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 Ephraim Wales Bull

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Ephraim Wales Bull Famous memorial

Birth
Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA
Death
26 Sep 1895 (aged 89)
Concord, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
Burial
Concord, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
Plot
Lot: 38, Lot Path: GLEN AVENUE, Grave: 2
Memorial ID
1477 View Source

Farmer, Politician. Creator of the Concord grape. Bull was born in Boston and learned the trade of a gold-beater. In 1836, he moved to Concord to a home now called Grapevine Cottage and there cultivated the Concord grape, a hardier grape capable of surviving in Massachusetts. He exhibited his new grape to the Massachusetts Horticultural Society and, by 1854, it was successfully put on the market. It sales were hard to control and, ultimately, Bull did not make much money from its cultivation. In 1855, he was elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives and became chair of the Committee on Agriculture. He was later elected to the Massachusetts Senate. He died at the Concord Home for the Aged.

Farmer, Politician. Creator of the Concord grape. Bull was born in Boston and learned the trade of a gold-beater. In 1836, he moved to Concord to a home now called Grapevine Cottage and there cultivated the Concord grape, a hardier grape capable of surviving in Massachusetts. He exhibited his new grape to the Massachusetts Horticultural Society and, by 1854, it was successfully put on the market. It sales were hard to control and, ultimately, Bull did not make much money from its cultivation. In 1855, he was elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives and became chair of the Committee on Agriculture. He was later elected to the Massachusetts Senate. He died at the Concord Home for the Aged.

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"He Sowed, Others Reaped."


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  • Maintained by: Find a Grave
  • Added: 25 Apr 1998
  • Find a Grave Memorial ID: 1477
  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/1477/ephraim-wales-bull: accessed ), memorial page for Ephraim Wales Bull (4 Mar 1806–26 Sep 1895), Find a Grave Memorial ID 1477, citing Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA; Maintained by Find a Grave.