Hull, James H. (1849-1916)

HULL

Posted By: Karon Velau (email)
Date: 12/6/2016 at 21:09:40

The Advocate-Tribune newspaper, Indianola, Iowa, Thursday, Dec 14, 1905, front page

JAMES H. HULL
J. H. Hull was born near the little town of Greenfield, Highland county, Ohio, on the 3rd day of January, 1849. His father, John Hull, and uncle, Dr. A. Y. Hull, settled at old Lafayette in Polk county, Iowa, in October 1849; the subject of our sketch was nine months old. His boyhood was spent in Polk county. At the age of twenty-one years he was married to Miss Sarah Corzatt, and has been a resident of Warren county since his marriage; from this union there are three children, two daughters and one son. From some years after Mr. Hull’s marriage he rented land and engaged in raising corn, wheat, oats, hogs, etc; but about thirty years ago he, in connection with his farming, engaged in another business, which people do not value as they ought, and that was the poultry business. Mr. Hull buys veal calves, chickens, ducks, geese, and turkeys; he has for the past twelve years paid out an average of $100 per week, or $5000 a year to the farmers’ wives of Richland and Palmrya township for poultry. An old hen weighing six and a quarter pounds at eight cents a pound brings fifty cents. Many farmers do not seem to realize that there is more clear money in the chicken and egg business which their wives sell than there is in the hogs and cattle which they feed. I have told how much Mr. Hull pays out weekly in his business, but have not told how much he takes in; he did not tell me, but if the reader will go to a point equally distant from Palmrya, Hartford and Carlisle he will find the home of Jim Hull, the rooster peddler, consisting of eighty acres of as find land as there is in Warren county, with good buildings; the farm is worth $100 per acre. Here Jim and his son raise hogs, cattle, horses, carrying on a general farming business in connection with his poultry business. He goes out on Fridays and Saturdays and buys his chickens, takes them in on Wednesdays and markets them in Des Moines Thursdays of each week. Mr. Hull has furnished the farmers’ wives a good market for their poultry and made for himself and family a good home. Mr. Hull’s success in the poultry business is an object lesson for the young man beginning the battle of life. Some look down upon the rooster peddler as a man of inferior ability, but the history of the world teaches us that nothing succeeds like success. Jim Hull has succeeded by putting thought into his business. Thought, economy and industry are the essential elements of a successful life. Look around and see how many men in Warren county in the last forty years have gone to the wall by buying and shipping cattle and hogs. It is the man that makes the business and not the business that makes the man.