SUBLETT, FRANK BOLIVAR (ca. 1830-?). Frank Bolivar Sublett, planter and Confederate soldier, was born in San Augustine around 1830, the son of Easter Jane (Roberts) and Philip A. Sublett.^qv He settled in Trinity County, probably in the early 1850s, and developed a large and prosperous plantation. By 1860 he owned 80,000 acres, the largest landholdings in Trinity County, and 117 slaves. He was thus among the largest slaveholders in Texas on the eve of the Civil War.^qv In 1860, according to the census, his plantation produced 400 bales of cotton and 5,000 bushels of corn. During the war Sublett served as a brigadier general in the Third Texas State Brigade. He was remembered as a man of high intelligence and a gifted orator but preferred the quiet life of a planter and never ran for public office. Nothing is known regarding his activities after the war.

BIBLIOGRAPHY: Randolph B. Campbell, An Empire for Slavery: The Peculiar Institution in Texas, 1821-1865 (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1989). Vertical Files, Barker Texas History Center, University of Texas at Austin. Ralph A. Wooster, "Wealthy Texans, 1860," Southwestern Historical Quarterly 71 (October 1967).

Christopher Long