BIOGRAPHY: Charles I. Bull; Chester, Orange co., New York transcribed by W. David Samuelsen for USGenWeb Archives *********************************************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.org/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.org/ny/nyfiles.htm *********************************************************************** Portrait and Biographical Record of Rockland and Orange Counties New York Containing Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens of the Counties. Together with Biographies and Portraits of all the Presidents of the United States. New York and Chicago; Chapman Publishing Co., 1895 CHARLES I. BULL, of the town of Chester, is a descendant of William Bull, an old pioneer in this section, who came to Orange County in the middle of the eighteenth century. Our subject was born upon the farm on which he now lives in 1860, and was next to the youngest child born to Ira and Phcebe (Hawkins) Bull, both of whom were born in Orange County. Ira Bull was born in 1809, on the same farm upon which our subject lives, and spent his life there. He was prominently engaged in agricultural pursuits during his lifetime, and was also engaged in milling to some extent on his home farm. He was a quiet, honest citizen, attending strictly to his own affairs, and in his death, which occurred April 3, 1887, when seventy-seven years of age, the community lost a valued citizen and friend. His estimable wife, the mother of Charles, is still living and enjoying good health at the age of seventy. The subject of this sketch attended the district school during his youth, later attended the school at Goshen, and subsequently those at Brooklyn. He was reared upon a farm and has always followed the life of an agriculturist. His farm comprises three hundred and thirty acres of nicely improved land, which lies picturesquely between the hills. A lake of about ten acres in extent furnishes excellent water for his stock, and con-tributes large quantities of trout for the family table. His residence and outbuildings are modern, few homes in the county being more inviting. Mr. Bull is quite extensively engaged in the dairy business, having seventy-five head of milch cows. Mr. Bull was married, August 26, 1886, to Miss Mary E. Green, a daughter of William R. and Mary (Howell) Green, natives of Orange County and early settlers here. This union has been blessed by the birth of three children: Lillian, William G. and Phoebe. The parents are members of the Presbyterian Church at Chester. In politics he is a Republican and has an abiding faith in the principles of his party. He has never aspired to official honors, but has served his fellow-citizens in the capacity of Road Commissioner. Comparatively a young man, there are but few men in the community that are better or more favorably known. The farm upon which he lives was purchased in 1800 from Peter Van Helton by Richard Bull, the father of Ira.