When William Henry Houston Hull was born in 1842, in Readington, Hunterdon, New Jersey, United States, his father, James Hull, was 29 and his mother, Rachel Kershaw, was 34. He married Emma M. Sutphin in 1865, in New Jersey, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Branchburg Township, Somerset, New Jersey, United States in 1850 and Somerset, New Jersey, United States in 1860. He died in 1896, in New Jersey, United States, at the age of 54.