Bull, Norris, Dd

Bull, Norris, D.D.

a Presbyterian minister, was born at Harwinton, Litchfield Co., Conn., Oct. 24, 1790. He entered Yale College when he was in his nineteenth year. .During his college course he was noted for sobriety and diligence. He became a student in Princeton Theological Seminary in 1816, and was licensed to preach by the Columbia Presbytery in 1818. Soon afterwards he went to the western part of New York state, and labored as a missionary until 1821. In 1822 he accepted a call from the Presbyterian Church at Geneseo, where he continued to labor earnestly and effectively until 1833, when he became pastor at Wyoming, and in 1836 at Clarkson. He died at Lewiston, Dec. 7, 1847. See Sprague, Annals of the Amer. Pulpit, iv, 617.