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i patriotic wi »rk, and has been in alrrn I
constant demand as a ^*
. M.
and lecturer.
C. A. worker
In hi-- lir-t Connecticut pastorate, which
was near Waterbury, he was largel)
sponsible for the erection t' the fine stone
edifice which his parish then built and
dedicated without debt. In July. loiw. he
received a unanimous call to become pastor
of the Enfield (Connecticut) Cong
(rational Church. This church was made
famous by the preaching of Jonathan Ed-
wards. These new duties he assumed,
having previously closed a ten years' pas-
torate with the Cromwell church.
Again, this historic old parish was the
scene i
if an impressn e and inspiring serv-
ice when thej installed by Council, as
pastor, Chaplain llildreth, on April 26,
[920. In his paper before the Council, he
not only set forth his beliefs in no uncertain
words, he also concluded the same
with his m< 'tive-nii »ttO :
"All things to all
men. that I might by all mean-, win some."
On May
Emma ( )rr,
10. [897,
daughter
he
of
married Tillie
Robert M. and
Jane (Wilson) Orr, of Xew York City,
who were of Scotch ancestry. Their son,
Earl Wesley llildreth. was born in Al-
bany, Vermont, July 24, 1S08, and their
daughter, Frances Orr llildreth, was born
in Rochester, Vermont, April 3, 1901.
BULKELEY, William Henry,
Capitalist, Public Official.
The late William H. Bulkeley, a scion of
one of the oldest ami most honored fami-
lies of Connecticut, was identified through
a long life with the business interests of
Hartford, and enjoyed the esteem and
>F I'.K >GRAPHY
William II. Bulkeley, thud son of Eli-
phalet A. and Lydia S. 1.Moil. .mi Bulke-
le_\ . w
as bi n n March -\ [8 \o, in 1
Haddam, and was a small boj when his
parents settled in Hartford. In the public
schools he was a diligent student, and
made a remarkable record for scholarship.
Turning his attention to business at an
early age, he became an office hoy in the
office of the Aetna Life Insurance <
om-
pany at a salary of one dollar per week.
Subsequently, at the age of sixteen year-,
he began his long business career as a
clerk in one of the oldest dry-goods estab-
lishments of Hartford. In the spring of
[857 he became associated with the firm
of H. P. Morgan & Company, dry-goods
dealers in Brooklyn, New York, and subsequently
established himself in the same
line of business on Fulton street in that
city, where he continued with success for
a period of six years. When the Civil
War of 1861 was begun, young Bulkeley
was among the first to respond to his
country's call, at the time of the attack on
Fort Sumter. He was a member of Company
G, Thirteenth Regiment, Xew York
National Guard, known as the "Brooklyn
City Guard," which organization proceeded
to the front, April 19, 1S61, and
continued in service for four months. In
1862, Mr. Bulkeley organized a company
which became known as Company G,
Fifty-sixth Regiment. Xew York Xational
Guard, of which he was made captain.
Through the Pennsylvania crisis of 1863,
his command was in General "Baldy"
Smith's division, and the regiment also
did service during the Xew York draft
riots, after which it was disbanded, hav-
confidence of his contemporaries. An ex- ing fulfilled its term of service Return-
ing to his old home in Hartford, Captain
tended history of his progenitors is found
in connection with the biography of his
elder brother, Hon. Morgan G. Bulkeley.
in a preceding volume of this work.
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Bulkeley embarked in the lithographic
business, organizing the Kellogg & Bulke-
ley Company, which still operates a