1. Joseph Maull was an American physician and politician from Lewes, in Sussex County, Delaware.
11 Facts About Joseph Maull
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Joseph Maull was a veteran of the War of 1812, and a member of the Federalist Party, then later the Whig Party, who served in the Delaware General Assembly and as Governor of Delaware.
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Joseph Maull's father was a shipwright who ran arms from the West Indies during the American Revolution.
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Joseph Maull died, so the story goes, when a ship's mast fell on him.
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Joseph Maull, himself, served in the 3rd Brigade of Delaware Militia, defending Lewes during the War of 1812.
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Joseph Maull studied medicine under Dr John Wolfe of Lewes and spent the rest of his life as a practicing physician from his home in Milton, Delaware.
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Joseph Maull married Penelope Shields in 1802 and they had two children, Susan and George.
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Joseph Maull was the seventh Governor of Delaware to die in office.
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Joseph Maull began his career as a Federalist, and joined the Whig Party with the party realignment of the 1830s.
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Joseph Maull died at Lewes and is buried there at the St Peter's Episcopal Churchyard.
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The Joseph Maull House was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1970, with a boundary increase in 1978.