From History of Walworth County Wisconsin, Vol. II, by Albert Clayton 
Beckwith, Publ. 1912 - Page 1116-1117
 
GROVER KULL.  Among the successful farmers and stock men of Walworth county is 
Grover KULL, of Bloomfield township.  Having grown up on a farm and handled 
stock all his life, he is familiar with that class of husbandry.  It requires 
something more than carelessness to select the best animals in any herd and to 
rear them in such a manner that the best points will be brought out and 
emphasized.  As the best stock brings the best price, the best farmers make it 
an object to raise the higher grades, knowing that the market will be the 
better for a given effort and outlay.  These important points are borne in 
mind by the subject who has long been known as one of our most enterprising 
breeders of cattle, a man who, while yet young in years, has done much toward 
improving the breed of a particular brand of live stock in this section of the 
state and whose name has been carried to many remote localities through his 
fine stock, for he has been a close observer and a wide reader in order to 
adopt the best and most advanced methods in this, his chosen avenue of 
endeavor.
 
Mr. KULL was born in the north part of Bloomfield township, Walworth county, 
Wisconsin on March 24, 1885.  He is the son of Andrew and Anne (RIETBROCK) 
KULL, a well known and influential old family of this county, a complete 
sketch of whom will be found on anther page of this work, under the caption of 
Andrew KULL, to which the reader is respectfully directed for a full account 
of the family of the subject.
 
Grover KULL grew up on the home farm where he made himself useful in his 
boyhood days, and during the winter months he attended the district schools 
near his home, later the Lake Geneva high school.
 
When only about eighteen years of age he took up active farming for a 
livelihood and in order to get a start he farmed his father's place two years 
on the shares.  In 1907 he bought the farm where he now lives, a very 
productive and valuable place, consisting of one hundred and forty-three acres 
which he has brought up to a high standard of improvement and civilization and 
where, annually, abundant crops are repaying him for his outlay of labor.  
Ever since he was eighteen years old Mr. KULL has made a specialty of studying 
the breeding of Guernsey cattle, and he has succeeded in getting together one 
of the finest herds in this locality.  He has exhibited his fine stock at 
county and state fairs and they have been frequent prize winners everywhere 
they have competed and, owing to their superior quality, they find a very 
ready market when offered for sale.  His farm is known as the "Mariondale 
Farm."
 
Mr. KULL was married on October 4, 1905, to Marion Annie LAWRIE, daughter of 
Charles and Annie Robinson (VIPHAM) LAWRIE, an excellent and highly esteemed 
family of Walworth county, a sketch of whom appears elsewhere in this volume.
 
Mrs. KULL was born in Lake Geneva and there received a high school education 
and grew to womanhood.  One daughter, Helen Edna, has been born to the subject 
and wife.
 
Mr. and Mrs. KULL are members of the Congregational church.  They are 
deservedly popular in the community, being hospitable and advocates of 
wholesome living.
 
Mr. KULL's farm is amply supplied with up-to-date machinery, and he has large, 
substantial and convenient barns and outbuildings, and is one of the 
progressive farmers and stock raisers in this part of the county.  He is a 
member of the Walworth County Guernsey Breeders' Association and of the 
Western Guernsey Breeders' Association, taking a lively interest in both.
 
Submitted by Carol