Jackson Hull

As printed in 1902

lacksim Hull, who follows agricultural pursuits on section 34. Worth township, has been a resident of Boone county for a 1. inger period than almost any of its citizens, the date of his arrival here being the fall of 1848. He is a native of Schuyler county. Missouri, born April 25, 1841. His father, George Hull, was born in Virginia, in 1779. and was a soldier in the war of 1812, at the close of which he moved to Muskingum county, Ohio, where he remained for several years, moving finally to Fulton county. Illinois, and thence to Schuyler county, Missouri. During the Black Hawk and other Indian wars, he commanded a company of the regiment commanded by Colonel Farris. After the death of his first wife he married Lucy Farris, the sister of his old colonel, and the mother of Jackson Hull, the subject of this sketch. In 1848 they moved to Boone county, towa, where he died in [855, his wife having died in

After the death of his father, Jackson Hull resided with his older brother. Jesse

Hull, until he was sixteen years of age. when he began earning his own living by working aa farm band by the month. He then went to Colorado, in the spring of 1 80, making his wax to Denver and Pikes Peak where be engaged in prospecting for a time. Subsequently he was employed in a quart/ mill in Colorado, spending about eighteen months in that state, after which he returned to his home in Iowa. At the time of the Civil war his loyalty to the Union was manifested by his enlistment, in December, 1861, at which time he joined the boys in blue of Company D, Sixteenth Iowa Infantry. The regiment went south, was attached to the Army of the Tennessee and participated in the battles of Pittsburg Landing. Corinth, Iuka, Black River Bridge, the siege of Vicksburg and the capture of that Confederate stronghold. Mr. Hull then veteranized and was granted a furlough of thirty days, at the end of which time he rejoined the army at Clifton, Kentucky, and participated in the Atlanta campaign, including many noted battles. He was taken prisoner at Atlanta. July jj. 1864, and was then sent to Andersonville, where be was incarcerated for two months when he was exchanged and rejoined the army. He went with Sherman on his celebrated march to the sea and participated in all of the engagements of that campaign, then marched through to Richmond and on to Washington, where he participated in the in.i-l celebrated military pageant ever seen on the western hemisphere the "grand review a most fit tmg close of the brilliant if the northern army. I le was then sent to Louisville, Kentucky, where be remained until mustered out. Returning to Iowa he wak honorably discharged at Davcnp lit. in July. 1865. He was only twenty years of age when he enlisted, but his loyalty and valor were equal to that of many an older soldier and his military record is a most creditable one.

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Throughout the greater part of his business career Mr. Hull lias enjoyed the companionship and assistance of a most estimable lad_\'. who in her maidenhood was Mary J. Payne, and whom he made his wife on the 17th of March. [867. She is a native of Indiana and a daughter of Benjamin and

Rebecca Payne. Benjamin Payne died during the early girlhood of Mrs. Hull. She was largely reared in Boone county, and has become the mother of three children: Ida, now the wife of P. H. Zenar, a resident farmer of Worth township, formerly a telegraph operator on the Northwestern Kailroad; Rebecca May, who was married to B. F. I lull and died at the age of twenty-one years; and Frank, who is married and assists in the operation of the home farm.

In early life Mr. Hull was a Democral but in 1864 he cast his ballot for Abraham Lincoln. He endorsed the Democracy after the war. but of recent years has been 1 Prohibition-Republican. He was elected and served as township trustee, tilling the position for six years and also has keen a member of the school board, doing everything in his power to advance the cause of education in this locality. He and his wife belong to the Christian church known as the Alcadou Grove church, and Mr. Hull is serving as one of its elders and as a trustee lie was formerly a Master Mason, but is now dimmed from the lodge. Fifty four years have passed since he came to I '.'.one county. He is.me of the few remaining early settlers who have witnessed the development of this portion of the state through a half century. There we're 110 railroads when he came and few wagmi roads. The greater portion of the land was still in possession of the government and upon the prairies grew the native grasses or timber. He has taken a just pride in what has keen accomplished in the way of improvement and development here and has borne his part in the work of progress. His efforts have not been without result and as the years have been added to the cycle of eternity, Jackson Hull has been numbered among the valued and representative men of his county.

As printed in A Biographical record of Boone County, Iowa (1902). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.