Wayne-Oakland County MI Archives Biographies.....Hulett, Max ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/mi/mifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Lynn Hulett rooney41@earthlink.net August 22, 2009, 4:34 pm Source: Letter to family researcher Author: Max Hulett Max Hulett Attorney and Counsellor 33601 Shiawasee Ave Farmington, Mich. 48024 January 24, 1970 Dear Mrs. Culp, I have before me your letter to my daughter-in-law, Mrs. John B. Hulett, of the 21st in reference to her article in "Women's Day" magazine. John is the younger of my two sons, both of whom were born in Detroit, where I was also born. Brought up and practiced law for about 30 years after my marriage. My father, whose name was Orren Stephen Hulett and my mother were both born in small towns not far from Farmington in Oakland Co., father in Milford and mother in Novi. When I moved my family from Detroit out here, a close suburb of Detroit, I was really coming back to the old region where my great-great grandfather on my mother's side and my grandfather on my father's side settled. My father was born in Milford, Michigan in 1850. His father, whose name was Josiah Hibbard Hulett, was born in New Hampshire in 1813. He owned and ran a hotel in some small town in New York state [and] a town in N.H. Grandfather was a wagon maker by trade. He moved his family to Novi when my father was about 18 and had a wagon shop there. What I have heard of Grampa's history he was something of a roamer. He went off to California in the '49 Gold Rush and fought in the Civil War. I never heard whether he and Grandma lived together after the war or not. Father in about 1870 built a large home in Novi, where he and Grandma lived and where he took mother after their marriage in 1875. After the first three children, older than I, were born he moved his family to Detroit, taking a job with D.M. Ferry Seed Co. That was in the fall of 1884. I was born the next year, July, 1885. Grandfather lived to a good old age. I think he was 88 or 89. I know I was a boy in high school at the time. I remember him well. He lived in the Upper Peninsula, Hancock, Michigan, with my aunt (his daughter). He was a small man with long white whiskers. He came to Detroit often to visit us. We kids loved to have him. He was jovial, kind, and good to us. After father retired he and mother went back to the old home in Novi to live and they both died there. He lived in the house alone for 15 years after her death and he passed away in 1937 at the age of 87. I graduated from the University of Michigan, literary department, in the class of 1909 and then went on to study law and was admitted to practice in 1911. I still own the old home in Novi [but] live in my home here in Farmington. My younger son, John, lives over back of me and his four youngsters [3 boys and 1 girl] have free access to my garden gate [Max also referred to his older son, who had one son and one daughter]. Cordially, Max Hulett Additional Comments: "Mrs. Culp" was Kate Hulett, daughter of Merritt Clark Hulett's second marriage to Amelia Horton. Kate married Elmer Culp in 1938. In 1970 the Culps were residing in Wells, VT. Kate was a descendant of Daniel Hulett and Abigail Paul, who settled in Pawlet, Vt after the Revolutionary War. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/wayne/bios/hulett1130gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/mifiles/ File size: 3.6 Kb