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Alexander Blue Hull, Jr., prominent real
estate and industrial developer, of Tampa, Florida, is a native of Savannah,
Georgia, a member of the well-known Hull family, who have been leading citizens
of Georgia for many years. He was born March 4, 1882.
Mr. Hull attended the
public schools at Savannah, completing the high school course. He was ambitious
for business success and began work, on his own resources, shortly after
completing school.
For two years Mr. Hull engaged in merchandise and brokerage
business at Mobile, Alabama. He was attracted to Florida, which was at that time
experiencing its first active development, and removed to that State in 1901,
locating first at Mulberry.
The section around Mulberry was in the midst of a
lively and prosperous business boom, due to the operations of the big phosphate
mining companies. Mr. Hull organized the Mulberry Electric Company and the Mine
and Mill Supply Company, being president of the first company and vice-president
of the Second. These concerns did a thriving business with the phosphate people
and their employees.
Mr. Hull later located in Tampa, Florida, where he has
since resided. In Tampa, he has engaged in the general real estate business and
has made some of the largest transactions on record in Florida.
He developed
the first and largest high-grade phosphate rock found in Hillsborough county,
which developed to be one of the largest in this section, selling this property
to the American Agricultural Chemical Company for several hundred thousand
dollars. Later, he sold another tract of land to the same company for a somewhat
smaller sum.
Mr. Hull, soon after locating in Tampa, saw the possibilities of
creating popular resorts along the Gulf beaches in Pinellas county. The building
of paved roads from Tampa and other towns to the West Coast made possible the
development of this beach property, and Mr. Hull was one of the first to take
advantage of the opportunities. He improved and put upon the market attractive
Gulf-front lots at Haven Beach and organized the Florida Beach Development
Company, of which he is president. This company has been largely responsible for
the building of attractive cottages, hotels and pavilions along the Gulf keys
from Clearwater to Indian Rocks and thousands of people motor to these resorts
each week, while many have their own summer homes at the seaside.
Mr. Hull is a
director of the State Bank of Lakeland, Florida, and a member of the firms of
Devane & Hull Company, and Hull & Hull, of that city.
He is a member of the
Tampa Yacht Club, Country Club, the Tampa Board of Trade, and an Elk.
Mr. Hull
married, March 28, 1916, Miss Ruth Louise Branham, of Brunswick,
Georgia.

~Men of the South: A Work for the Newspaper Reference Library;
Daniel Decatur Moore; Southern Biographical Association,
1922.



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Son of Alexander Blue Hull (b. 1857, d.
1927), and his first wife Maria Hardee (b. 1859, d.
1882).


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