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History: Hull Twp., Marathon Co., Wis. (1913)

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----Source: History of Marathon County Wisconsin and Representative Citizens, by Louis Marchetti, 1913, pg. 552 -  553.

----Township of Hull, Marathon Co., Wisconsin 1913 History

TOWN OF HULL.

Hull was the first town organized on the "line," having been established
on March 3, 1873. It took its name from David B. Hull, the pioneer settler
mentioned in an earlier chapter. Its first representative in the county board
of Marathon county was D. B. Hull, after whom the town was named. Its
territory was limited to township 28, range 2 east ; on the same day the county board established also the town of Brighton, but the act establishing town of
Brighton was repealed in the same session, leaving "Hull" as the only town
from the "line."

This town was more rapidly settled by farmers than any of the others;
the good government lands which could be taken under the homestead law,
within from one to ten miles from a railroad line were very inviting to landless
men, and had much to do with the rapid growth. There is now one saw
mill in the town at a place called "Cherokee," a little distance north from
Colby. The mill is owned and operated by E. V. Kautzki, of Colby, who buys
logs and does custom sawing for farmers. With this exception the population
is composed of farmers. The first settlers were, with but few exceptions,
native Americans, but there has been a change. Most of the farmers are now
naturalized citizens of Gennan and Slavic descent.

The town supplies five cheese factories with milk, giving the farmers a
good income from their farms.

There are four school districts, each having a good up-to-date, modem
schoolhouse.

There is one Presbyterian and one Methodist congregation, each having
a neat frame church, with ministers holding regular services coming from
Abbotsford, most of the settlers belonging to some of the congregations in
the nearby villages or the city of Colby.