James Stephens Bulloch
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James Stephens Bulloch | |
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| Born | 1793 Savannah, Georgia, U.S. |
| Died | February 18, 1849 (aged 55–56) Roswell, Georgia, U.S. |
| Occupation | Planter |
| Spouses | Hester Amarintha Elliott
(m. 1817; died 1831)Martha Stewart
(m. 1832) |
| Children | John Elliott Bulloch James Dunwoody Bulloch Anna Louisa Bulloch Martha Bulloch Charles Irvine Bulloch Irvine Stephens Bulloch |
| Parent(s) | James Bulloch II Ann Irvine |
| Relatives | Archibald Bulloch (grandfather) William Bellinger Bulloch (uncle) Anna Roosevelt (granddaughter) Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. (grandson) Elliott Bulloch Roosevelt (grandson) Corinne Roosevelt (granddaughter) |
James Stephens Bulloch (1793 – February 18, 1849) was an early Georgia settler and planter. He was a grandson of Georgia governor Archibald Bulloch and a nephew of Senator William Bellinger Bulloch.[1] He was also the maternal grandfather of President Theodore Roosevelt and a great-grandfather of First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, wife of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, her fifth cousin, once removed.
Cotton mills and development of Roswell
James Stephens Bulloch was born in Savannah, Georgia, to a planter family. His parents were Ann (née Irvine) Bulloch and Captain James Bulloch II. He had an elder brother, John Irvine Bulloch, and two younger sisters, Jane and Ann Bulloch.
He was educated to become a planter and learned about managing crops and working with overseers to deal with slave labor.
Bulloch moved his family from Savannah in 1838 to north Georgia to partner with Roswell King in establishing a cotton mill in the piedmont near the fall line. They used water power for their mills. There in what developed as the town of Roswell, Bulloch built Bulloch Hall in 1839 with the labor of African-American slaves and craftsman. Today, his plantation house known as Bulloch Hall has been restored and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Bulloch also developed a plantation in the uplands, where his workers cultivated and processed short-staple cotton, the chief commodity crop. This cotton had been made profitable by invention of the cotton gin, and was planted throughout the piedmont.
