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Subject: [InBartho] CHARLES E. HULL
Date: 29 Oct 2001 21:42:35 -0700
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Surnames: Hull, Stedham, Carter
Classification: Biography
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I have the book, but it has no cover.
It is filled with biographies, no index.
Typed by Lora Radiches
Surnames in this biography are: Hull, Stedham, Carter
CHARLES E. HULL was born in Bartholomew County, Indiana, August 24, 1896. As a young man he followed farming, was enrolled with the colors during the World war and eventually he entered the insurance field and has been very successful in that line of work. At Columbus he is owner of the Charles E. Hull Insurance Company, an agency that represents the broad service of general service, fire, life, casualty, and he does a very large volume of business every year.
Mr. Hull’s grandfather, Major Hull, was a native of Tennessee, who came to Indiana before the Civil war and was a farmer. William Hull father of Charles E, was born in Bartholomew County and also spent his active life as a farmer. He married Emma Stedham of Bartholomew County. Charles E. Hull was one of a large family of eight children. He attended school in the country districts, graduated from the Columbus High School and was a farmer on his father’s old place until 1922.
On August 15, 1918, he enlisted and was sent to Indianapolis and shortly afterwards was assigned to the Air Service Signal Corps and was at Camp Fort Wayne at Detroit, Michigan, until the armistice. He received his honorable discharge in January, 1919, and then resumed his place on the farm in Bartholomew, County.
In 1922 he took up insurance work and for five years was a solicitor superintendent for life Insurance. He then bought the Reynolds Insurance Agency, a business that was organized in 1883, and has since been sole owner. The business was organized in 1883 by Irvin Reynolds. Mr. Hull’s insurance service in Bartholomew County offers the standard facilities of such well-known companies as Continental Fire, Fidelity & Casualty, He also does a general real estate and rental business. He married Miss Lucille Carter, of Bartholomew County, member of a pioneer family there. They have one child, Nile. Mr. Hull is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd fellows.
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