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1936 Bull Family chooses Amy Bull Crist PresidentEntry/Object ID
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Bull Family Organization Chooses Woman President
Annual Gathering Returned to Former Day, Last Wednesday in August
GOSHEN-Mrs. Amy Bull Crist of Montgomery was elected president of
the Bull Family Association by managers Saturday after her report that
attendance on Wednesday was approximately 200 members of the family present at the sixty-ninth annual picnic and reunion in the park of the
Hamptonburgh Stone House. The association also re-established the
last Wednesday of August as the official date for the day of
the annual gathering.
Although most of the 300 members, guests and friends of the
family present are of Orange County, there were, as usual, a number of
visitors from distant parts of the country. The prize for the greatest
distance traveled to the meeting went to Mrs. Anna Booth Williams of Houston, Texas. Also present was Mrs. Mary Ackley Holt of
Jacksonville, Fla.
Hamlet S. Roe of Chester, Jesse F. Zabriskie of Hackensack, N. J.,
and Mrs. Bernard L. Ackerly of Crystal Run, were elected by the
family to the Board of Managers. Mr. Roe and Mrs. Zabriskie were
re-elected and Mrs. Ackerly succeeds Miss Dolly Booth, who declined reelection.
Charles W. Tuthill of Campbell Hall was selected to serve the un-
expired term of the late Albert C. Bull, president of the association,
who died January sixth. Miss Phebe Slaughter Bull of Warwick was
elected for one year to fill the vacancy created on the board by
the resignation of Miss Cornelia Hawkins. Tellers for the election were
Pierson Booth, C. B. Howell and Clarence Knight.
The board of managers, convening after the general business session, named Mrs. Crist as president and designated Hamlet S. Roe to
succeed her as vice-president. Robert McLeod Jackson of Hamptonburgh and New York, and Ernest M. Bull of Blooming Grove were
re-elected secretary and treasurer respectively.
The question of whether the association should meet on the last
Wednesday or Saturday in August was settled by an overwhelming
vote in favor of the old arrangement. Mrs. Crist explained the
notices calling the meeting for last Saturday had been sent out in error
as that was not the final Saturday of the month. Objections to the
date were based on the fact that many members of the family work
in stores on that day.
Mrs. Crist also said in attendance at the picnic would have been considerably better had not members of the group gone to Middletown for the Fair and races.
Mrs. Harry Bull reported realization by the family of $100 as its
share of profits from an antique sale held in conjunction with the
Hamptonburgh Presbyterian church at Campbell Hall. Mr. Jackson reported gift of three shares of Chester National Bank stock worth $450 by the late Albert C. Bull and $100 by Theodore D. Moore of Yonkers.
Mrs. Crist informed the group that a set of three antique brass
kettles, only owned by Miss Rachel Ward Farrington had been presented to
the Stone House by Mr. Jackson.
Mr. Jackson reported receipt of a telegram from William P. Bull
of Charleston, S. C. unable to attend at eighty, and many letters at-
miring reunion picnics. A resolution commending Mr. Bull's interest was
adapted.
Communications from Mr. and Mrs. Henry Bull of Buffalo; William R. Bull of New York, and Andrew S. Beyea, of Smithtown, New Brunswick, expressing the family's inability to attend the meeting were read by Mr. Jackson.
A resolution also was passed commending the services of Mrs. Margaret
Dill Halligan as secretary of the family for a number of years.
Official Staff of Bull Family
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Left to right, front row- Mrs. Amy Bull Crist, president; Hamlet S. Roe, Chester, vice-president; Mrs. Vertrees L. Ackerly, Crystal Run, manager; Jesse F. Zabriskie, Campbell Hall, and Jesse F. Zabriskie, Hackensack, N.
J., board of managers. Right rear-Robert McLeod Jackson of New York, secretary; Ernest M. Bull of Blooming Grove, treasurer; Harry Bull, Campbell Hall.Relationships
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