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Diary of Edward Bates, Tuesday, July 26, 1859

. . . Mr. Bullard of Boston, brother of the late Revd. Dr. Bullard,46 introduced by Dr. Jno. B. Johnson.47
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46 Artemas Bullard, agent of the Massachusetts Sunday-School Union, 1828-1834; Mississippi Valley agent of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, 1834— 1838; minister of the First Presbyterian Church in St. Louis from 1838 until killed in a railroad accident in 1855.

47 A Massachusetts-trained physician of St. Louis, professor in the St. Louis Medical College (Washington University), a founder (1847) and vice-president (1850) of the National Medical Association.

SOURCE: Howard K. Beale, Editor, Annual Report of The American Historical Association For The Year 1930, Vol. 4, The Diary Of Edward Bates, p. 36

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