BIO: Israel Hull, Cumberland County, PA

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania.
Containing History of the Counties, Their Townships, Towns, Villages, 
Schools, Churches, Industries, Etc.; Portraits of Early Settlers and 
Prominent Men; Biographies; History of Pennsylvania; Statistical and 
Miscellaneous Matter, Etc., Etc.  Illustrated.  Chicago: Warner, Beers 
& Co., 1886.
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                                PART II.

             HISTORY OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA.

                             CHAPTER LVIII.

    SOUTH MIDDLETON TOWNSHIP AND BOROUGH OF MOUNT HOLLY SPRINGS.

554  BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES:

  ISRAEL HULL, farmer and stock-grower, P. O. Mount Holly Springs, was 
born in Lancaster County, Penn., February 23, 1821, son of Peter and 
Anna (Metz) Hull, also natives of Lancaster County and of Holland-Dutch 
descent.  Peter Hull was a farmer by occupation; his father Peter Hull, 
Sr., served as a soldier in the Revolutionary war.  Israel Hull, the 
fourth in a family of six children, attended the common school and 
worked on the farm until he was seventeen years old; then learned 
wagon-making, which occupation he followed until he attained his 
majority; he then, for several years, traveled extensively, going over 
the road between California and Pennsylvania eight times (working in 
the mines in California), and sailed on the ocean, visiting the 
Sandwich Islands, working in the shipyards there for ten months; he 
next embarked for San Francisco, Cal., arriving there a few months 
previous to the discovery of gold.  In 1850 he came to New York, and in 
the same year to Mechanicsburg, Penn.  Mr. Hull was married, in 1850, 
to Hannah, daughter of John and Hannah (Orth) Ricker, also natives of 
Pennsylvania and of German origin.  To this union were born two 
children:  Clara Jane and Margaret M.  Mrs. Hull died in 1857.  In 
politics our subject is a Republican.  He is a member of Chico Lodge, 
No. 113, I. O. O. F., of California.  In business he has been 
successful and is the owner of a well improved farm near Mount Holly 
Springs.