Yolo-Sacramento-Yuba County CA Archives Biographies.....Bullard, W. G. 1831 - 
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Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1891)

W. G. BULLARD, merchant and Postmaster at Davisville, dates his birth June 20,
1831, in Monroe County, New York. His parents, Benjamin and Eleanor (Weaver)
Bullard, were natives respectively of Vermont and New York. The father, a
shoemaker by trade, but chiefly a farmer by occupation through life, moved in
1836 to Oakland County, Michigan, settling near Walled Lake, upon land which he
purchased there. In 1849 he sold out and moved to Fredonia, Calhoun County, same
State, where he remained until 1853, and then he came to California with his
family, overland, being five months and two days on the route, ending at
Sacramento. He was interested in a hotel there until 1870 and then he was a
resident of Davisville until he died, in December, 1884, at the age of
seventy-nine years. In his family were three sons and five daughters.

  The subject of this sketch was brought up on a farm and was with his parents
when they came to California. The first work which he did for his own interest
was at mining, principally at Timbuctoo, above Marysville, and in this
busisiness [sic] he continued about nine years, in company with a brother and a
brother-in-law. He closed his mining experience with $2,200, to be divided
between the three. Then for about four years he was in the transfer business in
Sacramento; next he was book-keeper for a canal company and a general mercantile
house at Michigan Bar for three years; and then, in 1870 he removed to
Davisville and was bookkeeper for Drisback & Company until that firm failed;
then he started out for himself in the grain and mercantile business, but, not
having the courage to deny credit, he failed in this enterprise. His general
character and uprightness was too well known for him to be long waiting for an
opportunity, and in 1886 he was appointed Postmaster at Davisville, in which
position he has served the people to the present time. In connection with the
office, he runs a very neat store of groceries and general merchandise. He is a
member of Dixon Chapter and Woodland Commandery of the Masonic order.

  Mr. Bullard was married October 20, 1868, to Mary A. T. Farrell, a native of
Ireland, and they have two daughters and three sons, whose names are Mary E.,
Walter W., Edward F., William G. and Nettie B.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from

Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California.

Illustrated, Containing a History of this Important Section of the Pacific Coast
from the Earliest Period of its Occupancy to the Present Time, together with
Glimpses of its Prospective Future; Full-Page Steel Portraits of its most
Eminent Men, and Biographical Mention of many of its Pioneers and also of
Prominent Citizens of To-day.

"A people that takes no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will
never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote
descendents." – Macauley.

CHICAGO
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1891.


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