Delta County CO Archives Biographies.....Bull, Harry W. January 10, 1865 - ?
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Author: Progressive Men of Western Colorado

     Actively engaged in raising fruit, general ranching and feeding cattle on

contract, Harry W. Bull, of the Western slope in this state, living four miles

northwest of Eckert, Delta county, finds his time and energies fully occupied in

useful labors and profitably rewarded for the outlay. He is an enterprising man,

wide-awake to his opportunities and diligent in making good use of them at all

times.  Like many another of the progressive men who have helped to make

Colorado great and wealthy, he is a native of the far East in this country,

having been born in the state of New York, in Orange county, on January 10,

1865.  His parents, Sidney and Ruth (Cooley) Bull, were born in New York and New

Jersey, respectively, and in 1869 moved to Missouri, where they are now living.

 The father was a farmer there until recently, when he retired from active

pursuits and took up his residence in the town of Cameron.  Six of their seven

children are living, five of them in Colorado.  Their son, who is the theme of

this article, left home in the spring of 1886, soon after reaching the age of

twenty-one years, and coming direct to this state, located in Delta county on a

ranch of one hundred and sixty acres adjoining the one he now owns and occupies,

which he took up as a pre-emption claim and afterward sold.  His present ranch

was purchased in January, 1898, and required his immediate and vigorous

attention to make it habitable and productive.  He built a comfortable dwelling

on it and began at once to devote his energies to its cultivation and

development.  Fifteen acres of the tract are in fruit, and the orchards are kept

up by repeated plantings, and one hundred and twenty acres are devoted to

growing alfalfa, which is his principal crop as the orchard is not yet in full

bearing order.  In 1903 his harvest was eight hundred tons of good hay, on which

he realized an average of five dollars a ton by feeding it to cattle under

contract. He also sold three hundred boxes of peaches and one hundred boxes of

apples.  In the stock industry he confines himself to raising a number of horses

each year.  On June 8, 1898, he was married to Miss Bertha Atwood, a native of

Buchanan county, Missouri, whose father, Charles Atwood, was born in

Massachusetts in 1847, and her mother, whose maiden name was Elizabeth Marshall,

in Canada in 1853.  The father was a molder in his earlier manhood and later

turned his attention to merchandising.  Both parents are living in Missouri,

whither they moved in 1868.  All of their five children are living, but only

one, Mrs. Bull, is a resident of Colorado.  She and her husband have [a] son,

Ernest A., who was born in 1899.  The father is a Knight of Pythias and a

Woodman of the World.  He supports the Republican party in political matters,

and both he and his wife belong to the Presbyterian church.

Additional Comments:
From Progressive Men of Western Colorado.  Chicago:  A.W. Bowen & Co., 1905

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