1925 Biography - Frank P. Stubbs

Col. Frank P. Stubbs is a lawyer, banker, planter and capitalist at Monroe, but probably deserves his greatest distinction in Louisiana because of the long service he rendered the Louisiana National Guard, in which he served thirty years, rising from private to colonel of his regiment. He has been one of the men who kept up an organization in times of general apathy toward military training, and deserves a great deal of credit for assisting in equipping and training outstanding troops in readiness for the emergencies of war.

Colonel Stubbs was born at Monroe, May 4, 1872, son of Frank P. and Georgia (Tucker) Stubbs, natives of Georgia. The father settled at Monroe, in Ouachita Parish, in 1849, being then a youth. When the war came on between the states he joined a Louisiana regiment of the Confederate army and fought to the end. He owned and operated a large plantation, but was also a lawyer by profession and served at the time as district attorney and was a member of the constitutional conventions of 1879 and 1898.

Col. Frank P. Stubbs grew up at Monroe, and is a man of liberal education and broad view on many subjects. He received his bachelor of Science degree from the Louisiana State University in 1891, and in 1893 graduated in law from Tulane University. For thirty years, except for periods of active war service, he has been engaged in an extensive general practice at Monroe, and his reputation in the profession extends all over North Louisiana. He is also chairman of the board of the Central Savings Bank & Trust Company, which he served eight years as President, and owns a large group of planting interests He was a member of the Louisiana Constitutional Convention in 1921.

Colonel Stubbs is a veteran of the Spanish-American war, the Mexican border trouble and the World War. His military service in detail is as follows: Private, Separate Company C, Louisiana Militia, 1888-1890; First lieutenant, Separate Company C. Louisiana Militia, 1890; captain, Separate Company C, Louisiana Militia, later Company B, Louisiana First Infantry, Militia of Louisiana, to May 11, 1893; private, Fourth Separate Battalion, Louisiana Militia, 1894-95; captain, commanding Company B, First Louisiana Infantry (Militia), August, 1896, to May 11, 1898; captain, First Louisiana Volunteer Infantry, commanding Company B, in the war with Spain, May 11, 1898, to October 3, 1898, when he was discharged by reason of the muster out of regiment; captain, Separate Company of Infantry, Louisiana Militia, July, 1899; major, commanding First Separate Battalion Infantry, Louisiana National Guard, August, 1899, to December 5, 1904; colonel, commanding First Louisiana Infantry, National Guard, December 5, 1904, to August 5, 1917; colonel, commanding First Louisiana Infantry and One Hundred Fifty- sixth Infantry, U. S. Army, from August 5, 1917, to November 6, 1918, when regiment was broken up as replacements; went overseas with regiment, August, 1918; colonel of infantry, U. S. Army, unassigned, from November 6, 1918, to January 21, 1919, when discharged at Camp Dix, New Jersey, having returned from overseas January 18, 1919. From January to April, 1918, he attended the brigade and field officers' school at Fort Sam Houston Texas, graduating, and attended special field officers school at Langres, France, November 13, 1918, to December 6, 1918.

Colonel Stubbs has been twice married: June 19, 1898, he married Miss Emily Buckner Richards, of Georgetown, Kentucky, and to them was born a son, Frank P. Stubbs, Jr. Frank P., Jr., is a graduate of the Virginia Military Institute, at Lexington, Virginia, and is now a member of the class of 1925 in the Tulane University law school. October 15, 1912, Colonel Stubbs married Miss Maude Flower, of Alexandria, Louisiana, and to this union have been born three children: Charles, Caroline, and Barry.

Note: The sketch is accompanied by a portrait of the subject.

Contributed 2021 Nov 04 by Mike Miller, from A History of Louisiana, by Henry E. Chambers, published in 1925, volume 2, page 311.