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     March 9, 1894. To have known her father and mother was to know the daugh— 
     
     ter. Generous, sympathetic and kind, her hand never wearied in well doing, scat— 
     
     tering its bounties into the homes of the poor, and uplifting the fallen. For the 
     
     last few years of her life she was an invalid, and was obliged to retire from so— 
     
     ciety, but 'she never allowed her suffering to interfere with her charities. Her love 
     
     and affection for her children and grandchildren seemed to increase as she neared 
     
     the close of her life, and was never greater than when “ her life, so true, devoted, 
     
     patient and loving, closed in peace.” 
     
     She married, August 29, I 844, Alexander Hamilton Bullock. “ He was born in 
     
     Royalston, Worcester County, Massachusetts, March 2, 1816. He was fitted for 
     
     college in his native town, and at Leicester Academy. He entered Amherst Col~ 
     
     lege in 1832, and graduated in 1836, the second scholar in his class, delivering 
     
     the salutatory oration at Commencement. After graduating, Mr. Bullock taught 
     
     school at Royalston, and at Kingston, Rhode Island. He then studied law at 
     
     Harvard Law School, under Story and Greenleaf. Leaving the law school in 
     
     1840, he spent a year in the office of Emory Washburn, at Worcester, and was 
     
     admitted to the bar in 1841. He soon established a large business as agent of 
     
     important insurance companies, and withdrew himself altogether from the practice 
     
     of law. . . March 1, 1842, Mr. Bullock became editor of the National 15gb, a 
     
     weekly Whig newspaper, published in Worcester. He retained this connection 
     
     several years. Mr. Bullock represented Worcester in the Massachusetts House 
     
     of Representatives in I 845, I 847, and I 848, and in the Senate in 1849. He spoke 
     
     infrequently, and only on important questions, and with careful preparation. His 
     
     eulogy on John Quincy Adams, in 1848, was especially impressive. . . . He was 
     
     Mayor of Worcester in 1859. His term of office was rendered memorable in the 
     
     history of the City Library, of whose board of trustees he was the first president. 
     
     . . . He was appointed Commissioner of Insolvency for the County of Worces— 
     
     ter by Governor Clifford in 1853. The jurisdiction of these officers was trans— 
     
     ferred to the Court of Insolvency by statute of 1856. Mr. Bullock was appointed 
     
     Judge of that court, for the County of Worcester, in June, 1856, and held the 
     
     office until 1858. . . . Mr. Bullock was re—eleéted to the House of Representa— 
     
     tives in the fall of 1861. When the Legislature organized in January, 1862, he 
     
     was elected Speaker, receiving every vote cast. . . . He was elected Speaker again 
     
     in January, 1863, receiving every vote cast except three for Caleb Cushing." 
     
     In 1865 Mr. Bullock was elected Governor of the State of Massachusetts, and 
     
     from that time until his death, on the seventeenth day of January, 1882, he was 
     
     more or less actively engaged in public service. Hon. George F. Hoar, in closing 
     
     the account of Mr. Bullock’s life, adds : “ Mr. Bullock’s refined and delicate na— 
     
     ture found, as his life advanced, its most congenial atmosphere within the walls 
     
     of his home, and led him to shrink more and more from the rough strifes of pol— 
     
     itics. He delighted in days spent in literary pursuits in his library, and in eve— 
     
     nings of hospitable welcome to neighbors, friends and strangers. His strong 
     
     domestic afi‘edtions found most abundant satisfaction in his own family circle, 
     
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