Rev. J. J. Hull Biography

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HULL, REV. J. J., was born in Oswego county, N. Y., March 1847.  When eight 
years of age he removed with his parents to Jefferson county, Wisconsin.  His 
father, who was a Baptist minister, settled his family in a log cabin in the 
woods, while he gave his tin to preaching.  The subject of this sketch being the 
oldest of four children was compelled to work hard to help support the family, 
except during the winter when he attended the district school. He was converted 
at the age of twenty-two years.

In less than five weeks after this he preached his first sermon and within a few 
months received a call to become the pastor of two churches, one at Grand 
Prairie, Wis., and the other at Columbia the same state.  He remained with these 
churches five years, and large additions were made to the membership during his 
ministry He also organized a church at Marcelon, Wis., with sixty members. In 
February, 1884, he came to Sioux Falls to attend the funeral his father.  The 
Free Baptist church of this place having just been organized with nine members, 
he received a call to become its pastor, which he accepted, and took up his 
residence in Sioux Falls on the 13th day of May, 1884.  The church flourished 
under his charge during the two years he remained its pastor.  At that time he 
removed to Valley Springs, where he built up a prosperous church, remaining 
there until April 1, 1890.  He then returned to Sioux Falls to take charge of 
the Free Baptist church, which, during his residence at Valley Springs, had 
greatly diminished in membership, but he soon had it in a prosperous condition.  
In 1891 he went to New England and in a short time raised $9,000 for the 
endowment of a Free Baptist college at Winnebago City, Iowa.  In October, 1892, 
he was a delegate to a general conference of his denomination at Lowell, Mass., 
and while there received the sobriquet of "Cyclone Hull." He remained pastor of 
the Free Baptist church at Sioux Falls until he removed to Winnebago City, Iowa, 
in June, 1893.