- GEORGE WASHINGTON BULFINCH, of the town of Sylvester, is
well known among the
- pioneers of Green county. He occupies a well-improved farm
about four miles northwest of Juda.
- William and Mary (SHERMAN) BULFINCH, his parents, came of
old Massachusetts stock.
- They were married Feb. 19, 1821, and became the parents of
nine children: Oscar C., born Dec. 3, 1821, died an infant; Joseph,
born Nov. 14, 1822; William S., born Sept. 13, 1823, died April
21, 1850; John A., born Sept. 5, 1826; Marshall L., April 12,
1828, a resident of Grant City, Mo., where he has followed the
tailoring trade; George Washington, our subject; Mary O., born
Aug. 25, 1832, died July 15, 1837; Edward E., born March 28,
1835; and Eunice, born May 28, 1836. This family have all passed
away except George W. and Marshall L.
- George W. BULFINCH was born June 11, 1830, and came West
with his parents in 1844.
- They subsequently spent some time in Illinois, remaining
there until 1847, when they made their home on Section 22, town
of Sylvester, all of this land being now included in the farm
on which Mr. BULFINCH is living. Mr. BULFINCH was married, May
14, 1861, to Alice, a daughter of George and Agnes (ATKINSON)
FLETCHER, from Cumberland, England. Mrs. BULFINCH came to Green
county with her parents when she was ten years old. In 1856 her
parents removed to Kansas, where her father died. Mr. and Mrs.
BULFINCH have had three children: (1) Erwin Marshall, born March
16, 1862, is a civil engineer, and has his home in Guatemala,
Central America. (2) Mary A., born Oct. 2, 1870, is a graduate
of the University of Wisconsin, and is a school teacher. (3)
Arthur F., born Jan. 5, 1872, is also a graduate of the University
of Wisconsin.
- Mr. BULFINCH was reared on the farm, and obtained his education
in the local schools. In
- 1853 he took a trip to Oregon and California, making the
journey overland with six yoke of oxen and trail wagons. He returned
to Wisconsin in 1856, by the Isthmus route and steamer to New
York City, from which point he came back to his home. This journey
covered about twelve thousand miles. Later Mr. BULFINCH made
a trip to Montana, and still later a second trip to California.
In 1867 he was again in Montana, and once more returned to Wisconsin
in 1869. Mr. BULFINCH remained on the home farm until l875, when
he went to the Black Hills, and in 1876 he again made the journey,
coming back late in the same year. He has also been in Arizona
and New Mexico. Since 1876, however, he has devoted himself steadily
to home farming, and has been very successful. Mr. BULFINCH is
an honorable and upright man, a patriotic citizen, and well informed
on everything that relates to farming.
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- Taken from "Commemorative Biographical Record of
the Counties of Rock, Green, Grant, Iowa and Lafayette Wisconsin,"
(c)1901 Union Publishing; pp. 876-877.
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- Courtesy of Carol.
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