| Show Dr Harvey C. C Hullinger U Ua is Utah's ah's Oldest Man and Pioneer Physician Dies Vern Vernal l Resident Years Old on December 2 2 Came Here in 1859 VERNAL Jan Harvey Coe believed to be the Olde oldest t man in Utah died at his home nome here early this morning after aCter a three-months three Illness caused b by chronic bronchitis He celebrated I his one hundred and first birthday on December 2 I The veteran physician teacher and soldier died at the home of ot his grandson Winfield Hullinger I The st story r of oC his life lICe reads like many other great western figures He was the oldest practising physician physician physician cian In Utah If not In the e States He was the oldest member of the Chur Church h of Jesus Christ Christof of f day Latter Saints and he Is another of or that army that answered the call of oC Abraham Lincoln In 1861 to hear the final tap taps BORN IN OHIO Dr Hullinger was born on December December Decem Decem- ber 2 2 1824 in Ohio the son of John and Alice Coe Hullinger HI His great grandfather Christian Hullinger was a r resident of Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Penn Penn- sylvania before the signing of the of Independence while his grandfather Daniel Hullinger fought in the Revolutionary army Dr Hullinger moved with his parents parents parents par par- to Illinois in 1833 and soon afterwards afterwards afterwards aft aft- he entered college studying study study- ing Latin and Greek and later medi medi- cine He studied medicine at Co lo- Co- Co lumbus 0 O for several years graduating graduating graduating grad grad- In 1852 and had been medicine continuously until shortly before his death It was In 1859 that he and ll ins his wife came to Utah as members of ofa ofa ofa a company of emigrants which crossed the plains In oxcarts On the theay ay way westward he met Brigham Young In Illinois and they 1 close friends KNEW MANY TASKS Dr Hullinger lived near the mouth of oC Mill Creek canyon upon the family's arrival in Utah He found that tha t medical practice would would not afford him sufficient means 10 tv provide for tor his family comfortably so he cut firewood in the canyons and sold It to his neighbors He also taught school for which he was paid a bushel and a half halt of oC wheat for each pupil Dr Hullinger sOld salt that he had gathered gather d from the shores of ot Great Salt lake He received 5 cents per pound A few years Later ater he went vent to southern Utah where he practiced d his hig profession receiving his compensation in farm products and clothing besides beside 75 cents given to him by an Indian for a pocketknife pocket- pocket knife The v veteran teran physician enli enlisted te In Captain Lot Smiths Smith's troon of cavalry cay cay- alry in 1862 He was a In the medical corps Upon his dl discharge discharge dis dis- charge from the service he practice and also farmed in the Big Cottonwood district He later as us recorder o of the newly created created cre cre- Big Cottonwood mining dis dis- He opened a hotel in the Silver Fork mining camp shortly afterwards HONORED BY INDIANS Dr Hullinger moved to Vernal in i. 1883 where he was a resident until his death He was honored by the Ute tribe after he had saved Vash Wash an Indian chief who was near death from front pneumonia Dr Hullinger was named chief medicine man He also often orten acted as peacemaker er cc between the whites and the In Indians Indians In- In as he spoke the Indian language language lan Ian guage fluently Dr Hullinger will be accorded fu fun military honors by bv the American legion which orga organization will vill conduct con duct the funeral Sunday He IsI is survived by two daughters twentythree twentythree twenty- twenty three grandchildren two eighty-two I great grandchildren arid and thirty great great grett I 1 Centenarian Dies I a vI v- v 1 I Dr Harvey Coe Hullinger Hullinger Hullinger Hul Hul- linger believed to be Utah's oldest odest man who died at Vernal I |
