Bullock, Noah Porter

BULLOCK, DUTCHER, STRANOH

Posted By: Mary H. Cochrane, Volunteer
Date: 6/28/2019 at 07:05:28

NOAH PORTER BULLOCK

NOAH PORTER BULLOCK, senior member of the firm of Bullock & Hoffman, attorneys at law, Leon has been a resident of this city since July, 1867. He is a native of Livingston County, Michigan, where he was born in 1838. His father JEREMIAH BULLOCK, was born in the “Old Bay State,” and removed with his parents to Western New York, where he married the mother of our subject, REBECCA DUTCHER, a native of the Empire State. After marriage they removed to Michigan. The father was a farmer by occupation, and one of the pioneers of that part of Michigan. He lived in that State until his death, which occurred December 4, 1842. His widow resides with her children in Kalkaskia County, Michigan. Their family comprised four sons and two daughters. N. P. BULLOCK was the youngest son, and was reared in his native state. He received a good education at the Kalamazoo Collage, having passed to the senior year of that institution. He began the study of law in the spring of 1864, reading three months with H. C. BRIGGS, at Kalamazoo. September 1, 1864, he entered the law department of the University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, and graduated in March, 1866. He obtained his education by his own exertion, doing various kinds of manual work to pay his way. He was admitted to the bar at Mt. Ayer, Ringgold County, Iowa, in 1866, where he lived for a year, when he came to Leon, July 7, 1867, where he has since resided. After remaining alone six months he was associated with JOHN W. WARNER for about a year and a half, and then became associated with his brother, J. S. WARNER, which continued eleven years, when his partner died, and the present partnership was formed, in the summer of 1880. Mr. BULLOCK was married in Mt. Ayer, in 1869, to MARTHA STRANOH, a native of Indiana. When quite young she removed with her father, JOHN STRANOH, to Ringgold County. They have five children – MAUD, EDWARD, MARTHA, NOAH PORTER, and ROY. Politically Mr. BULLOCK is a Republican of the most pronounced type. In 1872 he was mayor of Leon, and was chair man of the Republican Central Committee of Decatur County four years.