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New York city. He was a prominent member of many of the principal medical societies of this country, including the New York academy of medicine, and the New York county medical society. He edited Manual of Diseases of the Skin, by Cazenave and Schedel (American edi- tion, (1846), and Eruptive Fevers, by Gregory (1851). For the last twenty years of his life he was attending physician of the New York hospital. He died in New York city, Jan. 4, 1872.

BULL, Henry, colonial governor, was born in "Wales in 1010, arrived in Boston June 4, 1635, and took up his residence in Roxbury. In May, 1637, he was made a freeman. He espoused the cause of Mrs. Hutchinson in the Antinomian disputes, and was sentenced to banislmient from the colony. Before this sentence had been passed he, with John Clark, William Coddington and others, sailed from Boston, and chose a new home on the Island of Aquidneck, in Narragan- sett Bay. In June, 1638, he was chosen a cor- poral of a newly formed militit) coujpany, and soon after was elected sergeant. He was also one of the seven " Elders," who, on April 28, 1639, agreed to propagate a plantation in the midst of the island, or elsewhere. This planta- tion became Newport. He was elected governor in May, 1685, serving one year. During the regime of Sir Edmund Andros, the general as- sembly convened, Feb. 26, 1690, for the first time in four years. Governors Walter Clark and Christopher Almy were sent for, but each refused to serve. Henry Bull, then more than eighty years old, was elected and served from Feb. 27 to May 7, 1690. declining re-election. He died in Rhode Island in 1694.

BULL, Melville, representative, was born at Newport, R. I., in 1854; prepared for college at Phillips academy, Exeter, was graduated at Harvard in l''^77, and then engaged in farming at Middletown, R. I. He was representative to the state legislature, 1883-'85; state senator. 1885-"92; lieutenant-governor, 1892-'94; and member of the Republican state central committee from 1885. He was a delegate to the Republican national convention in 1888, and while in the legislature took an active interest in establishing the naA-al re- serve militia of the state, and served on the board of management of the Rhode Island college of agriculture and mechanic arts, and experimental station from its establishment in 1888. In 1892 he was the Republican candidate for representa- tive from the first district of Rhode Island to the 53d Congress, and received a plurality of 640 votes, but not a majority, as was necessary for election in Rhode Island. In 1894 lie was elected to the 54th Congress by a plurality of 2.863 votes, and was re-elected to the 55lli, 56th and 57tli con- gre.sses, 1895-1903.

BULL, Ole Bornemann, violinist, was born in Bergen, Norway, Feb. 5, 1810. Both of his imrents were musical, and he had among his many relatives a number of musicians and poets. From his earliest infancy he had an ear for nature's music — the songs of the flowers and trees, the winds, rivers, lakes and mountains — and he always thovight of this music as some- thing that might be reproduced. At home-concerts given at his father's house he became familiar with the best music, and absorbed all un- consciously the rules of the musician's art. Without any ^y' ^^

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the violin at five years of age, at seven took his place in a quartette of trained musicians, and at nine played first violin in a theatre orchestra. He was sent to school, as it was his father's intention to fit him for the ministry. In 1828 he went to Christiania to take his en- trance examinations at the university. The afternoon and evening preceding examination day were spent in playing at a concert and at a private musical, and as a result he failed to pass his examinations. His playing, however, secured for him the position of director of the " Phil- harmonic and Dramatic Societies " of the town, and he at once entered upon the very congenial duties of his new office, spending his leisure in musical studies. In 1830 he returned to Bergen, where, by three concerts, he earned five hun- dred dollars, with which he went to Paris to gratify his long-clierislied desire of hearing DeBeriot. Balliot and Berlioz. At Paris he was robbed of his money, and through the assist- ance of Vidocq, the famous detective, he won eight hundred francs in a gambling establish- ment. This money was soon spent, and he was in need and despair, when he met Madame Villeminot, an elderly lady, whose grand- daughter he afterwards married, who took him into her home and nursed him through an attack of brain fever. Before he had fully recovered from this illness his admirers in Chris- tiania, hearing of his misfortunes, sent him three thousand francs. His wonderful playing at a soirde, given by the Duke of Riario, led to many concert engagements, which brought him both fame and money. He heard Paganini, though it was .several j-ears afterward that his