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dent and trustee Methodist General Biblical Institute at Concord, N. H. ; trustee and a member of the executive committee Howard University, Washington ; and trustee and member of the joint committee from several annual conferences, Methodist Episcopal church, on locating a Theological school, which met in Boston in March, 1863 (Bishop O. C. Baker in the chair and Mr. Tullock secretary) a movement which resulted in the establish- ment of the Boston University ; a member of the corporation Boston Theo- logical Institute, 1S69 ; honorary member of the New Hampshire Historical Society, 1859 ; and corresponding member of the New England Methodist Historical Society, 1881.

As a Mason, Mr. Tullock received his Masonic degrees in Portsmouth. He was initiated in St. John's Lodge No. i, May 17, 1841 ; exalted in Washing- ton Chapter No. 3, August 16, 1841 ; knighted in Dewitt Clinton Command- ry, September 18, 1848, and has received the degrees of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite including the 32° ; has served as a representative to the Grand Lodge of New Hampshire, and as Grand Lecturer, and held many other offices both in the grand and local bodies, and is now a charter member of the DeMolay Mounted Commandry No. 4, Mithras Lodge of Perfection, Evangelist Chapter, Robert DeBruce Council, and Albert Pike Consistory of Washington, and Treasurer of the Masonic Veteran Association of the District of Columbia, organized August 20, 1879, and a member of King Soloman's Lodge No. 2, Washington, of Free and Accepted Architects.

A member of the Methodist Episcopal church since 1841, Mr. Tullock has been a trustee, steward, and treasurer of the State street Methodist Episcopal church of Portsmouth, and in the Metropolitan Methodist Episcopal church of Washington, has been scholar, teacher, Hbrarian, secretary and superin- tendent of Sunday schools. He was a lay delegate to New Hampshire and Baltimore Conferences. District steward, Dover, N. H., and Washington, D. C, districts ; delegate at large to the New England Methodist Convention, June 5, 1 866 ; vice-president M. E. Historical and M. E. Education Societies of the M. E. church ; member of the centenary committee of the same church for the United States in 1866 ; also a member of the general com- mittee on the Centennial of American Methodism ; director of Conference missionary, tract and preachers aid Societies, and of the Hedding Camp-Meet- ing Association, of which he was an original member ; also a director in the Howard Benevolent, Bible, City Missionary and Temperance Societies of Ports- mouth, and of the New England and St. Andrew's Societies of Washington city, and actively interested in other literary, social, benevolent, and religious institutions and societies ; and he has had a very extensive acquaintance with the leading ministers and members of the Methodist Episcopal church, having visited several annual and six general conferences, including the conference of 1844, in New York city, when the church divided on the question of slavery.

In reply to an inquiry Mr. Tullock said : —

" 1 never felt happier or more independent than v>'hen in mercantile pursuits, and have often regretted that 1 relinquished business to accept a public office. 1 some- times think I should have resigned my place in jjolitical organizations, and accepted one of the positions tendered to me ; but I was conscientious and believed it to be an imperative duty to exert mj'self to the utmost in preserving the integrity and in promoting the success of the Kepublicun party, and thereby aid the great cause of liberty and union, good government and the rights of man."

Had the same oneness of purpose and intense earnestness, which were exhibited in his zeal for the restoration of the American Union, and the success of the Republican party in its vigorous, stubborn battle against secession and

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