Hulette F. Aby

Hulette Fuqua "Red" Aby (January 15, 1879 – April 8, 1935) was an American attorney in Tulsa, Oklahoma, of the firm Aby & Tucker.[1][2]

Hulette F. Aby
Born(1879-01-15)January 15, 1879
Crystal Springs, Mississippi, United States
DiedApril 8, 1935(1935-04-08) (aged 56)
Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States
Alma materMillsaps College
OccupationLawyer
Years active1902–1935
SpouseCora Mae Hansel
ChildrenH. F. Aby Jr.
William Willing Aby
College football career
LSU Tigers
PositionTackle
Career history
CollegeLSU (1898–1899)

Birth and family

Hulette Fuqua was born to Samuel Hulette Aby Jr. and Mary J. Willing on January 15, 1879 in Crystal Springs, Mississippi. His father had served in the American Civil War, and afterwards studied journalism at the University of Mississippi and University of Virginia. In 1881, he began editing and publishing the Crystal Springs Monitor newspaper.

His uncle Jonas Catchings Aby was a columnist for the New Orleans States newspaper.[3] Another uncle, Thomas Young Aby, was a surgeon captured at Gettysburg, who escaped from Fort McHenry.

His grandfather Samuel H. Aby Sr. was a cotton merchant with P. S. Catchings, who signed the Ordinance of Secession.[4] His great-grandfather Jonas Aby served in the War of 1812, whose wife Barbara Hulett lived at Thorndale Farm. Hulette was named for his great-great-grandfather, Revolutionary War drummer Charles Hulett.[5]

College

He attended the University of Mississippi in 1896 and 1897, then Louisiana State University in 1898 and 1899, where he was a member of the football team, and captain of the 1899 team which lost to the "Iron Men" of Sewanee. He received his LL. B. in 1901 from Millsaps College.[6][3]

Tulsa

He moved to Tulsa in 1902. In 1905 he formed Aby & Tucker with William Frank Tucker. In 1906 he married Cora Mae Hansel.[7]

Aby was president of the TCBA in 1926.[8]

References
  1. Douglas, Clarence B. (March 19, 2019). "The History of Tulsa, Oklahoma". Clarke – via Google Books.
  2. https://www.supremecourt.gov/pdfs/journals/scannedjournals/1918_journal.pdf
  3. "Honeymoon Visit to His Old Home". Clarion-Ledger. April 6, 1928. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com. open access
  4. Catchings, Thomas Clendinen; Torrey, Mary Clendinen Catchings; Churchill, Charles Robert (1921). The Catchings and Holliday Families: And Various Related Families, in Virginia, Georgia, Mississippi and Other Southern States. A. B. Caldwell Publishing Company. p. 29.
  5. see Charles Hulett, Continental Army Drummer: A Revolutionary Life Reexamined by Anne Midgley
  6. "The American Bar". J.C. Fifield Company. 1921 – via Google Books.
  7. "A Magnolia Honeymoon". The Morning Tulsa Daily World. July 18, 1906. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com. open access
  8. Schaefer, Ralph (October 9, 2013). "TCBA founders set high standards". Tulsa World.
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