He married Ida Belle Phillips of Tuskegee, Macon County, Alabama, in August 1901 and the couple had three children - two daughters and one son.
Lull served as the Mayor of Wetumpka for a time and as a First Lieutenant in the Wetumpka County National Guard. He was a delegate to the National Democractic Convention at Baltimore, Maryland in 1912, and was a member of the State Democratic executive committee at the time of his death on 13 January 1918.
- Preferred Citation:
Preferred Citation note
Francis Wayland Lull Papers, W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama.
Papers Box 3149 Folder 2739.1