WAS A PIONEER
Delos Hull Was Postmaster in Early Days of Village
Delos Hull, who died recently in Colorado and was brought to Oak Park for burial in Forest Home will long be remembered in this village for the interest and activities he displayed for many years in the commercial and civic affairs of the community.
Mr. Hull was born in 1842 at DeRuyter, New York, of Dutch and English Quaker stock. He was educated in the local schools and came to Illinois shortly before the Civil War broke out. At the beginning of the war he enlisted in the Eighth Ill. Cavalry, and served four years with the Army of the Potomac fighting at Gettysburg and all the principal battles in which that famous army was engaged. At the close of the war he returned to Illinois and in 1868 married Miss Amelia Whaples, a daughter of one of the pioneers of Oak Park. For many years he was connected with the wholesale clothing house of Charles P. Kellogg & Co. until President Harrison appointed him postmaster of Oak Park in 1889. During his term of office the present post office district was consolidated and free delivery and other improvements instituted. At the expiration of his term he went into the coal business, was president of the Coal Dealers' Association of Illinois and Wisconsin for a number of years and of the National Council of Coal Dealers, also established a coal trade journal, The Retail Coal-man, which has a national circulation.
In 1913 he retired from active business and two years later he and Mrs. Hull went to Canon City, Colorado to live in order to be near their only daughter, Mrs. Geo. Linden. He belonged to the Masonic order, Phil Sheridan G. A. R. Post of which he was one time commander, and for many years was a member of the First Congregational Church.
—Oak Parker (Oak Park IL), 21 Apr 1923, pg. 48
Enlisted 7 Sep 1861 and mustered into the U. S. Service 9 Sep 1861 as a private in Company H, Eighth Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Cavalry, which was attached to the Army of the Potomac.
First discharged 31 Dec 1863, at Culpepper, VA, but reenlisted under general order 191, C. S. War Department.
Final discharge at Benton Barracks, St. Louis MO, on 11 July 1865.
Had a twin brother, DeWitt, who died shortly after his return from the army, 1865.
Delos Hull Was Postmaster in Early Days of Village
Delos Hull, who died recently in Colorado and was brought to Oak Park for burial in Forest Home will long be remembered in this village for the interest and activities he displayed for many years in the commercial and civic affairs of the community.
Mr. Hull was born in 1842 at DeRuyter, New York, of Dutch and English Quaker stock. He was educated in the local schools and came to Illinois shortly before the Civil War broke out. At the beginning of the war he enlisted in the Eighth Ill. Cavalry, and served four years with the Army of the Potomac fighting at Gettysburg and all the principal battles in which that famous army was engaged. At the close of the war he returned to Illinois and in 1868 married Miss Amelia Whaples, a daughter of one of the pioneers of Oak Park. For many years he was connected with the wholesale clothing house of Charles P. Kellogg & Co. until President Harrison appointed him postmaster of Oak Park in 1889. During his term of office the present post office district was consolidated and free delivery and other improvements instituted. At the expiration of his term he went into the coal business, was president of the Coal Dealers' Association of Illinois and Wisconsin for a number of years and of the National Council of Coal Dealers, also established a coal trade journal, The Retail Coal-man, which has a national circulation.
In 1913 he retired from active business and two years later he and Mrs. Hull went to Canon City, Colorado to live in order to be near their only daughter, Mrs. Geo. Linden. He belonged to the Masonic order, Phil Sheridan G. A. R. Post of which he was one time commander, and for many years was a member of the First Congregational Church.
—Oak Parker (Oak Park IL), 21 Apr 1923, pg. 48
Enlisted 7 Sep 1861 and mustered into the U. S. Service 9 Sep 1861 as a private in Company H, Eighth Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Cavalry, which was attached to the Army of the Potomac.
First discharged 31 Dec 1863, at Culpepper, VA, but reenlisted under general order 191, C. S. War Department.
Final discharge at Benton Barracks, St. Louis MO, on 11 July 1865.
Had a twin brother, DeWitt, who died shortly after his return from the army, 1865.
