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Hull, Ethan A., was born in Fairfield, Vt., July 1, 1813. His grandfather, Jehial, born in Connecticut, married
Terusha Phelps and had seven children, of whom Anson (father of Ethan A.) was the fifth. Anson Hull, born in 1772,
moved from Norfolk, Conn., to Whiting, Vt, and in 1799 he married. Susan Whaley, of Fairfield, by whom he had fourteen
children. Ethan A. Hull married Melinda L., daughter of Oliver Austin, of Berkshire, February 23, 1842. She was
born January 11, 1821. Her grandfather, William Laribee, came from Weathersfield, Vt., in 1807, and married Amy
Royce, who bore him seven children. Ethan A. Hull had but a common school education, and early learned the clothier's
trade, at which he worked winters and on the farm summers. About 1841 he began to speculate in cattle and real
estate, and in 1861 came from Cambridge, bought land, and settled on his present 'home in Berkshire. He represented
his town in 1870 and was sent to the state Senate in 1876. He has been selectman and held other town offices many
years, and was also one of the railroad commissioners who were largely instrumental in paying up the railroad bonds
about 1870. He has three children: Clark A., born October 11, 1843; Delia, born June 6, 1845, married Guy Clark,
of Berkshire, December 29, 1864; and Mark A., born August 23, 1851, who married Belle W., daughter of Chester Wilde,
of Berkshire, August 23, 1876. Mark Hull is now living on the homestead, and his two children are Fenuom W., born
December 21, 1878, and Addie M., born February 27, 1880.
From:
History of Franklin and Grand Isle Counties Vermont
Edited by: Lewis Cass Aldrich
D. Mason & Co., Publishers
Syracuse, N. Y.
1891
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