Biography of Stephen C. Bull
FROM OUR COUNTY AND ITS PEOPLE
A DESCRIPTIVE AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD
OF SARATOGA COUNTY, NEW YORK
PREPARED AND PUBLISHED UNDER THE
AUSPICES OF THE SARATOGIAN
THE BOSTON HISTORY COMPANY, PUBLISHERS 1899
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Bull, Stephen C., was born in Whitehall, N. Y., and educated in the Albany academy, Albany, N. Y. Since his
school days he has been engaged in the insurance business and has attained the status of an expert on insurance.
He came to Saratoga Springs from Albany, in 1896, and opened offices in the Ainsworth Place and is doing a general
insurance business. The companies represented by him are the Connecticut General Life Insurance Company, of Hartford,
Conn.; Standard Accident Insurance Company, of Detroit, Mich.; New Jersey Plate Glass Insurance Company, of Newark,
N. J.; the United States Fidelity & Guarantee Company, of Baltimore, Md., and a large number of prominent fire
insurance companies. Mr. Bull is a member of the Masonic fraternity. In 1887 he married Sadie Parker Britton, daughter
of the late Winchester Britton, a prominent lawyer and once district attorney of Brooklyn, N. Y.; they have one
daughter, Edith Britton BulL Mr. Bull's parents are Martin Van Buren and Anna Jane (Stowell) Bull, of Albany, N.
Y. His father has long been an active and successful insurance man. The Bull family were the direct descendants
of Henry Bull, who was born in 1610 and who came to Boston from South Wales on Juue 4, 1635, and was governor of
Rhode Island in 1685, 1686 and 1690. He died at Newport in 1694.
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