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2812 . GEORGIA AND GEORGIANSwas well balanced by his intellectual acquisitions and his services requiredand granted in the capacity of professor of languages. His wife, nee LucyHarvie, was another native Georgian. Their son, James M. Hull, was anofficer of the Confederacy. As captain of .Clark's Light Brigade, he gavevaliant service, but in so doing contracted a severe case of pneumonia whichresulted in his death at the age of twenty-five. He had married a young ladynamed Georgia Rucker, a member of another of Georgia's old families. Twosons had been born to them. One of these, Asbury, died at the age of fortytwoyears in Augusta. The other was James M. Hull, whose name heads thisreview. His place of nativity was Athens, Georgia, and the date of his birthwas February 3, 1859.The young widowed mother of James M. Hull in time contracted anothermarriage. Dr. DeSaussure Ford, a noted physician of Augusta, thus becameour subject's honored second father and his chief guide and inspiration. Doctor Ford's brilliant and nobly effective life closed in February, 1909, at Augusta. The daughter and two sons who were born to him arid his wife, DoctorHull's mother, were as follows: Frank Gualdo Ford, now Mrs. George L. Bakerof Columbia, South Carolina; Rucker Ford, a citizen of Morgantown, NorthCarolina; and DeSaussure Ford, of Augusta.James M. Hull was educated in Augusta public schools, in the Universityof Georgia, the Georgetown College, Washington, D. C., and Bethany College,West Virginia, being graduated from the latter institution with the class of1879. On receiving his degree of doctor of medicine, he immediately wentabroad to Europe, seeking the best medical training to be found in thesuperior institutions of Germany and Austria. In universities and hospitalsof Berlin and Vienna he therefore spent three years in further post-graduatestudy and research, his special line being that of eye, ear, nose and throat.In 1882 Doctor Hull returned to his native land and state. He openedoffices in Augusta, where he has ever since been engaged in the extensivepractice of his specialized medical work. Doctor Hull's service has been bothdirectly practical and valuably educational, for he has not only administeredthe affairs of his offices, but has also for thirty-two years been a member ofthe faculty of the Medical College of the University of Georgia, as professorof opthometry and opthalmology. To the sanitary and ethical needs of hiscity he has also given support and assistance. For twelve years he has servedas a member of the' board of health and has given an equal amount of timeto the responsibilities of police commissioner. His political convictions aredemocratic.A fine and creditable family have been reared by Doctor Hull and hisgracious wife. Mrs. Hull formerly Miss Mary B. Lyon and born in Mobile,Alabama was the daughter of a Confederate captain of note. The six children of the Lyon-Hull marriage were all born in Augusta and are as follows:Asbury Hull, M. D. (University of Georgia), a physician of Augusta; JamesM. Hull, A. B. (Sewanee University), LL. B. (University of Georgia), an attorney-at-lawin Augusta; Frank L. Hull, a large cotton merchant of Augusta;Mary Hull, Mrs. Earl Kammer, of Columbia, South Carolina; Lamar Hull,who is connected with the Oldsmobile Company of Philadelphia; and GeorgiaHull, now Mrs. R. Beverley Herbert of Columbia, South Carolina. Mrs. Hullwas a devoted member of the Episcopal Church, of which Doctor Hull and hisfamily are valued supporters.The sane and stimulating influence of Dr. James Hull has been exertedover a large radius of his section of the South. He is a member of the American Medical Association, of the Georgia State Medical Society and of theCounty Medical Society, besides having served as president of the CountySociety for two terms. His long and exceptionally successful experience makehis advice especially valuable to younger physicians, whose ambitions he iscapable of so wisely directing; while the multitudes of patients whom he has