Charles H. Hults
Successful and enterprising in his agricultural activities, Charles H. Huts takes a leading place among the younger farming men of Monroe Township, where he has passed his life thus far and where he was born December 28, 1873. He is a son of James F. and Mary J. (Smith) Hults, and concerning the parents more detailed mention is to be found on others pages of this historical and biographical work.
Charles H. Hults was educated in the district schools and lived at home with his parents until he was nineteen years old. Thereafter he did farm work for hire for some six years, and when he married he rented a place and lived upon it for six more years. He bought his present place in 1904. It is eighty-two and a half acres in extent, and he paid a price of sixty-five dollars an acre for the place, going in debt for more than $2,000, which he was soon able to clear away, and in 1909 he bought an additional twenty acres at sixty dollars an acre. His land is estimated at one hundred and twenty-five dollars an acre, and is in fine shape, considering from every standpoint. In 1912 the place yielded eight hundred bushels of corn, four hundred bushels of oats, and he cut fifteen tons of fine hay. His annual sale of hogs numbers about eighty. The family residence caps an eminence overlooking the place, and a large lawn with threes and shrubbery in abundance lend additional charm to an already attractive place.
In 1898 Mr. Hults was married to Ida, the daughter of Milton Marshall, of Upland, and they have two children, Letha and Pearl. Mr. Hults is a Democrat in his politics, but not especially active.
Centennial History of Grant County Indiana 1812-1912. The Lewis Publishing Co., 1914.