Lapeer County MI Archives Biographies.....Bullock, Benoni 1830 - 1864
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Author: Chapman Bros. (1892)

BENONI BULLOCK. The vast amount of labor that has been expended in developing
this State and especially that portion which we have now under consideration—
Lapeer County—to its present beautiful condition, cannot well be realized, much
less described, by one who has not been an actual participant in the work. The
work has been vast and the workers are entitled to the esteem and honor of those
who are enjoying the advantages which have been the natural and inevitable
result. The biographical writer is always pleased to record the history of such
an one, even though only a simple statement of fact can be given. He whose name
heads this sketch, and whose farm was located on sections 26 and 27, Elba
Township, Lapeer County, from 1850 to the time of his death in 1864, was one of
the most energetic and ambitious workers in this portion of the State. During
that time he developed a farm of one hundred and fifty-five acres of land and
put on it all the buildings which now there stand, with the exception of a very
few changes made by his son, Carlos A.

  Mr. Bullock was born in Rensselaer County, N. Y., July 30, 1830, and his
parents were Benoni and Leah Bullock. They died while he was yet a child. He
made his home with his brother James, and came with him to Lapeer County, Mich.,
in 1839. He reached the years of maturity in this county and received but a
meagre education in the common schools and grew up with the greatest knowledge
of the best way in which to do hard work.

  Our subject was married, in 1850, to Miss Lorinda, daughter of Chauncy Merwin,
one of the county's pioneers. From this union came two sons—Dellman and Carlos
A. The former died early in life, at the age of twenty-one years, while the
second is a resident on the old homestead. He was born in 1855, and was reared
on his father's farm and educated in the common schools of the county. The lady
to whom the comforts and happiness of the domestic life of Carlos Bullock are
due, became his wife December 31, 1874. She was at the time a resident of Hadley
and by name Nellie E. Little. Her parents, Albert S. and Elizabeth (Drumendike)
Little, were also natives of the Empire State. Mr. and Mrs. Bullock have been
blessed by the advent into the family of six children, five of whom are still
living: Benoni A., Motier C., Dillman C., Norton and Martha L. The son is, like
his father, a public-spirited farmer and is a thorough-going young man. He and
his wife, with a part of their children, are members of the Methodist Episcopal
Church. He has added to the farm left by his father until it now comprises two
hundred and fifty-three acres. The family holds a high position in the locality
and the worth of both father and son is recognized by all who know them. Our
subject was a prominent Democrat in Elba Township and during a great number of
years was Town Treasurer.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

Portrait and Biographical Record of Genesee, Lapeer and Tuscola Counties,
Michigan, Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative
Citizens, Together with Biographies of all the Governors of the State, and of
the Presidents of the United States

Chicago:
Chapman Bros.
1892


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