Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-07-21
HEIR 70 A BIG ESTATE
Charles II. Hull, OF This City, a
Legatee to the Harlem Flats
Estates.
Returns From Pottsville. Pa.
Where He Attended Meeting
OF Heirs.
Is Honored Guest on Board the
Constitution, His Grandfath.
er's Frigate.

Marshalltown can lay claim to an
heir to vast New York and Holland es-
tates in the person of Mr.. Charles III
| Hull. Junior member of the firm OF Ill
Willard, Son & Co, and president of the
school board of the city. Mr.. Hull is
one of the direct descendants OF the
original owners of the celebrated Har-
Hem flats estate, which has been under
Mitigation for some time The property
in York is worth $50. 100000. and With
it, if the title is properly proved up
will fall a fortune of S110,000,000 in
Holland.
/ Mr.. Hull arrived home Sunday eve
ming from Pottsvile. Pa, where. on the
| 10th inst, he attended meeting OF the
| heirs in America. The convention, for
+ the meeting assumed those proportions,
resulted in the placing of the heirs
claims into the hands of competent at
torneys, who will carry the matter thru
the courts until either settlement is
| is no possibility of ever establishing the
claim.
| While the claims on the property
have been in litigation a quarter OF u
century, the heirs in America have new
er been able to prove their lineal rights.
This has been largely due. it is thought.
to the fact that no proper organization
has been maintained. 1t is now consd-
cred that the necessary documents can
be furnished within reasonable length
of time and that the prosecution OF the
claims will prove of benefit.
The New York property in dispute is
land that was coded to the knicker-
booker governors by the King of Hol-
land when old Peter Stuyvesant and his
party founded New Amsterdam. The
founder of the Hull family in this
country was one of these to whom the
grant was made and, by the way, a
relative of the Dutch king himself. Mr..
lie. H. Hull is direct descendant CT the
founder of the family and will not have
any trouble in proving his own an
cestry.
After concluding his business connec-
ted with the estate Mr.. Hull visited
Philadelphia and other Pennsylvania
points, and from there went to New
York and Atlantic City. From New
York he Went to Boston, and thence
up the coast to Portland, Me. He spent
Il short time in the White mountains
and enjoyed a few days bass fishing at
Ragglin Lake. He returned via Mon
teral and Chicago.
One of the most enjoyable of Mr.
Hull's visits While in the east was that
to the Charlestown navy yards while at
Boston. The object of his trip to the
navy yards is explained in detail in the
Boston Herald, of Thursday, as fol-
lows:
The Charleston navy yard received
yesterday an interested and interest
ing visitor in the person of Charles II.
Hull, grandson on the paternal side of
Commodore Isaac Hull, who was in
command of the United States frigate
Constitution in her memorable sea fight
with the Guerrierre during the war of
1872, and of course, the lineal descend-
ant of Gen. Hull, who commanded the
military forces in the same war against
the British.
Mr.. Hull is a citizen of Marshall-
town, and made this, his first trip
to the Atlantic coast, on purpose to
walk the deck which his illustrious
grandsire trod in one of the most fa-
NOUS naval engagements in the history
of the nation. Mr.. Hull made known
his identity to the navy yards officials,
spection of old Ironsides' was placed
at his disposal.
He was very much impressed with
the vessel which holds for him so many
personal as We'll as histori-
cal, and said that he hardly knew
whether to breathe when he found HIM
self on the same deck on which the fa
nous commodore used to walk.
MIR. Hull also visited other points
of interest about the yards, including
the modern cruiser Newark. When he
left he was given a relic of the Consti-
tuition which he declares is priceless in
value to him and which he proposes
to preserve as a family heirloom.
"Mr. Hull is the son of the late Sam
uel Hull, the third son of Commodore
Isaac Hull, who had eleven children.
Samuel Hull was for years prominent
county, PENNSYLVANIA. In 1854 he moved
With his family to West Union, iowa,
and later to Preston. Fillmore county,
Minnesota, which town he represented
in the Minnesota legislature for three
wears. In 1860 he took his family to
Marshaltown. whore the son. Charles
III. Hull, is a member if the firm of H.
Willard, Son and Co, buyers OF hides,
tallow and wool.
Mr.. Hull has been for three years a
member of the Marshalltown school
board, of which he is this year presi-
dent. He married daughter OF the
senior member of the firm and is the
father of five lusty boys, ranging in age
from is to years, all of whom Worship
the record of their grandfather and
burn with love for their country. ON
his way east MIR. Hull visited the grave
of the commodore in the North Murray
Hill cemetery, Philadelphia
MOVES WITHOUT ACCIDENT.
Central Takes the Circus Trains to