Sacramento County Biographies

JOSEPH HULL SR.

Transcribed by: Nancy Pratt Melton

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SUTTER TOWNSHIP. 
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	farmer; lives two miles from Sacramento; Post Office, 
Brighton. Owns one hundred and seventy-five acres of land, valued at about 
$10,000. Born in Ohio in 1813. Lived there and engaged principally in 
school-teaching until 1845; then crossed the plains to Oregon. Engaged in 
farming until September, 1848, when he then left Oregon City and started for 
California overland, via Klamath Lake and Modoc Lava Beds. He mined at Parks' 
Bar, on the main Yuba River, for about six weeks. He then returned to Oregon, 
and in May, 1849, moved with family to this State, and lived in Amador County 
until the Fall of that year. Moved to Benicia, and in the Summer of 1850 came to 
Sacramento and engaged in teaming until 1852; then moved to his present 
location, where he has been engaged in farming up to the present time. At the 
time of Mr. Hull's residence in Oregon City, Oregon, a Masonic Lodge was 
organized; it was the first Lodge organized on the Pacific Coast. They received 
their charter from the Grand Lodge of Missouri in 1848. Mr. Hull was the first 
Master of the Lodge. He has held the office of President of the Board of 
Trustees of Levee District No. 2, lying south and east of Sacramento; was also a 
member of the Board of Supervisors for about four years. Married Susan Cazel in 
1840; she was born in Ohio. They have three sons and one daughter. 

Source: History of Sacramento County, California With Illustrations 1880 by 
Thompson & West.