| − | Hull was born in Pascagoula in Jackson County in southern [[Mississippi]], the son of Edgar Hull, Sr., and the former Alice Christine Rourke. He graduated from Pascagoula High School and studied pre-medicine in the early 1920s at [[Louisiana State University]] in [[Baton Rouge]]. In between those years, he was a temporary schoolteacher at Bayou Cassotte in Jackson County, Mississippi. From 1923 to 1927, Hull attended the [[Tulane University]] School of Medicine in [[New Orleans]], from which he received his medical credentials. Hull then interned at the 108-bed Highland Sanitarium in Shreveport]] in northwestern Louisiana. He stayed there for only six months before launching a private practice from 1929 to 1931 in rural Pleasant Hill in Sabine Parish in western Louisiana.<ref name=lahist/> | + | Hull was born in Pascagoula in Jackson County in southern [[Mississippi]], the son of Edgar Hull, Sr., and the former Alice Christine Rourke. He graduated from Pascagoula High School and studied pre-medicine in the early 1920s at [[Louisiana State University]] in [[Baton Rouge]]. In between those years, he was a temporary schoolteacher at Bayou Cassotte in Jackson County, Mississippi. From 1923 to 1927, Hull attended the [[Tulane University]] School of Medicine in [[New Orleans]], from which he received his medical credentials. Hull then interned at the 108-bed Highland Sanitarium in Shreveport]] in northwestern Louisiana. He stayed there for only six months before launching a private practice from 1929 to 1931 in rural Pleasant Hill in Sabine Parish in western Louisiana.<ref name=lahist/> |
| − | In 1930, Hull married the former Louise Parham of Shreveport, Louisiana. She died seven years later.<ref name=lahist/> | + | In 1930, Hull married the former Louise Parham (1907-1937), a native of Fannin County, [[Texas]]. She is interred in her native Shreveport at Forest Park East Cemetery |