Bulkley, Justin, D.D.—Dr. Bulkley, Professor of Church History and Church Polity at Shurtleff College, was born at Leicester, Livingston Co., N. Y., July 23, 1819.

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Bulkley, Justin, D.D.—Dr. Bulkley, Professor of Church History and Church Polity at Shurtleff College, was born at Leicester, Livingston Co., N. Y., July 23, 1819. His father, an industrious farmer, and a man of high character, removed subsequently to Illinois, and died at Barry, July 24, 1859, his wife surviving him only a few years. The son was seventeen years of age at the date of this removal to Illinois. At the age of twenty- three he entered the preparatory department of Shurtleff College, his education until that time being such as the imperfect school system in Cen- tral Illinois then afforded. He graduated in 1847. His first post of service was that of principal of the preparatory department in his college, to which he was chosen immediately upon his graduation. Two years later, in February, 1849, he was or- dained pastor of the Baptist church in Jerseyville. After four years of unusually successful service in this pastorate, he was elected Professor of Mathe- matics in Shurtleff College, resigning that position in 1855, and becoming pastor of the church in Carrollton. After nine years at Carrollton he re- turned to Upper Alton, the seat of Shurtleff Col- lege, and at the end of a year accepted the post in the college which he now fills. Dr. Bulkley’s service in the several positions he has held has been one of marked usefulness. As a preacher, he has a peculiar: power over the sym- pathies as well as the convictions of his hearers. As a pastor, his excellent judgment, his kind spirit, his sympathetic nature, make him the trusted friend’ no less than the honored leader and teacher. As a professor, he has always gained in a peculiar de- gree the confidence and affection of his pupils, while his teaching has been thorough, critical, and exact. The estimation in which he is held by the denomination in the State is shown by his election during successive years as moderator of the Gen- eral Association, and in the fact that since the year 1851 the often delicate and important service of chairman of the Committee on Elections in the General Association has, year by year, been com- mitted to him. From the Baptist Encyclopedia by William Cathcart