Commemorative biographical record of Hartford County, Connecticut : containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens, and of many of the early settled families . years he has been on his return to Hartford he waselected a director of the .Etna Life Insurance Co.,was also vice-president of the same in 1877-70, andis at present auditor, which office he has held manyyears. He has had more to do with the success ofthe company than any other man who has not heldan executive office. Gen. Bulkeley has borne a veryclose relation to the company in an advis
Commemorative biographical record of Hartford County, Connecticut : containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens, and of many of the early settled families . years he has been on his return to Hartford he waselected a director of the .Etna Life Insurance Co.,was also vice-president of the same in 1877-70, andis at present auditor, which office he has held manyyears. He has had more to do with the success ofthe company than any other man who has not heldan executive office. Gen. Bulkeley has borne a veryclose relation to the company in an advisory ca-pacity for the past quarter of a century, and hisbusiness judgment has proved invaluable in thedirection of its policy. He has been and still isprominently connected with a number of the bank-ing, insurance and other corporations of Hartford,among which are the United States Bank, of whichhe is vice-president and a director, the AmericanNational Hank, of which he is a director, and theKellogg & Bulkeley Co. In 1878 he purchased theBee Hive, a famous dry-goods establishment,which he managed for years with great has been honored with official position, and has. ri^/L^Sj ^6 ^-^aJl. COMMEMORATIVE BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 71 had large experience in city and State served his fellow citizens for five years in thecommon council of Hartford, acting a portion ofthe time as vice-president and president of theboard. He also served as one of the street com-missioners of the city for some seven or eight years,in which he proved a very efficient member. was commissary-general of the State,commissioner of Connecticut to the Yorktown Cen-tennial Celebration, and was elected to the office oflieutenant-governor of Connecticut on the ticket withGov. Bigeiow, serving with credit through 1881 and1882. He made a good presiding officer of the Sen-ate. In 1882 he was a Republican candidate for gov-ernor, and in the exciting time which followed theelection conducted
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