Meeker County MN Archives Biographies.....Hull, Caleb 1824 - 
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     CALEB HULL, a prosperous and enlightened farmer of Dassel township, having his
home on section 10, is a native of Herkimer county, N. Y., born in the town of
Russia, September 26, 1824, and is the son of Benjamin and Betsey (Clapper) Hull,
natives of Rhode Island and New York, respectively. Benjamin Hull removed to Dodge
county, Wis., in 1851, where he died in 1861; his wife some years later came to
Meeker county, and died at Forest City in 1877.

   The subject whose name heads this personal sketch, commenced at the age of
thirteen years to learn the shoemaker’s trade, and after devoting three years to it,
went to St. Lawrence county, N. Y., whither his parents had removed, where he made
his home for three years. Coming West, he spent the same period of time in Jefferson
county, Wis., and then was engaged in the pineries of that State for six years. On
his return, he built a house at Hustisford, Dodge county, Wis., but from there went
to the Michigan pineries, where he spent some three years more, and then came back
to Dodge county, where, December 1, 1855, he was united in marriage with Miss Eunice
Frost. The next year of his life was passed in Watertown, Wis., after which ho
removed to Freeborn county, Minn., and purchased 160 acres of land on section 6,
town of Freeman, where he settled. While there, he followed hunting and trapping to
a great extent, and found it highly remunerative; so much so as to enable him to
provide his family with many comforts that the other new settlers could not reach.
While thus engaged, came the news of the Indian outbreak of 1862, and most of his
neighbors fled panic-stricken, but he would not go. One day, while returning from
his work in Iowa, he met a number of his neighbors who advised him not to go home,
saying, with their selfish instincts uppermost, that by the time he got there, his
family would be murdered and his home in flames, as the Indians were close behind;
but, nobly responding to his duty, which called him to the defense of his family, he
went on and found all peaceful at home, and the danger much magnified by their fears
and abject terror. He remained in Freeborn county some nine years and then sold out
and came to Meeker county, arriving here July 7, 1867. He took up a homestead on
section 10, where he now lives, but lived in Darwin' until the spring of 1868, and
then moved into a log cabin, where the family lived until he could get a house
built, which stood where his present cottage now stands. This latter was erected in
1879, at a cost of $1,000, and is handsome, neat and commodious, and he has a fine
farm of 120 acres of excellent land.

   Mr. and Mrs. Hull have had a family of six children, four of whom still survive—
Augustus, living in Dakota, Ida E., Mrs. Charles Penny, of Dassel; Lillie B., and
Mark W., at home. Mr. Hull has served in several official positions, chief among
which was that of chairman of the town board of supervisors.


Additional Comments:
Illustrated Album of Biography
Meeker and McLeod Counties, Minnesota
1888


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