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BULL, William Tlllinghast, surgeon, was born at Newport, R. I., May 18, 1849, son of Henry Buli, seventh in descent from Henry Bull, gover- nor of Rhode Island, a friend of and co-settler with Roger Williams in the purchase of •' Aquid- neck." He was graduated at Harvard in 1869, and at the College of physicians and surgeons, New York in 1872. He studied also with Dr. Sands ; went by merit into Bellevue hospital for a year or more, and then to Europe for two years' study. In 1875 he began practice in New York city. For two years he was in charge of the New York dispensary, and from 1877 to 1888, of the Chambers street hospital. He was for four years attending surgeon, and then consult- ing surgeon of St. Luke's hospital. By a success- ftd laparotomy he helped to revolutionize the treatment of gunshot wounds of the abdomen, which were formei'ly fatal in most ca.ses. As consulting surgeon to the Manhattan hospital ; to the Orthopaedic hospital and dispensaiy ; surgeon- in-charge of the hospital for ruptured and crippled, and professor of sui'gery in the medical depart- ment of Columbia college, he won a wide reputa- tion for skill and readiness in emergency.

BULLARD, Asa, clergyman, was born at Northbridge, Mass., Marcli 26, 1804, son of Dr. Arte- mas and Lucy (White) Bullard. He was gradu- ated from Amherst college in 1828, and from the theological seminary at Andover in 1831. He was ordained to the Congregational ministry in 1832, and was made secretary of the Massachusetts Sabbath school society in 1834. This office he held for more than forty years, when he was made honorary secretary. Amherst made him A.M. in 1853. He edited the Sabbath School Visitor, 1834- '44, and in 1844-'88 The Well-Spring. He pub- lished Sunnybank Stories (1863) : Children's Album of Pictures and Stories (1867) ; Chil- dren's Book for Sabbath Hours (1875) : Fifty Years with tlie Sabbath Schools (1876). and In- cidents in a Busy Life : An Autobiography (1888). He died at Suitiiybank, Cambridgeport, Mass., April 5, 1888.

BULLARD, Henry Adams, jurist, was born in Groton, Mass., Sept. 9, 1781. He was gradu- ated at Harvard in 1807, studied for the bar in Boston and Philadelphia, and while in the latter -city met General Toledo who was organizing an expedition to revolutionize New Mexico. Bul- lard's knowledge of the Spanish langiiage secured for him the position of secretarj' and aide to General Toledo, and as such he accompanied the expedition. After its disastrous failure, he established himself in the profession of law at Nachitoches, La. In 1822 he was appointed judge of the district court of I^ouisiana, in 1830 was elected a representative to the 22d Congress, and was re-elected in 1833 to the 23d Congress.

In 1834 he was made judge of the supreme court of Louisiana, an office which he held until 1846, with an interregnum in 1839, when he served as secretary of state for Louisiana. In 1847 he was chosen professor of civil law in the law school of Louisiana. He was elected a representative to the 31st Congress in 1850 to fill an unexpired term, and served one session. He died in New Orleans, La., April 17, 1851.

BULLIONS, Peter, clergyman, was born at Moss Side, Scotland, in December, 1791. When he was nineteen years old he began a three years' course at the Universitj^ of Edinburgh, and after studying theology he came to America in 1817, and settled in Argyle, N. Y., where for six years he was pastor of a Presbyterian church. From 1824 to 1848 he taught languages in the Albany academy, and served from 1832 to the time of his death as a pastor of the United Pres- byterian congregation at Troy, N. Y. He publislied Life of Alexander Bullions ; Princi- 2)les of English. Grammar (1834) ; Principles of Greek Grammar (1840) ; Analytical and Practical English Grammar (1850) ; P^-incijiles of Latin Grammar (1853) ; Latin Exercises (1855), and Latin and English Dictionary (1862). He died at Troy, N. Y., Feb. 13, 1864.

BULLITT, Alexander Scott, statesman, was born in Prince William county, Va., in 1761. In 1784 he emigrated to Kentucky, then a part of Virginia, and settled in what became Shelby county; but owing to the annoyances by the Indians, he sought a safer home, which he found in Jefferson county. In 1792 he was elected delegate to the convention which met in Danville to frame the constitution of Kentucky. In 1799 he was president of the state senate. The year following he was made lieutenant-governor of the state and served in pviblic office until 1808. He died April 13, 1816.

BULLITT, John Christian, lawyer, was born in Jefferson count}', Ky., Feb. 10, 1824; son of William C. and Mildred Bullitt, of the old Ken- tucky family to which Thomas and Alex. S. Bullitt belonged. He was educated at Centre college, Ky., where he was graduated in 1842. He then studied law, and settled in Louisville, where he built up a large practice. He %\ent to Philadelphia in 1849 to take cliarge of such assets of the broken Scliuylkill bank as belonged to the bank of Kentucky. He was a Whig in politics, and took an active part in the discussions of the political questions of the day. His opinion on the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus under the constitution, in answer to Horace Binnej', was acknowledged to be a masterpiece of logic. He extricated the Philadelphia & Reading railroad company from its legal complications at the time