 1798 - 1881 (82 years)
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| Name |
Henry Hull [1, 2, 3, 4] |
| Suffix |
M.D. |
| Birth |
20 Oct 1798 |
Washington, Wilkes Co., GA  [1, 2, 4, 5] |
| Gender |
Male |
| Occupation |
Between 1819 and 1829 |
Physician |
| Occupation |
Between 1829 and 1846 |
Chair of mathematics, Univ. of Georgia |
| Occupation |
Aft 1846 |
Farming and study |
| Death |
10 May 1881 [4, 5] |
| Death |
10 May 1888 |
Apparent typographical error [6] |
| Burial |
Oconee Hill Cemetery, Athens, GA [3, 4, 5] |
| Notes |
- From "The Hulls of Georgia" by Augustus Longstreet Hull:
HENRY HULL, second son of HOPE and ANN HULL, born October 20, 1798, was tall and of dark complexion, with curly hair and brown eyes. Even in temper, erect in carriage, graceful and of rare courtesy, he was a type of the Southern gentleman. By profession he was a physician, but gave up the practice after ten years, and occupied the chair of Mathematics in the University of Georgia, of which he was already a Trustee. On July 31, 1823, he ws married to MARY AGNES BACON, and a second time on November 12, 1846, to MARY A. NISBET. After his second marriage Dr. HULL retired from teaching and devoted his time to planting. He died of paralysis May 10, 1888, in the eighty-third year of his age; and though he lived to old age, he retained to the end the erect carriage and genial manners which had marked him through life. Both these brothers were active Stewards in the Methodist church.
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From "The Hull Family in America":
HENRY HULL, M.D., 1798-1888, of Athens, Ga., son of Rev. Hope and Anna Wingfield Hull, m 1st July 31, 1823, to Mary Agnes Bacon, 2nd to Mary A. Nesbit, Nov. 12, 1846. He gave up his medical work and accepted the chair of mathematics in the University of Georgia.
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From "The Record of My Ancestry" by A. L. Hull:
Henry Hull was born in Washington, Ga. [in 1798 and came to Athens] in 1803. He graduated at the University of Ga. in 1815, graduated at Maryland Medical College, Baltimore, in 1818, practised medicine until 1830. Elected Trustee of U. of Ga. in 1825, elected professor of mathematics and astronomy in 1830, served until 1846. Steward in the Methodist Church. In stature tall and erect, of perfect health all his life until his last illness. Died of paralysis after a brief illness in 1881.
"Never was there among you a finer specimen of the Christian gentleman. What is sadly rare in this world, he had a well-bred intellect. The stronghold of his religious life was the realization of the Divine humanity of the Lord Jesus Christ, Son of man because Son of God." From his funeral oration by Dr. A. A. Lipscomb.
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From Hulls and Cobbs by A. L. Hull:
He was interested in agriculture and had a number of farms. For a time was president of the Athens Mfg. Co. and was a director of the National Bank of Athens. In his "Sketches of Athens" he told of events concerning the early history of Athens that are chronicled in no other place. A typical gentleman of the old school.
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From 1850 Census of Clarke County, Georgia:
Hull, Henry, Sr. 50 M W Planter $15,000* Georgia
*Value of real estate
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From The Hull Family of America:
1461. HENRY HULL, M. D., 1798-1888, of
Athens, Ga., son of (720) Rev. Hope and
Anna Wingfield Hull, was married first July 31,
1823, to Mary Agnes Bacon, 18--1839. His
second wife was Mary A. Nisbet, whom he
married Nov. 12, 1846. Dr. Hull gave up the
practice of his profession after following it
about ten years and accepted the "Chair of
Mathematics in the University of Georgia, of
which he was already a Trustee." After his
second marriage he gave up teaching and
devoted his time to planting. He and his brother
Henry were for many years Stewards in the
Methodist Church.
CHILDREN
2,614. Lucy Ann Hull, b. Nov. 13, 1824; d. June 25, 1880; m. 184
John S. Linton, M. D.
