When John A. Bullis was born in 1842, in Columbia, Herkimer, New York, United States, his father, Joseph Bullis, was 44 and his mother, Hannah Harder, was 46. He lived in Wilmington, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1880.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Historical Boundaries: 1850: Los Angeles, California, United States
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
English (Cambridgeshire): probably a metonymic occupational name for someone employed in a cattle shed, or a topographic name for someone who lived by one, from a shortened form of Middle English bulehus ‘bull house’, from bule, bole ‘bull’ + h(o)us ‘house’.
Latvian: nickname or metonymic occupational name from bullis ‘bull’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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