Bio: Francis G. Hulse, Bienville Parish La
Source: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana
The Southern Publishing Company, Chicago & Nashville,  1890
Submitted by: Gaytha Thompson


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FRANCIS G. HULSE


Francis G. Hulse is a gentleman who has spent he greater part of his life
in this and Claiborne parishes, his birth occurring in the latter, in
September, 1859, being the third of five sons born to is parents, the eldest
member of the family being John E., who is an attorney of Homer, and is
married to Miss Ella Dollard; Birdsey, a traveling man, representing the
Farmers & Merchant's Bank of Shreveport, La., comes next, then the subject of
this sketch, and following him is Sidney T., a cotton planter, residing near
Athens, La., and Charles Edgar, who died at the age of seven years. Milton
Hulse, their father, was born in York State, 1812, and the most of his life,
until the opening of the Rebellion, was spent as a teacher, the remaining of
his days being given to farming. .He married to Miss Mary A. Davidson, a
native South Carolina, and both are still living, worthy and honored people.  

The early educational training of Francis G. Hulse was received in the home
circle, after which he entered the public schools, a later period taking an
academic course at Athens, where he improved his opportunities to the utmost,
and became well fitted for the practical life he has led. After he had
attained his majority he began making his own way in the world, as a school
teacher, his wages being spent in attending school, and until he attained his
twenty~fifth year he alternately taught and went to school in Texas. He then
became a disciple of Blackstone, and after some study, was admitted to the
State bar, and for two years was an active practitioner of law.  He then came
to Claiborne Parish, La., and later moved to Arcadia, where he established the
Arcadia Herald, a bright, unique and creditable paper, well calculated to
benefit and please his subscribers. The editorial policy of the paper could
not be in better hands, and the entire tone of the paper is moral and pure. 
The first copy of the Herald was issued with a circulation of only 100, this
being December 11, 1889, but in less than one year it has increased to 600,
which is commendable to the enterprise and push of Mr. Hulse.  He has at all
times furthered the interests of the Democratic party to the best of his
ability, and his first presidential vote was cast for Gen. Winfield S.
Hancock. He has always bad the interests of the section in which he lives at
heart, and is a devout believer in Christianity and an earnest member of the
Presbyterian Church.  

In March, 1857, be was married to Miss Mary Riley, a native of Texas, who
received a high-school education, but after a very short and happy married
life, Mrs. Hulse was called to her long home, and is now sleeping her last
sleep in the cemetery at Canton, Tex.  Mr. Hulse is sole manager and
proprietor of the Arcadia Herald, and has already made it creditable to
Bienville Parish and to himself.   Here, where his business interests are
centered, he expects to make his future abiding place, where he is held in
high esteem by his many friends and patrons.