2,615. Julia Hull, b. Apr. 17, 1832; d. Feb. 14, 1874; unmarrie
2,616. William H. Hull, b. Oct. 8, 1835; d. Nov. 3, 1881; unmarrie
2,617. Augustus L. Hull, b. Sept. 8, 1847; m. 1871, Callie Cob
2,618. Lelia M. Hull, b. Nov. 18, 1850; m. James McKimmon.
2,619. John Hope Hull, b. Oct. 28, 1856; m. 1883, Rose Deloney.
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From www.math.uga.edu/history/
Henry Hull, 1799-1882
Henry Hull came to Athens in 1803 when he was four years old, when his father, Hope Hill, a Methodist minister, relocated from Washington, Ga. In 1808 Hope caused to be erected on the campus a chapel, not to be used by one denomination more than others.
Henry graduated in the class of 1815, following which he went to Johns Hopkins and obtained an MD. He then practiced medicine in Athens and became a Trustee of the College in 1825. When the professorship of mathematics became vacant in 1829 he succeeded to it, preferring the study of mathematics to the distasteful drudgery of a country practice.
In 1801, John Milledge, Governor of Georgia, 1802-6, bought and donated to the College 3000 acres adjacent to the present campus, to the west. In 1842, during a financial crisis when the appropriation by the state legislature was discontinued, Dr. Hull was authorized by the Trustees to survey and plat these lands, which were advertised and sold. The sum obtained at that time was $8500, which allowed the college to continue, although three faculty members were terminated.
In 1846 Hull retired to a farm near Athens, where he lived until he was 83.
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| Person ID |
I0338 |
Hull |
| Last Modified |
13 Feb 2021 |
| Father |
Hope Hull, b. 13 Mar 1763, Worcester Co., MD d. 4 Oct 1818, Athens, Clarke Co., GA (Age 55 years) |
| Mother |
Ann Nancy Wingfield, b. 22 May 1759, Anna River, Hanover Co., VA d. 25 Nov 1832, Athens, Clarke Co., GA (Age 73 years) |
| Marriage |
13 Mar 1796 |
Washington, GA [3, 4, 7] |
| Histories |
 | 1904: The Hulls of Georgia
Augustus Longstreet Hull's history of the Hull family of Georgia, Athens, Ga., 1904
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| Family ID |
F132 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Photos |
 | 1870 Henry Hull
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 | John Cole
Slave of Henry Hull. An interview with John Cole can be found in the Slave Narratives of the WPA Federal Writers Project at the Library of Congress Web site, Born in Slavery, at https://memory.loc.gov/mss/mesn/041/041.pdf. |
| Headstones |
 | Grave marker: Henry Hull
DR. HENRY HULL
BORN
OCTOBER 20, 1798
DIED
MAY 10, 1881
THOU SHALT COME TO THY
GRAVE IN A FULL AGE,
LIKE AS A SHOCK OF CORN
COMETH IN IN HIS SEASON.
HIS DELIGHT WAS IN THE
LAW OF THE LORD
AND IN HIS LAW DID HE
MEDITATE BOTH DAY AND
NIGHT.
MARK THE PERFECT MAN
AND BEHOLD THE UPRIGHT,
FOR THE END OF THAT MAN
IS PEACE.
Plot: Hull, East Hill |
| Histories |
 | Cleaning Up the Ancestors
An account of the cousins' adventures in cleaning the ancestors' gravestones at Oconee Hill Cemetery in Athens, Georgia, April 2010. |
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| Sources |
- [S06248] Augustus Longstreet Hull, The Hulls of Georgia, (Athens, GA, April 1904), 4.
- [S07084] Hull Family in America.
- [S07508] Augustus Longstreet Hull, Hull and Cobb History, (Unpublished).
- [S02634] A. L. Hull, The Record of My Ancestry, (Unpublished).
- [S11225] Editor: Charlotte Thomas Marshall, Oconee Hill Cemetery, (1971 Athens HIstorical Society, Athens, GA).
- [S06248] Augustus Longstreet Hull, The Hulls of Georgia, (Athens, GA, April 1904).
- [S06248] Augustus Longstreet Hull, The Hulls of Georgia, (Athens, GA, April 1904), 3.
- [S06248] Augustus Longstreet Hull, The Hulls of Georgia, (Athens, GA, April 1904), 5.
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