Elmore County AlArchives Photo person.....Horatio B. Tulane 1893
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   HORATIO B. TULANE, retired merchant of Wetumpka, was born at Bay St. Louis,
Miss., in 1835, the son of Louis S. and Mary Ann (Giles) Tulane, the father
having been born in Princeton, N. J., in 1795, and the mother in Pennsylvania,
in 1820. The father, at the age of seventeen years, went with his brother, Paul
Tulane, to New Orleans in the shoe and clothing business. In 1837 he went to
Montgomery, Ala., and then to Shelby county, where he was a planter for some
years. He was afterward in business in Mobile, and in 1848 settled at Wetumpka,
and engaged in mercantile pursuits for some years, and died there in 1873 He was
a very successful business man and left a large estate. His brother Paul was the
founder of the celebrated Tulane university, at New Orleans, and was one of the
wealthiest citizens of that city. The father of these gentlemen was Louis
Tulane, an educated and refined Frenchman, who was largely engaged in planting
at San Domingo, but at the time of the insurrection he removed to New Jersey,
where he died. The maternal grandfather, Giles, went west at an early day and
nothing is known of him. Mr. Tulane is the third born among two sons and five
daughters: Artemese, widow of Jared Bates, deceased, of Birmingham; Sophia,
deceased wife of Sidney McWhirton; Olivia, deceased wife of M. Burke; Isaline,
deceased wife of A. J. Due; Louisa, widow of Rufus Kidd, deceased, and William,
who died in infancy. Horatio B. Tulane went to school in various places in
Alabama, but his education may be said to have been acquired in the schools of
Wetumpka and Mobile. At the age of fifteen he clerked in his father's store, and
served six years in a similar position in the store of his uncle, Paul Tulane,
in New Orleans. In 1858 he settled permanently in Wetumpka and engaged in the
business of a merchant, which he has followed since with marked success. Early
in 1861 he went to the field as a member of the Wetumpka Light Guards and served
six months, and was assigned to the quartermaster's department as clerk, and in
one of the raids through Alabama he had a narrow escape from death. Mr. Tulane
has never married, but his time and talent have been fixed upon the intelligent
conduct of his business, which has yielded him a most competent fortune.



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from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 
Published by
Brant & Fuller (1893)
Madison, WI

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