Bullis, C. Edward

C.  EDWARD  BULLIS

     C. Edward Bullis is president and treasurer of the Whaples-Bullis Company, printers of New Haven, and in this connection is contributing in large measure to the success of one of the important industrial interests of the city. He was born in New Haven, June 2, 1870, a son of Edward W. and Ellen M. (Perkins) Bullis, the former a native of the state of New York, while the latter was born in Southington, Connecticut. The father engaged in the carriage wood working business and was foreman of Dann Brothers' factory, in which connection he filled a very responsible position. He died in the year 1897. Throughout his entire life he was actuated by a spirit of loyalty and devotion to his country and at the time of the Civil war he responded to the call for troops, joining the army with an engineering corps and rendering active and important service as a bridge builder. His wife died in New Haven in 1884. when she had reached the age of fifty years. In their family were five children, of whom two daughters are living: Mrs. Nellie J. Whaples, of New Haven; and Mrs. A. H. Hayes, of the same city.
     C. Edward Bullis pursued his education in the public schools of New Haven and when his textbooks were put aside began learning the printing business under the direction of C. G. Whaples. He continued active along that line for a year and then purchased an interest in the printing and book binding business of C. G. Whaples, the firm becoming known as the Whaples-Bullis Company. Their business has grown steadily under the direction of Mr. Bullis, who has had much to do with the management, and today a large and profitable business is enjoyed. He is also a director of the Pyramid Building Company. There are no esoteric phases in his business career and the secret of his success is not hard, to find. He has worked diligently and persistently along well defined lines and has recognized the fact that satisfied patrons are the best advertisement. He has therefore made it his purpose to give to the public the best that can be produced in his line and by reason of general satisfaction on the part of those who have given him their trade his business has steadily grown.
    On the 2d of July, 1895, Mr. Bullis was united in marriage to Miss Nina Whaples, of New Haven, and they have become parents of three children: Helen M., who was born in 1899 and is a graduate of the Hillhouse high school with the class of 1917; Donald P., who was born in New Haven in 1901 and is attending the Hillhouse high school; and Glenna E., who was born in 1907 and is also in school.
     Mr. Bullis was well known as the secretary of the New Haven Publicity Club, to which position he was called in 1916 and which he filled until March, 1917. He is well known in Masonic circles, belonging to Adelphi Lodge, Pulaski Chapter and Crawford Council, and he also has membership in the New Haven Masonic Club. He is connected with the Chamber of Commerce and cooperates heartily in all of its plans and projects for promoting the public welfare. His political allegiance is given to the republican party but he does not seek nor desire office. His religious faith is manifest in his membership in Plymouth Congregational church and he is at all times interested in the material, intellectual, social, political and moral progress of the community in which he has always made his home. New Haven has reason to be proud of him as a native son. for his course has at all times reflected credit upon the city. He has been actuated by laudable ambition in his business career and while carrying forward important interests he has at the same time found opportunity to cooperate in all those plans which take cognizance of the city's needs, its possibilities and its opportunities.
 
 

Modern History of New Haven
and 
Eastern New Haven County

Illustrated

Volume II

New York – Chicago
The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company 
1918

pgs 551 - 552

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