Bullen, George, D.D., was born in New Sharon, Me. He graduated at Waterville College in the class of 1855, and at the Newton Theological In- ‘ stitution in the class of 1858.

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Bullen, George, D.D., was born in New Sharon, Me. He graduated at Waterville College in the class of 1855, and at the Newton Theological In- ‘ stitution in the class of 1858. He was ordained as pastor of the church in Skowhegan, Me., June 13, 1850, where he remained until, in 1863, he accepted an appointment as chaplain in a regiment of U. S. volunteers. He ministered to the Wakefield Bap- tist church, 1864-67, and entered upon his duties as pastor of the church in Pawtucket, R. I., in 1868, and continues in this relation at this time. Colby University has just conferred on him the degree of Doctor of Divinity. From the Baptist Encyclopedia by William CathcartThe following and photo are from findagraveREV. GEORGE BULLEN, D.D. born in New Sharon, Me., 8 Nov. I833, died in Newton, Mass., 20 Aug. 1916. He married in Newton, 28 Mar. 1860. Dr. Bullen prepared for college in the schools in New Sharon and at Waterville Academy (now Coburn Classical Institute), and was graduated from Waterville College (now Colby College), in 1853. Following this, be taught for two years, and then in 1858, was graduated from the Newton Theological Institution in Newton Centre, Mass., completing his education by a year’s study in Germany at the Universities of Halle and Gottingen. After his marriage in 1860, he became the pastor of the Baptist Church in Bloomfield (annexed to Skowhegan in 1861), ME., remaining there two years. The Civil War was now in progress, and Dr. Bullen served as the Chaplain of the 16th Regiment, Maine Volunteers, from August 1862 until October 1863. He became identified with the Baptist Church in South Reading (now Wakefield), Mass., in January 1864, resigning this pastorate because of ill health in November 1866. From September 1867 until May 1868, he supplied the pulpit in Brighton, Mass., and then commenced his long connection with the First Baptist Church in Pawtucket, R. I., serving as its pastor from September 1868 until SI Mar. 1891. In April 1891, he became professor of Christian Missions in the Newton Theological Institution, which chair he held until August 1897. He continued to live in Newton Centre from 1897 to 1900, supplying at the Brighton Avenue Church in Brighton in 1898. He then went to New London, N. H., where he served from 1900 to 1906, and followed this by two years in Needham, Mass., supplying the pulpit in South Boston during the winter of 1906-1907. In September 1908, he became the pastor in Hingham, Mass., leaving there in October 1915, for both Mrs. Bullen and be had been badly hurt in a railroad wreck in August 1912, and he was compelled to be a patient in the New England Baptist Hospital for nearly a year. Receiving his Doctor of Divinity from Colby College in 1880, he also was honored with many positions of responsibility and trust. He was president of the Rhode Island Baptist State Convention from 1875 to 1891; a trustee of the Newton Theological Institution from 1875 to 1891 and from 1909 to 1916; corresponding secretary of the Northern Baptist Educational Society from April 1891 to October 1896; and a trustee of Colby College from 189S to 1916. On the Board of Managers of the American Baptist Foreign Missionary Society, Dr. Bullen also served as a member of the committee representing that body, in the conferences regarding the merger of the Baptists and Free Baptists, from 1905 to 1911. He received an honorary membership in Phi Beta Kappa at Brown University. His widow, the daughter of the eminent Dr. Ripley, one of the earliest professors of the Newton Theological Institution, survived her husband, some twelve years, and died at the age of ninety-one years, in the old Ripley home on Ripley Terrace, Newton Centre, in the very house in which she was born.Message sent by Dale B.