Crawford-Coles County IL Archives Biographies.....Bull, Edwin F. 1817 - 
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Author: William Henry Perrin (1883)

  EDWIN F. BULL, merchant, Robinson. The subject of this sketch was born in
1817, in Lexington, Ky., the metropolis of the world-renowned Blue Grass Region,
where he lived until he was eighteen years of age, He then entered the Texan
war, serving the Texan Government about two years, after which he went on board
a vessel as assistant supercargo. He followed the sea some six years, and then
went to Iowa and engaged in the mercantile business at Wapello, where he
remained until 1863, when he sold out and came to Charleston, Ill., and bought a
farm in Coles County, which he operated several years. He sold his farm and
engaged in the boot and shoe business, which he afterward sold and went to
coopering, but was burnt out in 1873; he then came to Robinson and bought out
Francis Lucas' dry goods, boots, shoes, etc., which business he is still engaged
in, with an extensive trade, selling from $15,000 to $20,000 worth of goods
annually. Mr. Bull was married, in 1846, to Miss Nancy McKenny, and has four
children living, viz.: Emma, Theodore, John and James. He is a member of the
Masonic fraternity.

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HISTORY OF CRAWFORD AND CLARK COUNTIES, ILLINOIS.
EDITED BY WILLIAM HENRY PERRIN.

ILLUSTRATED

CHICAGO: O. L. BASKIN & CO., HISTORICAL PUBLISHERS,
LAKESIDE BUILDING.
1883.


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