Hull, Peter K.

Born: 1811-08-10 Virginia

Died: 1859-11-20 Monticello, Illinois

Born in present-day Highland County, Virginia, Peter K. Hull was a physician, county sheriff, and Mason. He studied medicine at Jefferson College in Pennsylvania. About 1835 he moved to Circleville, Ohio. In March 1839, he married Mary Jane Huston, with whom he had at least three children. He moved to Monticello, Illinois in 1841. After the death of his wife in 1849, he left Monticello to live with his children. He served as sheriff for Piatt County, tended to victims of the cholera epidemic in the county during 1852 and 1853, and moved back to Monticello in 1855. From 1856 until his death, he operated a medical practice in partnership with Byron B. Jones, his former student. Hull died of consumption.

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