WAS A PIONEER
Delos Hull Was Postmaster in Early Days of Village
Delos Hull, who died recently in Colorado and was brought to Oak Park for burial in Forest Home will long be remembered in this village for the interest and activities he displayed for many years in the commercial and civic affairs of the community.
Mr. Hull was born in 1842 at DeRuyter, New York, of Dutch and English Quaker stock. He was educated in the local schools and came to Illinois shortly before the Civil War broke out. At the beginning of the war he enlisted in the Eighth Ill. Cavalry, and served four years with the Army of the Potomac fighting at Gettysburg and all the principal battles in which that famous army was engaged. At the close of the war he returned to Illinois and in 1868 married Miss Amelia Whaples, a daughter of one of the pioneers of Oak Park. For many years he was connected with the wholesale clothing house of Charles P. Kellogg & Co. until President Harrison appointed him postmaster of Oak Park in 1889. During his term of office the present post office district was consolidated and free delivery and other improvements instituted. At the expiration of his term he went into the coal business, was president of the Coal Dealers' Association of Illinois and Wisconsin for a number of years and of the National Council of Coal Dealers, also established a coal trade journal, The Retail Coal-man, which has a national circulation.
In 1913 he retired from active business and two years later he and Mrs. Hull went to Canon City, Colorado to live in order to be near their only daughter, Mrs. Geo. Linden. He belonged to the Masonic order, Phil Sheridan G. A. R. Post of which he was one time commander, and for many years was a member of the First Congregational Church.
—Oak Parker (Oak Park IL), 21 Apr 1923, pg. 48
Enlisted 7 Sep 1861 and mustered into the U. S. Service 9 Sep 1861 as a private in Company H, Eighth Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Cavalry, which was attached to the Army of the Potomac.
First discharged 31 Dec 1863, at Culpepper, VA, but reenlisted under general order 191, C. S. War Department.
Final discharge at Benton Barracks, St. Louis MO, on 11 July 1865.
Had a twin brother, DeWitt, who died shortly after his return from the army, 1865.
Delos Hull Was Postmaster in Early Days of Village
Delos Hull, who died recently in Colorado and was brought to Oak Park for burial in Forest Home will long be remembered in this village for the interest and activities he displayed for many years in the commercial and civic affairs of the community.
Mr. Hull was born in 1842 at DeRuyter, New York, of Dutch and English Quaker stock. He was educated in the local schools and came to Illinois shortly before the Civil War broke out. At the beginning of the war he enlisted in the Eighth Ill. Cavalry, and served four years with the Army of the Potomac fighting at Gettysburg and all the principal battles in which that famous army was engaged. At the close of the war he returned to Illinois and in 1868 married Miss Amelia Whaples, a daughter of one of the pioneers of Oak Park. For many years he was connected with the wholesale clothing house of Charles P. Kellogg & Co. until President Harrison appointed him postmaster of Oak Park in 1889. During his term of office the present post office district was consolidated and free delivery and other improvements instituted. At the expiration of his term he went into the coal business, was president of the Coal Dealers' Association of Illinois and Wisconsin for a number of years and of the National Council of Coal Dealers, also established a coal trade journal, The Retail Coal-man, which has a national circulation.
In 1913 he retired from active business and two years later he and Mrs. Hull went to Canon City, Colorado to live in order to be near their only daughter, Mrs. Geo. Linden. He belonged to the Masonic order, Phil Sheridan G. A. R. Post of which he was one time commander, and for many years was a member of the First Congregational Church.
—Oak Parker (Oak Park IL), 21 Apr 1923, pg. 48
Enlisted 7 Sep 1861 and mustered into the U. S. Service 9 Sep 1861 as a private in Company H, Eighth Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Cavalry, which was attached to the Army of the Potomac.
First discharged 31 Dec 1863, at Culpepper, VA, but reenlisted under general order 191, C. S. War Department.
Final discharge at Benton Barracks, St. Louis MO, on 11 July 1865.
Had a twin brother, DeWitt, who died shortly after his return from the army, 1865.
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