CLASS OF 1890

Galen Downer Hull died of typhoid fever in Asheville, N. C., August 12. He was born in Charlestown, N. H., November 16, 1865, being the son of Abram D. and Augusta M. (Baldwin) Hull. He fitted for college in the high school of his native town under A. B. Crawford '76, at the New Hampshire College, then located at Hanover, and under private instructors. In College he took the Latin-Scientific course. He remained at the College for a year after graduation as assistant in biology, then spent a year at Harvard in scientific study. In 1897 he was one of four experts who conducted an expedition to the Galapagos Islands to collect specimens for the Rothschild Art Museum of London, spending eight months in the islands. He afterwards became interested in talc mining in North Carolina, and in the manufacture of articles made from this mineral. He spent the years 1905 and '6 in travel, visiting California, Colorado, and other parts of the West, and is reported to have had important business interests in California. He was married June 16, 1902, to Nellie Robinson, daughter of Phineas P. Whitehouse of South Hampton, N. H., who survives him, without children.

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