HULL BIOGRAPHIES, Henry County, Missouri ==================================================================== HULL, Herman Millard - b: 1859 DeKalb Co, IL source: 1919 History of Henry Co MO, Uel W. Lamkin, Historical Publishing Co - page: 363 residence: Davis Twp Herman Millard Hull, a "real old settler" of Davis township, was born September 8, 1859, in De Kalb County, Illinois, a son of Silas C. and Angeline Hull, pioneer settlers of Henry County, a sketch of whose lives appears in this volume in connection with the sketch of J. M. Hull, brother of Herman Millard Hull. Mr. Hull accompanied his parents to Henry County in 1866 and was here reared to young manhood and educated in the Willow Branch district school, of which his father was one of the founders. Mr. Hull is owner of a fine farm of eighty acres located in section 23, Davis township, and also owns a timber tract of five acres in section 33. For the past thirty years Mr. Hull has been engaged in carpenter work and farming. He has done a great amount of foundation building in Henry County and has erected more dwelling houses from the ground up than any other carpenter and builder in his section of Henry County. Mr. Hull has always taken a just pride in the thoroughness and reliability of his work, which compares favorably with the best. From 1911 to 1912 he resided in Los Angeles, California, and was there engaged in carpenter work. Mr. Hull was married on April 30, 1884, to Ida May Fahnestock, and to this marriage have been born children as follow: Gary Millard, born February 15, 1885, now managing the La Due Lumber Yard, married Stella Ferry and has one child, Walter G.; Irvin Milton, born October 22, 1888, resides in La Due, married Nellie Maddox and has two children, Richard Henry and Vivian Marie. Mrs. Ida May Hull was born July 26, 1866, in Darke County, Ohio, and is a daughter of Ephraim L. and Sarah (Gessamen) Fahnestock, the latter of whom died in her native State. The Fahnestocks migrated to Henry County, Missouri, in 1871 and Ephraim L. Fahnestock died in this county. H. M. Hull has always been allied with the Democratic party and has held many positions of trust and responsibility in Davis township. He served for some years as township treasurer and for the past twelve years he has filled the office of justice of the peace. Mrs. Hull and the members of the family belong to the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Hull is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, La Due Lodge No. 772. ==================================================================== HULL, J. M. & H. M - b: 1854 Oneida Co, NY source: 1883 History of Henry Missouri , National Historical Co. - page: 735 residence: Davis Twp J. M. and H. M. Hull are prominent men of Henry County. The former was born April 4, 1854, and the latter September 8, 1859, J. M. in Oneida County, New York, and H. M. in DeKalb County, Illinois. Their parents were Silas C. Hull, a native of New York, and Augusta P., nee Linebeck. They were married in Oneida County, New York, in 1850, and in 1856 settled in DeKalb County, Illinois, where they remained ten years, coming thence to Missouri in 1866. Their father died March 20, 1877, and since that time the boys have conducted the operations of the farm. This contains 120 acres, all improved, upon which they annually feed a car load of cattle and keep twenty hogs and thirty sheep. The elder of the brothers managed to acquire a fair common school education in youth, and for some years has employed the winter months in teaching school, and is considered one of the successful instructors of the county. Neither are married. ==================================================================== HULL, J. Melvin - b: 1854 Oneida Co, NY source: 1919 History of Henry Co MO, Uel W. Lamkin, Historical Publishing Co - page: 312 residence: Davis Twp J. Melvin Hull. For over half a century the Hull family have been prominent in the affairs of Henry County, and since the arrival in this county of Silas C. Hull and his family on June 29, 1866, the descendants of this pioneer have occupied useful and honorable places in the civic and agricultural life of the county. J. Melvin Hull, assessor of Davis township, member of the County Council of Defense for his township and for many years a real leader in his community, is a worthy scion of this old family, which came to Missouri from an eastern State in time to assist in laying the foundation for the development and progress which Henry County has enjoyed during past years. J. M. Hull was born on April 4, 1854, in Oneida County, New York, and is the son of Silas C. and Angeline P. (Linebeck) Hull. Silas C. Hull was born in 1829 and died in 1877. He was a native of New York and was a son of Nathaniel Hull, who was born and reared in Connecticut and served his country as a soldier in the War of 1812. The Hulls are descended from one of the oldest and honorable American families of Colonial ancestry. Nathaniel Hull was twice married and reared several sons. Several members of the family served in the Civil War. Angeline P. (Linebeck) Hull was born on May 7, 1829, and died on March 5, 