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very short, as he contracted a severe cold, which developed into 

 rheumatism, incapacitating him from further work, so that he 

 was mustered out of service. Returning to New York he formed 

 a partnership with William Wales, and continued in business 

 there until 1866, when he moved to Chicago. He was very suc- 

 cessful, and had accumulated considerable means, when his shop 

 and tools were destroyed in the memorable Chicago fire of Oct. 

 8-9, 1871, and Mr. Bulloch sustained a financial loss from which 

 he never recovered. Immediately after this misfortune he went 

 to Boston, and was for a time connected with the late R. B. 

 Tolles, but soon returned to Chicago. In 1888 he accepted a 

 position in the Bureau of Weights and Measures uuder the 

 Government, but he chafed under the restraints of an official 

 situation, and after six months' experieuce, returned to his home 

 in Chicago. Before he left, his health had begun to fail, and 

 after his return late in the Fall of 1890, he suflTered still more. 

 But his indomitable perseverance led him to struggle on. He 

 opened a place at No. 303 Dearborn street, in a very advant- 

 ageous business portion of the city, and began work again. It 

 was not for long. After struggling with disease for almost six 

 months, he was compelled to stop forever. He died Nov. 5, 

 1891. 



Mr. Bulloch was a man of pronounced character and indomit- 

 able energy and perseverance. To those who did not know him 

 well, he appeared brusque and overbearing, but his numerous 

 friends soon learned to appreciate his straightforward manner 

 of expressing his views, his pertinacious but just demands for a 

 proper recognition of his rights, and his outspoken criticism of 

 what he deemed erroneous in the theories or opinions o( others. 

 In his business he was conscientious and painstaking to a fault. 

 Often when making an instrument or piece of apparatus to order, 

 if he saw where there was room for improvement, he would 

 spend hours or days in experiments, perhaps wasting the results 

 of all his previous labor, refusing to slight his work at any cost. 

 Whether it was the simplest accessory or the finest microscope - 

 stand, nothing was allowed to leave his work-bench until it was 

 as perfect as his trained hand and eye could make it. His re- 

 putation was more than money, and he lived to see his fame 

 world-wide. Besides being a member of the Illinois State Micro- 

 scopical Society, he was a member of the Chicago Academy 



