Source: Portrait and Biographical Album of Oakland County, Michigan - 1891

Lull, Augustus Albe

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.