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Epaphras Wells Bull


Gender:
Male
Born:
April 2, 1805
Died:
1840
Home Town:
Danbury, CT
Later Residences:
Sandusky, OH
Cleveland, OH
New Milford, CT
TX
Marriage(s):
Elizabeth Margaret Snoddy Bull Alexander (October 12, 1837)
Biographical Notes:
Epaphras Wells Bull was the son of Epaphras Wadsworth Bull and his wife Polly Wells Bull. After his father's death, Epaphras returned with his mother to her parent's home in New Milford, Connecticut at the age of six. In 1826 Epaphras attended the Litchfield Law School as his father had. After completing his studies, Bull went south at the age of twenty five and was reportedly killed by Native Americans in Texas in 1840.

Education
Years at LLS:
1826

Profession / Service
Admitted To Bar:
Litchfield County, CT on April 3, 1828

Related Objects and Documents
Other:
help The Citation of Attendance provides primary source documentation of the student’s attendance at the Litchfield Female Academy and/or the Litchfield Law School. If a citation is absent, the student is thought to have attended but currently lacks primary source confirmation.

Records for the schools were sporadic, especially in the formative years of both institutions. If instructors kept comprehensive records for the Litchfield Female Academy or the Litchfield Law School, they do not survive. Researchers and staff have identified students through letters, diaries, family histories and genealogies, and town histories as well as catalogues of students printed in various years. Art and needlework have provided further identification of Female Academy Students, and Litchfield County Bar records document a number of Law School students. The history of both schools and the identification of the students who attended them owe credit to the early 20th century research and documentation efforts of Emily Noyes Vanderpoel and Samuel Fisher, and the late 20th century research and documentation efforts of Lynne Templeton Brickley and the Litchfield Historical Society staff.
CITATION OF ATTENDANCE:
Woodruff, George Catlin. "LLS Notes." Litchfield Historoical Society.

Moothall Society Record Books. Litchfield Law School Collection, Series 1, Subseries 3, Litchfield Historical Society.

Catalogue of the Litchfield Law School, Hartford, CT: Press of Case, Tiffany and Company, 1849, 21.

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