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Patrick Purdy Hull

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Patrick Purdy Hull

Birth
Ontario County, New York, USA
Death
21 May 1858 (aged 33)
Marysville, Yuba County, California, USA
Burial
Mansfield, Richland County, Ohio, USA Add to Map
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The monument in this cemetery is a cenotaph, as he is actually buried at the Marysville City Cemetery in Marysville, California.

HULL--Patrick P. HULL, formerly husband of Lola Montez, died in Marysville a few days since. He was one of the proprietors of the Commercial Advertiser (newspaper) of San Francisco, in 1853, at which time he married her."

Source: Brooklyn Eagle, June 28, 1858.

Hull, P. P., Marysville, Cal., -, age. 34, formerly a lawyer of Mansfield, O., but at the time of his death one of the proprietors and editors of the San Francisco Town Talk. He was a printer, and had been connected with the newspaper business in San Francisco almost all the time since his arrival in the state, in 1850. He served his time in Mansfield, O., where his widowed mother still resides, and afterwards read law with his uncle, James Purdy, of Mansfield. He was born in that city in 1824. In his native state he was respected and loved by a large circle of friends; and in California, especially among his typographical and editorial brethren, he was eminently popular.

[Source: "Annual Obituary Notices of Eminent Persons who have died in the United States for 1858" by Hon. Nathan Crosby; John P. Jewett and Co., pub. 1859.]
The monument in this cemetery is a cenotaph, as he is actually buried at the Marysville City Cemetery in Marysville, California.

HULL--Patrick P. HULL, formerly husband of Lola Montez, died in Marysville a few days since. He was one of the proprietors of the Commercial Advertiser (newspaper) of San Francisco, in 1853, at which time he married her."

Source: Brooklyn Eagle, June 28, 1858.

Hull, P. P., Marysville, Cal., -, age. 34, formerly a lawyer of Mansfield, O., but at the time of his death one of the proprietors and editors of the San Francisco Town Talk. He was a printer, and had been connected with the newspaper business in San Francisco almost all the time since his arrival in the state, in 1850. He served his time in Mansfield, O., where his widowed mother still resides, and afterwards read law with his uncle, James Purdy, of Mansfield. He was born in that city in 1824. In his native state he was respected and loved by a large circle of friends; and in California, especially among his typographical and editorial brethren, he was eminently popular.

[Source: "Annual Obituary Notices of Eminent Persons who have died in the United States for 1858" by Hon. Nathan Crosby; John P. Jewett and Co., pub. 1859.]

Inscription

The inscription on this stone may be a cenotaph to this person, as the inscription reads "died in Marysville, CA.



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