SAMUEL BULGER

BULGER, STICKWELL

Posted By: Mona Sarratt Knight (email)
Date: 5/24/2009 at 07:23:37

Source: The History of Appanoose County, Iowa, Containing A History of the County, its Cities, Towns, etc., A Biographical Directory of Citizens, War Records of its Volunteers in the late Rebellion, General and Local Statistics, Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men, History of the Northwest, History of Iowa, Map of Appanoose County, Constitution of the United States, Miscellaneous Matters, etc.; illustrated; Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1878.

SAMUEL BULGER, of Caldwell & Bulger, dry goods, groceries and general merchandise, Main street, corner of Second; residence, Oak between Sixth and Seventh Streets; born in Fayette Co., Penn., in 1839, removed to Ohio in 1840; thence to Clinton, Iowa, in 1851, and to this county in 1874; owns 125 acres of land on Sec. 25, Washington Tp., valued at $25 per acre and a half interest in an extensive line of goods. Married Miss Alice D. Stickwell in 1864; she was born in New Hampshire in 1839; they have three children - Clara, Bert, and Charles. Greenbacker. Trustee of township and corporation. Members of the Christian Church. He is a member of I.O.O.F., No. 297, Moulton. Was a resident of Texas in 1857; remained there until after the war broke out, and was pressed into rebel service; remained until taken prisoner and sent to Springfield, Ill.; left their service and was sent to his home in Clinton, Iowa; was then again forced into service by the North; served three months and hired a substitute.