El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-05-06
EX-GOVERNOR LUBBOCK.
The Oldest Living Texas Made Free
Mason.

Mason.
The oldest living Texas-made Free
Mason is Frank r. Lubbock, who was
No. SO (now Holland Lodge No. y in
the city of Houston in December, 1887
He was initiated December 2, passed
December 6 and raised December %.
He is still, says the Texas Free Mason,
q member of Holland Lodge No. and
the only Free Mason now living
who was a member of a Texas
lodge the organization of the grand
lodge of Texas, for which purpose a
convention of the three lodges then
chartered by the grand lodge of Louis
Tex. on December 20, 1887, and had
for it's president General Sam Hous-
ton, and for it's secretary DR.. Arson
Jones, worshipful master of Holland
lodge No. SO. The convection elected
DIR. Arson Jones first grand master of
Masons in Texas, and G. II. Wirchell
first grand secretary. Brother Francis
r. Lubbock was then fellow craft
Mason.
The next meeting of the grand lodge
was April 16, 1888, at which time
Brother Lubbock was q master Mason,
and his name appears in the minutes
of Holland lodge as an active mem Der
among that noble band of Jealous Ma
sons whose earnest efforts resulted in
the establishment of Masonry early in
the history of our great state.
Brother Lubbock was born in Beau
fort, S. c., October Is, 1915. Moved
from South Carolina to New Orleans
in 1884, and came into the republic Of
Texas at Velasco, at the mouth of the
Brazos river, October.
He has held many positions of public
trust. He was assistant clerk at the
extra session of the first Texas
congress at Houston. was chief clerk
of the house of representatives at the
regular session, and while acting as
such was appointed comptroller by
President Houston during his second
term. He resigned the comptroller
Office on account of being elected
district clerk of Harris county,
which Office be held for sixteen years,
when he resigned and was elected
lieutenant governor on the democratic
ticket in 1857. He was secretary
of the first democratic convention
held in Texas. was a delegate to the
Charleston convention in 1860, was
temporary chairman of the democratic
convention at Richmond. He was elect
ee governor of Texas in 1861; was city
tax collector of Galveston three terms.
He was elected state treasurer n 1878
and served six terms, declined to be-
come candidate for reelection, and
was president of the board of pardons
during Governor Hogg's two term.
He is now engaged in preparing his
memoirs of Six Decades. -
AT the close of his term as governor
he entered the confede ate states err
my rs assistant aojutant general with
rank of lieutenant colonel. Wnile in
the field in Louisiana in 1864, he was
appointed on President Davis staff
with the rank of colonel of caval-
ry.
He was captured with President
Davis in May, 1865, and placed in soli-
tary confinement in prison in Fort
Delaware.
Through all this active and busy life
Brother Lubbock never forgot the
duty of a Free Mason, and continued to
practice its teachings and adhere to
its precepts. But it was during his
confinement in prison at Fort Delaware
that Masonry first became to him
personal benefit, and the circumstance
is here related in the good old broth
er's own language:
For considerable time 1 received
for rations pork and beans and beef
and beans alternately, with bareback
and soft bread alternately-no tea or
coffee. The sutler at the fort inform
ed General Scharf, the commander,
that l was Mason. The general then
paid me his first visit, and after 1 sat-
isfied him that 1 was Mason he said:
l have given you the ra-
lions provided to be issued. II you
have money you will be
allowed to buy such things as you may
WISH l then drew OnsBr own &
60. OF New York for funds, and from
hat time was treated with more defer
ence and provided myself with the arti-
lies that added to my comfort. For
his and the interest the Masons took
q my release 1 am greatly indebted to
he order"
Brother Lubbock is member of |
W Washington chapter No. 2, r. A. M,
It Houston, and q member of Colorado |
No. 4, K. T., at Austin.
He has now passed his eighty third |
'ear and has been over sixty one years
! Mason. His sterling integrity and |
lis genial and happy disposition have
lrawn around him hosts of friends
throughout his long and useful life.
All of the friends of his early life, and
nd many who were with him in middle
ge, have passed to another life, but
lis friends and brothers of the present
' ho are num- ered by thousands, are
ways glad when they are permitted
o meet and feel the hearty grasp of
Srother Lubbock's hand and hear his
ervent "God bless YOU
FOR SALE