Yolo County Biographies


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W. G. BULLARD
 
W. G. Bullard, merchant and Postmaster at Davisville, dates his birth June 20, 
1831, in Monroe County, New York.  His parents, Benjamin and Eleanor (Weaver) 
Bullard, were natives respectively of Vermont and New York.  The father, a 
shoemaker by trade, but chiefly a farmer by occupation through life, moved in 
1836 to Oakland County, Michigan, settling near Walled Lake, upon land which he 
purchased there.  In 1849 he sold out and moved to Fredonia, Calhoun County, 
same State, where he remained until 1853, and then he came to California with 
his family, overland, being five months and two days on the route, ending at 
Sacramento.  He was interested in a hotel there until 1870 and then he was a 
resident of Davisville until he died, in December, 1884, at the age of 
seventy-nine years.  In his family were three sons and five daughters.
 
The subject of this sketch was brought up on a farm and was with his parents 
when they came to California.  The first work which he did for his own interest 
was at mining, principally at Timbuctoo, above Marysville <Yuba County>, and in 
this business he continued about nine years, in company with a brother and a 
brother-in-law.  He closed his mining experience with $2,200, to be divided 
between the three.  Then for about four years he was in the transfer business in 
Sacramento; next he was book-keeper for a canal company and a general 
merchandise house at Michigan Bar for three years; and then, in 1870 he removed 
to Davisville and was book-keeper for Drisback & Company until that firm failed; 
then he started out for himself in the grain and mercantile business, but, not 
having the courage to deny credit, he failed in this enterprise.  His general 
character and uprightness was too well known for him to be long waiting for an 
opportunity, and in 1886 he was appointed Postmaster at Davisville, in which 
position he has served the people to the present time.  In connection with the 
office, he runs a very neat store of groceries and general merchandise.  He is a 
member of Dixon Chapter and Woodland Commandery of the Masonic order.
 
Mr. Bullard was married October 20, 1868, to Mary A. T. Farrell, a native of 
Ireland, and they have two daughters and three sons, whose names are Mary E., 
Walter W., Edward F., William G. and Nettie B.
 
Memorial & Biographical History of Northern California, The Lewis Publishing 
Co., 1891
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler