20 Nov. 1816–28 Apr. 1870
John Graham Tull, physician and surgeon, the son of Isaac and Eliza Graham Tull, was born in Lenoir County, near Kinston. He was graduated from The University of North Carolina in 1836 and from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in 1839. Dr. Tull then spent several years studying in Paris hospitals before establishing a practice in New Bern. He participated in the reorganization of the Medical Society of North Carolina in 1849 and later served on the first State Board of Medical Examiners, which was appointed in 1859. Tull continued his successful practice in New Bern until the town was captured by Federal troops in 1862. Subsequently he moved to Philadelphia, where, in 1864, he became an acting assistant surgeon in the U.S. Army, serving until the military hospital closed in 1865. Tull continued practicing medicine in Philadelphia, until his death in 1870. Before he died, Tull, and his wife Julia, also sold some of their property in North Carolina and may have traveled between states during this time. A May 5, 1869 indenture states that he sold some of his New Bern property to a David Keaton for three thousand dollars. The transaction was witnessed by Samuel L. Taylor and David M. Laughlin.
Tull died on April 28, 1870, and is buried in Woodlands Cemetery in Philadelphia.
On 9 Mar. 1845 Tull married Julia West Hollister, and they had sixteen children, twelve boys and four girls. Among his surviving children were John Tull, who became a pharmacist in Waynesville, and Dr. Montrose Graham Tull, who practiced in Philadelphia.