JOHN ALBERT TIFFIN HULL
HULL, JOHN ALBERT TIFFIN, student at Asbury university, Indiana, and Wesleyan college, Iowa, 1858-61; Cincinnati law school, LL.B., 1862; officer in the Civil war, 1862-63; lawyer and editor, Iowa, 1864-72; secretary of Iowa state senate, 1872-78; secretary of the state of Iowa, 1878-82; lieutenant-governor of Iowa, 1886-90; representative in the United States congress since 1891; was born in Sabine, Clinton county, Ohio, May 1, 1841. His father, Andrew Young Hull, was a physician, held the position of state senator and was noted for the faculty he possessed of grasping and elucidating political questions; and for this reason he was consulted by his neighbors on the questions of the day. His mother, who was Margaret Tiffin before her marriage to Doctor Hull, was a woman of remarkable moral and spiritual insight and largely molded the life of her son. His first American ancestor, John Hull, came from England to America about the middle of the seventeenth century and settled in New England. John A. T. Hull removed with his parents to Iowa in 1849, and after attending the public schools he matriculated at Asbury university, Indiana, changed to Wesleyan college, Mount Pleasant, Iowa, but did not graduate, leaving college to give his whole time to the study of law; and he was graduated at the Cincinnati law school, Cincinnati, Ohio, LL.B., 1862. In July 1862, he enlisted in the 23d Iowa regiment of infantry and was elected first lieutenant and promoted to captain. He served in the Army of the Tennessee under General U. S. Grant, his regiment being commanded by Colonel Robert P. Kinsman, who was killed, and subsequently by Colonel Samuel L. Glasgow; and he was assigned to the 2d brigade, 14th division, 13th army corps, General John A. McClernand in the Vicksburg campaign. He was wounded in a charge made by his regiment on the Confederate entrenchment at Big Black River Bridge, Mississippi, May 17, 1863, his brigade losing twenty-seven killed and one hundred and ninety-four wounded. He resigned on account of his wound in October, 1863, and returned to Des Moines, where he engaged in the practice
