Biographical Cyclopedia of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, Compiled and
Published by the John M. Gresham Company, Chicago--Philadelphia, 1896, pp
1-2 [Jefferson Co] 

THOMAS W. BULLITT, one of the leading attorneys of Louisville, was born at
Oxmoor, Jefferson County, eight miles from Louisville, May 17, 1838.  His
father, William Christian Bullitt, was born at the same place in 1793, and
died at the residence of his daughter, Mrs. Henry Chenowith, near Oxmoor,
August 28, 1877, at the age of eighty-four years.  He spent his whole life
on the farm, except a short time when he was engaged in the practice of law
in Louisville, an occupation for which he was well equipped, but which he
abandoned on account of ill health.  He was a Whig in early life, but voted
for President Franklin Pierce, and from that time until his death he was a
pronounced Democrat.  He was a member of the Constitutional Convention of
1849-50, but was never an office seeker, although he was always earnest and
active in the interest of his party.  He was a man of great strength of
character, with decided firmness and excellent judgment.  His hospitality
was proverbial, and in this kindness he heartily seconded his excellent
wife, who loved all young people and loved to have her house will filled.
They really kept "open house" at all times, entertaining friend and stranger
in such a manner that through them and others like them the State of
Kentucky became noted for its hospitality.
     Alexander Scott Bullitt (grandfather) was a native of Prince William
County, Virginia, who came to Kentucky in 1783, when about 21 years of age,
and purchased a tract of one thousand acres of land lying on what is now the
Louisville and Shelbyville turnpike, and called it Oxmoor.  This valuable
property has been in possession of the Bullet family over one hundred years,
no part of it having been sold.
     A. S. Bullitt was president of the convention which framed the
constitution of Kentucky in 1799, and was the first lieutenant governor under
that constitution.  In 1785 he married the daughter of Col. William
Christian, whose wife was a sister of Patrick Henry of Virginia.  Col.
Christian came to Jefferson County in 1785 and was killed by the Indians in
1786.  He was buried at Oxmoor, the oldest burying ground in Kentucky, where
all the descendants of the families who have since died have been
"gathered to their fathers."  The burying ground is on what was Col.
Christian's home, adjoining Oxmoor, and is scrupulously cared for by the
family, a permanent fund having been provided for the purpose, and is in the
form of a trust in the hands of the Fidelity Trust Co.  Governor Bullitt
died in 1816.
     Cuthbert Bullitt (great-grandfather) was a Virginia lawyer of renown,
and was one of the Judges of the Supreme Court of Virginia at the time of
his death.
     Benjamin Bullitt (great-great-grandfather) was a Virginia farmer whose
father, Joseph Bullitt, a French Huguenot, came from the province of France
and settled at Port Tobacco, Maryland, on the Chesapeake Bay, in 1685.
     Mildred Ann Fry Bullitt (mother) was a native of Albemarle County,
Virginia. She survived her husband about two years and died in 1879 in her
eighty-second year. She was a faithful Christian and a member of the
Presbyterian Church.  Her father, Joshua Fry (grandfather), removed from
Virginia when she was three years old and settled in Danville.  His wife was
the daughter of Dr. Thomas Walker of Albemarle County, Virginia, whose farm
was, and is now, known as Castle Hill.
     Thomas W. Bullitt received his early training at home and in the common
schools near Oxmoor and at Centre College, graduating in 1858.  He then went
to Philadelphia and read law with his brother, John C. Bullitt, finishing
his law course in the law department of the University of Pennsylvania, and
was admitted to the Philadelphia bar in 1861, where he commenced the
practice of law with his brother.  He remained only until the spring of
1862, when he returned to Kentucky and joined the Confederate army under
Gen. John Morgan; and later accompanied that dashing officer
with seventy-five comrades in a raid upon the Ohio Penitentiary.  He did not
escape with Morgan and the others, but remained in the prison at Columbus
about eight months, when he was transferred to Fort Delaware, and there he
remained until about a month prior to the close of the war, when he was
paroled for exchange and sent to Richmond.
     After the war, Col. Bullitt returned to Louisville and commenced toe
practice of law, in which he has been vastly more successful than he was as
a Confederate soldier.  He has distinguished himself by his remarkable
industry, his good judgment and his careful study of legal subjects bearing
especially upon corporations. In addition to his lucrative law business, he
has been and is connected with a number of large corporations, banks,
railroads and other enterprises in which he is a director as well as attorney.
     He inaugurated the Fidelity Trust Company of Louisville, the first
trust company organized west of the Allegheny mountains, and later organized
the Kentucky Title Insurance Company, in which he is a director.
     He has been a Democrat ever since he become a voter, but has not
aspired to office.
     He is a member of the Presbyterian Church (South) and a liberal
supporter of the church and its work.
     Col. Bullitt was married in 1871 to Anna Priscilla, daughter of Hon.
Caleb Logan of the Louisville Chancery Court.  Her mother was the daughter
of Dr. Louis Marshall, who was a brother of Chief Justice John Marshall.
They have six children living: William Marshall, James B., Agatha M.,
Alexander S., Keith L. and Myra L.

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