Bulla, L. D.

BULLA

Posted By: Joyce Hickman (email)
Date: 9/16/2008 at 13:47:59

L. D. Bulla

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.153, Macedonia Twp.)
L. D. Bulla, lumber merchant, Macedonia, was born in Tippecanoe County, Ind., January 16, 1844; his father, James Bulla, born in Tennessee, December 7, 1815, but reared till ten or twelve years old in Georgia, whence he emigrated to Indiana. He, with five brothers, landed at Richmond, Ind., when it was a wilderness; there four of the five brothers lived and died strict members of the Quaker Church. Father of subject was a brick-layer and stone-mason by trade, and died in Danville, Ill., September 11, 1861. Subject's mother, Abigail (Osborn) Bulla, born in Ohio October 28, 1824; she was the mother of four children, of whom subject is the oldest; but two of the children are living. Mr. Bulla's father came to Iowa, and at Des Moines took up land near Fort Dodge in teh fall of 1854, which land subsequently fell to the heirs. Mr. Bulla attended the common schools, and was bound out when about eleven years old, continuing thus till the spring of 1861, when he enlisted in Company G, Twentieth Indiana Volunteers. He served as private for three years and foty-one days; being in thirteen skirmishes and fourteen pitched battles; was wounded four times and carries a buckshot in his face. After returning from the army, he attended school two terms at the State Normal at Kokomo, Ind., then he taught school one winter, and in the spring of 1865 came to Iowa, settling near Fort Dodge on the farm that his father had entered in 1854. he remained in this county three years, sold out and moved to Linn County, near Mr. Vernon, where he ran a saw-mill one year, then came to Council Blfufs in April, 1870. There he was engaged in the saw-mill business with Shugart & Lininger till the spring of 1876. Then he moved to Emerson, Mills Co., Iowa, and started in the implement business, in the spring of 1879, adding hardware to his other business, which he conducted successfully, till being burned out in September, 1879. Then he rebuilt, took a partner, and opened a hardware and grocery store. He sold out in July, 1880, came to Macedonia, and entered the lumber business with Lewis Hammer, of Council Bluffs, where he still remains. Mr. Bulla married Miss Sarah J. Albee, at Fort Dodge, March 25, 1866. She was born in Ohio, October 11, 1845; her father, Heiman C. Albee, bornin Rutland, Vt., in 1819; emigrated to Ohio when a young man; there he marreid, raised his family, and from there emigrated to Fort Dodge, Iowa, with his brother, E. H. Albee, in 1854, and there they still live. Mrs. Bulla's mother, Mary Rowson, was born November 29, 1815, and is the mother of seven children, three of whom are living. Mr. and Mrs. Bulla have had three children; they are, Oliver Morton, Mary O., Josie Ellen, Lena Abigail (deceased). Mr. Bulls is a member of the Masonic fraternity, and also of the M. E. Church. he is an active Republican.