Hull, William S.

HULL

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Date: 7/5/2021 at 15:20:23

History of Warren County, Iowa; Containing a History of the County, Its Cities, Towns & Etc., by Union Historical Company, 1879, p.717

HULL, WILLIAM S., physician and surgeon, Allen Township, P. O. Carlisle; was born in Rockbridge county, Virginia, April 7, 1828; was raised on a farm, but had all the advantages of a common school education supplimented with two years in Brownsburg College, and one year under Professor McGlothlin, in mathematics and surgery; when twenty-one years of age, he began the study of medicine, with A. J. Hull, of Bourneville, Ohio; he graduated at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, at Keokuk, in 1854; he came to Polk county, in 1849, and married there to Miss M. A., daughter of Jerey Church, deceased, a native of Pennsylvania, May 19, 1853; they have three sons and three daughters: Franklin C., doctor, a graduate of Keokuk, Otho O., Lolo L., Cora E., Emmet E. and Maud M.; he remained in Polk county, till 1855, and then went to Kansas, where he remained till the spring of 1860, and then went to Missouri, and remained till fall, and came back to Polk county, and to his present home in 1862.