J. Dan Hull, Jr.

John Daniel Hull, II, 1900 – 1987. My grandfather. I spent his last 10 or so Thanksgivings with him in Missouri with just him and my grandmother Alene, who died in 1998 at 101. J. Dan had quiet energy, smarts, poise and, simply put, elegance. Author, educator, Truman-Eisenhower-JFK administration mainstay. Cosmos Club. Ozark boy who wanted to go to Yale. Sixth-generation German-American. In 1750, the Holl family moved from the Palatine to Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and soon after to Middlebrook, Virginia. In 1858, his branch left Middlebrook to what is now Mountain Grove, Missouri. Photo: John Daniel Hull, II, 1933, New Haven, Connecticut