Grundy County IL Archives Biographies.....Hull, G H 1827 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/il/ilfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Deb Haines ddhaines@gmail.com February 26, 2006, 12:01 am Author: History Grundy County 1882 G. H. Hull, farmer, P. O. Wauponsee. The subject of this sketch is a native of Rensselaer County, York State, born February 25, 1827; he is the third of a family of five, Samuel and Hannah (Green) Hull. The father was a native of New York, born April 29, 1795, and died at his home in Rensselaer County, N. Y., September 12, 1882. His mother, Hannah Green, was born in New York February 28, 1803, and died in New York March, 1874. Subject was married in New York August 17, 1850, to Miss Elizabeth A. Shaw, daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth Shaw, of New York. She was born in Rensselaer County October 24, 1831. They came to Illinois in March, 1854, and settled in Grundy County, 1856, where they now live; he owns a farm of 400 acres of improved farm land, 240 acres in Section 35, of Norman Township, eighty acres in Section 33, of Norman Township, and eighty acres in Section 12 of Vienna Township; splendid residence and improvements on Section 35, nine miles southwest from Morris; value of farm land $50 per acre; engaged in mixed husbandry and stock-raising. They have a family of three - Doer C. Hull, born in York State December 9, 1851, married to Miss Lizzie D. Wilson, December 24, 1873; Earl J. Hull, born in Illinois July 26, 1856, married to Miss Ettie Brown January 25, 1882; Cora E. Hull, born May 11, 1867. Mrs. Hull's parents, Samuel Shaw and Elizabeth Wilkey, were married February 9, 1808; she is the youngest of a family of six children. Her father was born March 25, 1780, and died January 7, 1864; her mother, Elizabeth Wilkey, was born December 16, 1787; and died September 14, 1845. Additional Comments: Source: History of Grundy County, Illinois. (1882) Chicago: O.L. Baskin & Co. Historical Publishers. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/il/grundy/bios/hull389nbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/ilfiles/ File size: 2.3 Kb