William Fontaine Bullock

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1807

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1889

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"William Fontaine Bullock" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00000977, (accessed April 19, 2025).

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Louisville, Kentucky, attorney. Fayette County, Kentucky, native. Son of Edmund Bullock and Elizabeth Fontaine Bullock. Married to Mary Bullock. Father of John O. Bullock, William F. Bullock, Jr., Pearce Bullock, Henry P. Bullock, and Wallace Bullock. Graduated from Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky, in 1824. Began practicing law in Louisville in 1828. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Louisville from 1838 to 1841. Trustee of the Kentucky School for the Blind. Appointed circuit judge of the Fifth Judicial District of Kentucky in 1846. Circuit judge in Louisville in 1850. Owned three enslaved persons in Louisville in 1850. Attorney in Louisville in 1860. Owned two enslaved persons in Louisville in 1860. Employed Bridget Flanigan as a servant in Louisville in 1860. Notary public in Jefferson County in 1861.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, Ward 7, p. 350B.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, Ward 7, p. 865.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, Ward 6, p. 254.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, Ward 6, p. 2.
W. H. Perrin, J. H. Battle, and G. C. Kniffin, Kentucky: A History of the State, 8th ed. (Louisville and Chicago: F. A. Battey and Company, 1888), 753-56.
"Judge William Fontaine Bullock (1807-1889)," Find A Grave, Memorial 92046669, accessed June, 29, 2017, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/92046669.
KYR-0001-017-0062.

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