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John J. Bullington was born in Fayette County, Illinois, on the 12th of July, 1879, and is a son of John and Ailcy (Dalton) Bulling- ton, who were born in the historic old State of Virginia, where their marriage was solemnized and whence they came to Illinois after the close of the Civil war. In this great conflict John Bullington served as a loyal and valiant soldier of the Confederacy, having been a member of Company K, Thirty-eighth Virginia Infantry, and having served in the positions of colorbearer and sergeant of his regiment. After the war he established his residence in Fayette County, Illinois, where he and his wife still reside and where he has achieved success and independence through his identification with agriculture and stockraising. He owns a valuable landed estate, is still active in the supervision of his farm and has passed the psalmist's span of three- score years and ten, the date of his nativity having been July 12, 1841, and his wife being about four years his junior. They became the parents of thirteen children, of whom eleven are living, John J. having been the ninth in order of birth. Passing his boyhood on the old homestead farm, John J. Bullington attended the public schools of his native county, and thereafter completed a course in the commercial department of Austin College, at Effingham, this state. After his graduation in this institution he completed a two-year literary course in the Indiana State Normal School at Terre Haute, and in preparation for the work of his chosen profession he began the study of law in the office of the firm of Brown & Burnside, of Vandalia, the county seat of his native county. He was admitted to the bar in 1909. He was immediately elected city attorney of Vandalia, and in that place he continued in the general practice of law until June, 1913, save for the time devoted to official service. In October, 1909, he received appoint- ment to the position of stenographer for the Illinois Supreme Court, in June of the following year he assumed the position of secretary to Judge William Farmer, of the Supreme Court, and in June, 1913, he established himself in the practice of his profession at Taylorville, where he maintained a partnership association with Francis S. Gray until November of that year, since which time he has been the pro- fessional coadjutor of James L. Drennan, with whom he is associated in the control of a substantial and important law business. Mr. Bullington has been prominently identified with the affairs of the Illinois National Guard, and he served as captain of Company I, Fourth Illinois Regiment, from 1907 until January, 1914, since which time he has held the office of captain and commissary of this fine regiment of the Illinois National Guard. He is affiliated also with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Modern Woodmen of America, the Knights of Pythias, Loyal Order of Moose, and is now grand paramount ruler of the Mutual Protective Order of Caribou. Mr. Bullington is a member of the Illinois State Bar Association and in politics is found arrayed as a loyal advocate of the cause of the democratic party. On the 23d of August, 1908, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Bullington to Miss Edna L. Easterday, daughter of Luther and Ann Easterday, of Vandalia, where her father died in October, 1914, and where her mother still resides. Mr. Bullington, by reason of his official position in the National Guard, is familiarly known by his title of captain, and he has a wide circle of friends in this part of his native state. He and his wife are the parents of two children- 1 Bernadine, born May 3, 1911 ; and Winston Edward, born January 21, 1913.
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