Person:Albert Bull (1)

The marriage of Miss Lydia A. Shaw to Albert Ebenezer Bull was solemnized at the bride's home November 19, 1846. Mr. Bull was born in Sheffield, Berkshire County, Mass., and reared on a farm, although his father, William Bull was a physician.

After completing his preliminary studies Mr. Bull studied surveying, which he followed more or less during his life. He did professional work in Florida and in Michigan, and while surveying in this State located a large tract of land that is known as Bull's Prairie. It is in Rutland Township, Barry County. At the time of his death Mr. Bull owned five hundred acres there and two hundred in Irving Township. When he left home his capital consisted of $500 and when he died he was one of the wealthiest citizens of Barry County. He was a merchant in Schoolcraft for many years and also carried on commercial life at White Pigeon. He moved onto his farm about 1857 and lived there until his death, March 5, 1865. He was then sixty-three years of age. He was a liberal donator to public enterprises and during the war contributed generously to free the township from the draft. He was a stanch Union man and as he was beyond the age of army service he did what he could to aid the cause in other ways.

From: Portrait and Biographical Album of Barry and Eaton Counties, Mich. Chicago: Chapman Bros. 1891 [Google Books] pp 633

Bull late in life fulfilled a long-felt desire to revisit his old home in the east. He died while visiting in Great Barrington.

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Find A Grave.

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2. ↑ Portrait and Biographical Album of Barry and Eaton Counties, Mich
   page 633, 1891.

   Chicago: Chapman Bros.