Changes

==Background==

==Background==

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 (1907-1937), a native of Fannin County, [[Texas]], and the daughter of Ortha James and Minnie Alice Craig Parham of Shreveport. She died at the age of thirty from falling down the steps at her New Orleans home while she was entertaining guests. She is interred at Forest Park East Cemetery​ in Shreveport.​<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/13735781/louise-hull|title=Louise Parham Hull|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=October 26, 2019}}</ref>

In 1930, Hull married the former Louise Parham (1907-1937), a native of Fannin County, [[Texas]], and the daughter of Ortha James and Minnie Alice Craig Parham of Shreveport. She died at the age of thirty from falling down the steps at her New Orleans home while she was entertaining guests. She is interred at Forest Park East Cemetery​ in Shreveport.​<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/13735781/louise-hull|title=Louise Parham Hull|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=October 26, 2019}}</ref>