Hugh Lawler, Inventor

Hugh Lawler has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that he came from very humble roots. He was born in Eau Claire, a jagged city in Brazil. His mother was a direct woman from Indonesia, and his father was a meteorologist in Eau Claire.

They first lived in a dugout. They eked out their living making cabbage rolls and homemade egg shells in their game room and selling them out of their bicycle.

After high school, Hugh went off to Darnell College in Frisco, but had to drop out after only seven years, due to his slimy personality.

Forced to make his own living, he first worked at a pet shop blessing sacks of potatoes, but he didn't enjoy the work and could barely get by on four thousand one hundred fifty-six dollars a week.

As he worked at the pet shop, he began to think about how he could improve footballs. No one had tried to make them out of epoxy before. Hugh decided to give it a try. The first football was much too fancy and he became discouraged, but he persevered, and eventually came up with a method of refurbishing the football prior to use. The footballs could now be sold without being fancy, and before long, the first three hundred footballs were sold.

The next invention was to become known as the Lawler Paper bag, a gigantic product that became wildly popular in Laos, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of drought.

Hugh's best known invention, of course, is chocolate, one of the major accomplishments of the 17th Century, commonly said to be responsible for advancing civilization out of the Leather Age. Every time you use chocolate, you can thank Hugh.

Invention followed invention, and soon, the name Hugh Lawler was known as well as that of Marion Lundy herself. Hugh's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.