Biography of Daniel A. Bullard, 2d
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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DANIEL A. BULLARD, 2D. DANIEL A. BULLARD, 2D, eldest son of Edward C. and Ida (Burnap) Ballard, was born in Schuylerville, October
16, 1869, and educated in the public schools of his native place. In 1886 he entered Phillips Exeter Academy from
which he was graduated in 1889; the year following he entered the Worcester Polytechnic Institute at Worcester,
Mass., graduating after a two years' course in the department of mechanical engineering. After graduating he returned
to Schuylerville and entered the employ of D. A. Bullard & Sons (in 1891), and when the firm became incorporated
under the title of The Schuylerville Paper Co., he became its first secretary, and on the death of his father,
September, 1897, he was made secretary and treasurer and general manager, positions of trust and responsibility
shared by but few as young men as himself. Although cambered with duties a much older head might find onerous to
bear, Mr. Ballard finds time to take a lively interest in the affairs of his native village.
In politics he is a staunch Republican, and although never seeking office he was elected a school trustee in 1895
for three years, and president of the village of Schuylerville from March, 1897, to 1898. Any comments on Mr. Bullard's
career in an article of this kind would almost seem superfluous, so well is he known and his abilities are recognized
to be of such a high order all over the county. At Schuylerville, where he is best known and appreciated, when
reference is made to his fine business qualifications, the reply is simply "a chip of the old block,"
referring suggestively to his father, whose place he has taken and ably fills in the conduct of the large manufacturing
business he controlled up to his death in 1897.
In June, 1896, Mr. Bullard married May, daughter of Edwin S. Sweet of Brooklyn, N. Y. Of strong domestic tendencies,
Mr. Bullard belongs to that by far too small a class known as home bodies. His preferences are the fireside as
against the club, or places of general amusement. Although just past his twenty-eighth year, Mr. Ballard has given
evidence that he possesses a superior order of business ability, keen insight and practical methods which are bound
in the future to elevate him to a high standing among business men.
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