H. O. HULL
H. O. Hull was born in Grant county, Wisconsin, February 20, 1842. He is a son of H. O. Hull, of Monroe county, Illinois, who was born in 1800, and Charlotte (Owens) Hull, a native of Ohio, born in 1818. By this union there was a family of six sons and five daughters. They settled about 1840, in Grant county, Wisconsin, where he engaged in mining. They remained in the mining districts of Galena and Dubuque nine years. In 1849 they removed to Delaware county, Iowa, where he was killed by a runaway team in 1870. The subject of this sketch went to Delaware county with his parents and was there reared upon a farm. His education was obtained in a log school house, with puncheon floors and slabs for seats. He was married in the fall of 1862 to T. M. Scovel, by whom he had eight children, five of whom are living - Lillie, wife of C. L. Calkins, of Anita; Mary, Nancy, Thomas and Arthur. Mr. Hull settled, after his marriage, in Clayton county, Iowa, and remained until 1868, then removed to Polk county. In the fall of 1876 he settled in Anita and embarked in the stock business, which he has since followed. Soon after his arrival, he purchased a half interest in the business of G. W. Chafa. This firm purchased from one hundred and fifty to two hundred car loads of stock yearly. Mr. Hull commenced business in very limited circumstances and has by hard work acquired a competence. He handles Walter A. Woods' and McCormick reapers, J. I. Case threshers, Moline and Studebaker wagons, buggies, and everything that is generally to be found in a first-class agricultural house.
Contributed by Lisa Varnes-Rex from "History of Cass County, Iowa. Together With Sketches of its Towns, Villages and Townships, Educational, Civil, Military and Political History: Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Old Settlers and Representative Citizens." Springfield, Ill.: Continental Historical Company, 1884, pg. 698.
