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Abington, married there (intention.-, re-
corded June 30, 1780), Mercy Smith, born
February 24, 175V. in Abington, daughter
of Jacob and Mere) I
Pratl )
Smith,
of
Weymouth, later of Abington. Their
son, Melvin Gurney, born April jj, [782,
in Abington, married, January 25,
Olive Holbrook, born there January 30,
[783, daughter of William and Olive
(Blanchard) Holbrook, of Weymouth,
later of Abington, died July
.1. [846, in the
latter town. Melvin ( iurncy, SOU of Mel-
vin ami Olive Gurney, was born Septem-
ber 27, [810, in Abington, where he died
at the age of thirty-five years, October [9,
[845.
BULKELEY, William Eliphalet Adams,
Insurance Auditor.
The senior son of the late William H.
Bulkeley, and his successor in various po-
sitions of trust and responsibility, Mr.
Bulkeley fills a useful place in the insur-
ance business of Hartford, and enjoys the
esteem of his contemporaries. His busi-
ness qualities are inherited from a long
line of efficient American ancestors, and
he enjoyed the advantage of being reared
in a New England home where the pre-
cepts and example inspired to worthy en-
dea\
Born February 19, 1868, in Hartford,
his education was supplied by the best resources
ci his native city. In 1890 he was
graduated from Trinity College with the
degree (>i Bachelor of Science, and on
the first of October of that year he became
associated with the Aetna Life Insurance
Company, in its Bond and Mortgage De-
partment, handling western farm loans,
where he continued five years. Subse-
quently he became assistant cashier of the
company, later cashier, and at the annual
meeting following the death of his father
in 1902, succeeded the latter as a director
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and as auditor of the company. When
subsidiary organizations of the company
were formed, namely the Aetn I
.Ity
and Surety Company and the Wtna Au-
tomobile Insurance Company, Colonel
Bulkeley w; lirector and auditor
ofeach. Aboul [894 he became a truste<
the Hartford Trust Company, and thus
ci ml inued until he resij the
new regulal f the Treasury Department
which did not permit servia as a
director or trustee at the same time on
the boards of competing banking institu-
tions. Colonel Bulkele) elected to remain
on the board of the larger institution, the
Hartford Aetna National Bank. lie suc-
ceeded his father in the board of directors
of the United States Bank and Amer-
ican National Bank. Soon after the lat-
ter was absorbed by the Phoenix National
Bank, he resigned from the directorate
and became a director of the Hartford
(now Hartford Aetna) National Bank.
He is a trustee of the Mechanics' Sav-
ings Bank of Hartford and a director of
the Kellogg & Bulkeley Company, a large
lithographing concern of Hartford.
Colonel Bulkeley has always filled a
prominent place in social life and affairs.
He is a member of the Epsilon Chapter of
the Delta Psi fraternity, a Fellow of Trin-
ity College, a member of the Hartford
Golf Club, and has served two terms
as president of the Hartford Club. Affil-
iated with the great Masonic fraternity,
he is a member of St. John's Lodge, An-
cient Free and Accepted Masons, of
Hartford. In 1890 he was appointed an
aide-de-camp, With rank of colonel, on
the staff of Governor Morgan G. Bulkeley.
and for eleven years was a member
of the first company, Governor's Foot
Guard, as staff officer and adjutant of the
command. In 1891 he served as a mem-
ber of the common council of the city,
representing what was then the Fourth