Samuel Corbin Bull

Birth Date

1834-09-19

Death Date

1905-01-19

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Frankfort, Kentucky, merchant, soldier, and commissioner. Shelby County, Kentucky, native. Married to Jacqueline Page Bull. Father of Jennie Page Bull and Annie Tilford Bull. Merchant in Frankfort in 1860. Clerk for James M. Todd in Frankfort. Served in the Frankfort Union Guard as a second lieutenant from July 1862 to August 1862. Served in the 36th Regiment of Enrolled Militia as a sergeant in June 1864. Commissioner of the Kentucky Institute for the Feeble Minded in 1864.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedule, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort, p. 242.
Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 2, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 869 and 897.
"Death of Samuel C Bull," The Courier-Journal (Louisville, Ky.), January 20, 1905, p. 7.
Find A Grave, "Samuel Corbin Bull (1834-1905)," Memorial #79950446, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/79950446/samuel-corbin-bull (accessed March 29, 2017).

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