California Biographies

Source:
History of Napa and Lake Counties
San Francisco, Slocum, Bowen & Co., Publishers. 1881

Transcribed by Peggy Hooper 2011

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives 
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/index.htm


A. J. HULL.  Was born in Johnson County, Indiana, September 8, 1846. He resided there until the fall of 
1857, when he, with his parents, moved to Illinois, residing there until December, 1861, when he 
enlisted in Company H, 2d Illinois Light Artillery. Re-enlisted in March, 1864, and was mustered out 
August 8,1865, having served in the 17th and 20th corps of the Army of the Tennessee. He returned to 
Illinois, remaining in that State and Iowa, working on a farm and teaching school for awhile. He 
afterwards attended the Iowa State University, from which he graduated in 1873; was admitted to the 
bar of the Supreme Court of Iowa in December, 1872. April 12, 1874, he was united in marriage with 
Lottie J. Waite, of Vermont, at Mason City, Mason County, Illinois, who was born in Shoreham, 
Addison County, that State, March 4, 1848. April 29, 1874, they arrived in California, settling in Napa 
County, where he engaged in teaching school through the summer and fall of that year, and began the 
practice of law in December, 1874, at Napa. One child, Lottie May, born May 27, 1880.