1891. She, also, was a native of Oneida County, New York, and was a daughter of Adam Linebeck (born 1801), married Phoebe Nichols (born 1799, died 1876), the daughter of a Hessian named Nichols, who was an aide-de- camp to Gen. John Burgoyne and was present with Burgoyne at the surrender of the British Army at the battle of Saratoga during the War of the American Revolution. Mr. Nichols then made a permanent settlement in this country, like many others of his nationality. Adam Linebeck, grandfather of J. M. Hull on the maternal side, was the son of a British soldier who served under General Cornwallis, and he also settled in New York after the close of the Revolutionary War. Soon afterward the grandmother of Mrs. Phoebe Linebeck, who was a Hagedorn, came to America. During the War of 1812 the Hagedorns were robbed of a large sum of money. Silas C. Hull left his native State of New York in the fall of 1856 and settled in De Kalb County, Illinois, where the family resided until May 27, 1866, and then started for Missouri, arriving here in the following month. Mr. Hull purchased the farm which is now owned by his son in 1868 and resided thereon until his death. Mr. Hull assisted in the organization of school district No. 68 and served as the first school trustee of the district. He was then elected to the office of township clerk and held this office for four years. During the Mexican War he offered his services to the Government and with his command was ready to entrain when word came that Mexico City had fallen and the war was over. The following children were born to Silas C. Hull and wife: Herman M., a resident of Davis township, and J. Melvin, of this review. Silas C. Hull was a life long Democrat and he and his wife were devout members of the Methodist Church, always interested in religious works and ever trying to advance the educational interests of their community. They were good and faithful pioneers who left their impress for good upon the community. J. Melvin Hull received his education in the Willow Branch school and has always been a student and reader who has kept abreast of the times. For a period of seventeen years he taught school, five years of which were spent in continuous service in his home district. While teaching his work was always within the radius of a few miles of his residence so as to enable him to remain at home with his family. He is capably farming a well improved tract of two hundred forty acres, eighty acres of which comprises his home place and one hundred sixty acres of which is his wife's inheritance. For sixteen years Mr. Hull was a successful breeder of O. I. C. hogs, a department of animal husbandry of which he has made a special and exhaustive study. December 28, 1891, Mr. Hull was united in marriage with Miss Elizabeth Woodson, who was born in Walker township June 3, 1871, a daughter of Chesley G. Woodson, a pioneer resident of Henry County, concerning whose career an extensive review is given elsewhere in this volume. C. G. Woodson was born in Kentucky and migrated to Henry County, Missouri, in pioneer days with his father, Silas Woodson. He served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. The mother of Mrs. Hull was Mary Ann Harness prior to her marriage (born 1837, died 1898). Three sons and a daughter have been born to Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Hull, as follow: Chesley De Loss, born August 29, 1893, residing in Walker township with his grandfather Woodson, married Olga Robinson September 26, 1917; Orin D., born April 10, 1895, enlisted in the National Army, now a corporal, auto mechanic in Truck Company B, 2nd Corps, Artillery Park, Camp Stewart, Newport News, Virginia; Melvin Adam, born November 9, 1897; Mary Angeline, born June 6, 1904, now attending school. The Democratic party has always had the unqualified support of J. M. Hull and he has served his party and the people in various useful capacities. For fifteen years he served as school trustee and has ever been found in the forefront of educational affairs. He has served as assessor of Davis township ever since the township organization went into effect. During the height of the Grange movement he was active in the affairs of this organization. He and Mrs. Hull are valued and useful members of the La Due Methodist Episcopal Church, and for a period of fifteen years she served as superintendent of the LaDue Methodist Sunday school. Mrs. Hull retains her membership with Stone's Chapel of the M. E. Church, South. Mr. Hull is a very useful citizen who is highly respected in Henry County and widely known among the best citizenship of the county. It is his nature to be always active in good works and he is continually being called upon to take the lead in all matters affecting the public welfare, be it religious or school work, matters affecting the township government or raising funds for charity, or spreading patriotic feeling and lining up the citizens for the purchase of Liberty Bonds for the furtherance of the Government's war program. ==================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor. 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