Millersville University - Touchstone Yearbook (Millersville, PA)

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T O U C H S T O N E is still holding. In 1885 he took the post-graduate courses in the University of Illinois, Bloomington, III., and received the degrees A.M. and Ph.D. Then, heeding the call of the church to assist men in leading better lives, he decided to make valuable use of the few spare minutes that he may find by studying the gospel, so he took the regular lines of study prescribed bv the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and in 1885 was ordained a minister of that denomination by Bishop Warren, of the Quaker City. Though Dr. Hull has never accepted a regular charge, he has done considerable preaching and is a very influential member of the denomination. He is a very staunch supporter and an active member of our school Y. M. C. A. We have, at all times, found him ready and willing to do anything in his power to assist in the good work of the Association. He has frequently led our Sunday morning and the Sunday evening prayer meetings and has always enthused us with his stirring words. He is an active member of the V. W. C. T. U. and has strong convictions on the subject of temperance, and has made this the theme of some of his best lectures. He has, both by precept and example, been influential in causing hundreds of students who have attended this Normal School to make more valuable use of their time, to lead better lives and to prepare themselves to do better than “to board around and furnish their own fuel for thirteen dollars per month.” Dr. Hull is widely known, especially among teachers. For many years he has been a lecturer at county institutes in all parts of this State and adjoining States and has far more demands upon his time than he can possibly fill. He lectures on Mathematics and various other general educational topics. That he is an expert mathematician and a capable teacher is proven by the fact that he has published by the American Book Company the following text books on Mathematics: Mental Arithmetic, Elementary Arithmetic, Complete Arithmetic, Elementary Algebra, Complete Algebra, and Plane and Solid Geometry. All of these books are widely used in public schools, high schools and normal schools in many parts of the United States. More than half a million are now in use. AugustT. 1880,he married Miss Anna, only daughter of Thomas 5

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T O U C H S T () N E George W. Hull The ancestors of Dr. Hull on the paternal side were German, and on the maternal side were French. His grand-father, John Hull, was a carpenter by trade and resided most of his life in Stras-burg, Lancaster County. He was a member of the Lutheran Church, and was the father of seven sons—John, Adam. Joseph, George, Levi, Henry, David. George Hull, our subject’s father, was a man of sterling qualities and strong convictions. In politics he was first a Whig, and later a Republican. He died when I)r. Hull was in his eighth year, hence the training of our subject fell largely to his mother, a woman of great piety and marked executive ability. She lived for her children and gave each the elements of a splendid character and the rich legacy of a beautiful example. Dr. Hull was born September 16, 1852, at Strasburg. He attended the public and high schools of that place, graduating from the latter at the age of eighteen years. In 1871 he entered the elementary class of this school. He graduated in the regular course in 1S74-, and the scientific course in 1875. On account of his excellent character, rare ability and teaching qualities, he was, immediately, chosen assistant Professor of Mathematics at this Normal School. He held this position until 1882, when he resigned to accept the position of Superintendent of the Huntington Public Schools. He was educated in the school of Dr. Edward Brooks, author of Brooks’ series of Mathematics, and he inherited from his maternal grandfather, Chaney Pelen, his talent in this direction. The authorities of this school, feeling that they could not afford to be without the services of so excellent a teacher, recalled him in 1883 as head of the department of Mathematics, which position he 4-

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T () U C II S T O N E Hamblcton, of Bucks County. Pa., and they have six children: Anna May, Arthur H., Horace M., George K., Ruth S. and Charles Wesley. Dr. Hull is held in very high esteem, both as a man and as a teacher, by the bovs and girls of this school, and is one of the most popular members of the Faculty. In testimony whereof, we, the Class of 1910, have unanimously decided to dedicate to him this work.