Dr. J. W. Hull

Dr. W. J. Hull, 226 Sixth avenue, Dayton, Chief Medical Staff, G.A.R. Encampment, was born March 21, 1863 near Maysville, Ky.; his father, W. W. Hull, and his mother, a Miss Belle Evens, were of prominent families.  Samuel Hull, his grandfather, was in the war of 1812.  He is also a descendent of Commodore Isaac Hull, of naval fame.  Dr. Hull came to Dayton in 1884, engaging in the paint business with the Indian Paint Co.  He was married to Miss Lida Thomas of this city.  Dr. Hull is a graduate of the Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery and was on the staff of the Surgeon General of the Kentucky Division of the Confederate Veterans of Nashville in 1897.

The GAR (a short history of the organization is at this site) held it's annual encampment in Dayton in September,1898.  All of the Dayton images and texts dated 1898 are from the souvenir booklet prepared for the occasion.