Augustus Albe Lull, one of the pioneer residence and businessmen of Pontiac, Oakland County, Michigan, is a well-known capitalist of the city, having large investments in real estate in a various business concerns. He is a vigorous man, of mental strength and activity, although 86 years of age, and since 1836 has been a resident of Pontiac. Mr. Lull was born in Hartland, Windsor County, Vermont, and is son of Albe and Mary Levina (Cabot) Lull, being a descendent on his mother's side from Sebastian Cabot. His father, who was born December 7, 1782, and was a general merchant of Hartland, Vermont, came Weston died in what is now Bay City, Michigan, in 1838. His wife died in Vermont.

In the age of 19 years, in 1836, A. A. Lull came the Pontiac, and clerked in the dry goods store a Seth Beach, one of the earliest and best merchants of Pontiac. In the spring of 1841, he established a dry goods store with Albert E. Draper, under the firm name of Lull and Draper, conducting the store where the Palace drug store is now situated. In 1843, with H. N. Howard, he erected a new flowering mail on the side of your product mail, and conducted it along with merchant tile business for some years, the property then passing into the hands of Matthews and Beach. Mr. Lull sold out to dry goods business September 30, 1865, to enter the field of banking. With the Theron A. Flower and Stephen Baldwin, and Willard M. McConnell, he organized Second National Bank of Pontiac, which opened its doors for business in October 1865, with Mr. Flower as president, and our subject as cashier. Mr.. Lull surges cashier during the 20 years of his charter as national bank, and upon its reorganization and In 1885, as the Pontiac National Bank, became its president and served as such it was six years, his nephew Albe Lull being cashier. He resigned the presidency January 1, 1891, and was succeeded by William G. Hinman, now deceased. Mr. Lull was cashier and had the management of the bank during the panic of 1873, and it is greatly to his credit that the bank was one of the few in the state and the only one in the county to keep its doors open and pay its accounts in full. The Pontiac National Bank was succeeded by the Pontiac Savings Bank, which purchased the old building and assumed the business of the old bank. Mr. Lull is now largely interested in real estate and other interest. He is a stockholder and the director of the Pontiac Wheel Company, one of a growing vehicle industries of the city, and his nephew Albe Lull a secretary, treasurer and general manager. He was one of the first treasurers of the Eastern Michigan Asylum and held the office for several years. He was also one of the directors of the City Water Board which established the waterworks at Pontiac, a fine plant in which any city might justly be proud. Mr. Lull has resided in his present location at the corner of Williams And Pike Street since 1846, and in 1861 built his present comfortable home.

Mr. Lull was married October 12, 1841 to Clarissa G. Elliott, a daughter of Charles Elliott, a farmer who located at Pontiac as early as 1838. Charles Elliott came from Litchfield, Connecticut. He and his wife reared a large family, among them being W. G. , a position formerly located at Pontiac, but now a resident of Holly Springs, Mississippi; Richard H., a druggist who died in Pontiac; Clerissa G. ( Mrs. Lull); and a daughter who married Dr. Isaac Paddock of Pontiac, who has a son practicing medicine in New York City. All but one of the daughters are deceased, Mrs. Lull nine May 25, 1890. Our subject is Republican politics, and part of the organization of that party as a Whig. Rigorously, he is a member of the Presbyterian church, of which he is been trustee for over 40 years, and elder for the past 38 years.

AUGUSTUS A. LULL. Orphaned in infancy by the death of his father, and thus left to the sole care of his mother for provision for his needs, his rearing and education, Augustus A. Lull, of Pontiac. began his boyhood under difficulties and some clouds of adversity, and these did not all disappear with his boyhood. On the contrary , they rather increased and intensified when he took up the battle of life for himself, and for a time he stubbornly contested his right of way to advancement in the world. But the difficulties and adversities which beset his pathway did not deter him or dampen his ardor. They seened only to call out the native strength of his spirit, and quicken all the elements of his nature into greater force and activity. His mother accepted the task of rearing him to an age at which he could begin to take care of himself with Spartan courage and performed her duty, as far as she was able, with the fidelity of the most exalted and resolute womanhood, but the task, as she wished to perform it , was beyond her resources, and at an early age the son himself became the helper and caretaker of the household, and made for his parent the provision she felt eager to make for him in the way of a livelihood.

Mr. Lull was born in Sacramento, California, on May 1 , 1862, and is a son of George W. and Ann (Watkins) Lull , the former a native of Hortford , Vermont, and the latter of Michigan. The subject of this brief review was their only child . The father was engaged in merchandising in California, being owner of the largest clothing store in Sacramento, and, as has been indicated, died during the infancy of his The latter grew to the age of thirteen in Sacramento, and at that age moved with his mother to San Francisco, in the same state. There mother and son lived together eighteen years, the mother dying at the end of that period , and thus leaving the son alone in the world. From 1882 he clerked for Wagenheim, Sternheim & Company, of San Francisco for about five years, and in 1888, began working for M. C. Halbley & Company, a hardware firm, of San Francisco, and clerked there for five years.

On May 21 , 1894, he became a resident of Pontiac, this state , where he entered the dry goods store of an uncle as a clerk and salesman. After remaining with his uncle three years he went to Detroit, where he was variously employed during the next three. He then returned to Pontiac, and accepted employment with the Pontiac Wheel Company, with which he remained three years. On November 30, 1898, Mr. Lull was united in marriage with Miss Frances Whitesell, a daughter of John and Orcelia ( Bowlby ) Whitesell , the father a native of New Jersey and the mother of Michigan. They have three children: Georgia, who resides in Pontiac; Charles B., whose home is also in Pontiac, and Mrs. Lull. Mr. and Mrs. Lull have seven children: Evelyn Gertrude, born on August 15, 1900; Frances Wilma, born on September 22, 1901 ; Milton Halsey, born on July 24, 1905; Alva Orcelia, born on September 25 , 1906; Anna Claudia, born on January 7, 1908; John Augustus, born on August 1 , 1909; and Marion Elizabeth, born on November 12, 1910. Mr. Lull is a Republican in his political faith and allegiance, but, although at all times warmly interested in the welfare of his party, he has never been an active partisan, and never sought or desired a public office, either by election or appointment. Fraternally he is a Freemason, a Knight of the Maccabees and a Woodmen of the World . He also belongs to the American Insurance Union. His church connection is with the Presbyterians. As a good citizen he takes an active interest in the welfare of the city and county of his home and does his part to aid in providing for it. The nature of his business, too, besides his local patriotism and devotion to his locality, makes him zealous for public improvements, and he always lends a willing hand to undertakings involving them. There is no interest in his community, moral, mental, social or material, that goes without his earnest and helpful support, and the residents of Pontiac and Oakland county freely accord him a place among their best and most representative citizens and their most enterprising and useful men.