Sedgwick-Butler County KS Archives Biographies.....Hull, Myron L. 1874 - 
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Author: O. H. Bentley (1910)

   Myron L. Hull is the director of the Metropolitan School of Music of Wichita,
Kan., which was established by Mr. Hull March 1, 1905. In its first year the
school had an enrollment of 100, which was increased to 300 in 1910. The school
specializes on the piano, brass and stringed instruments. Mr. Hull was born in
Butler county, Kansas, on August 24, 1874. His parents were Lewis and Eliza (St.
Clair) Hull, natives of Ohio, who came to Kansas in 1873 and located in Butler
county, where they resided until the death of Mr. Hull in 1902, at the age of
sixty-one. Myron L. Hull was the fourth child of a family of seven, all of whom
are living. He was educated in the public schools of Butler county, the Augusta
High School and the Great Bend (Kansas) Normal School, and also received a
commercial training. His musical education was begun at the College of Music in
St. Joseph, Mo., and while there he studied violin and voice culture. In 1903
Mr. Hull went to Chicago, where he studied with Prof. F. W. Root, Signor Tomaso
and Joseph Kneer, the latter being for years associated with the Thomas
Orchestra. He then went to Philadelphia, Pa., where he had charge of the Osborne
Conservatory of Music for the term of 1904. While in Philadelphia Mr. Hull also
studied with Mr. F. W. Wurtele, of that city, and afterward supplemented this
with a course of instruction under W. A. Fritschy and Samuel Siegel, of New York
City. After this Mr. Hull returned to Kansas and opened a chain of schools,
including Wichita and Oklahoma City. The Wichita school grew to such proportions
that Prof. Hull was obliged to devote his whole attention to it, and from this
beginning the Metropolitan School of Music developed and has become one of the
leading institutions of its kind in the Southwest. Prof. Hull is well known in
musical circles and has sung with the Apollo Club in recital and also in the
church choirs of Wichita. He was for three years with the Masonic Quartet and is
frequently a singer at Jewish services. Prof. Hull has also devoted considerable
time to composing. Two of his compositions for mandolin, an instrument which he
has adopted as his especial favorite, "Lullaby, A Token," and "Barcarolle, The
Gondolier's Dream," have been especially well received.

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History of Wichita and Sedgwick County: past and present, including an account
of the cities, towns and villages of the county

Editor in chief: O. H. Bentley
Chicago: C.F. Cooper & Co. (1910)


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