History of Northbridge, (Worcester County) Massachusetts United States of America

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Asa Bullard Biography

Asa Bullard, clergyman, was born at Northbridge, Mass., March 26, 1804, son of Dr. Artemas and Lucy (White) Bullard. He was graduated from Amherst college in 1828, and from the theological seminary at Andover in 1831. He was ordained to the Congregational ministry in 1832, and was made secretary of the Massachusetts Sabbath school society in 1834. This office he held for more than forty years, when he was made honorary secretary. Amherst made him A.M. in 1853. He edited the Sabbath School Visitor, 1834-44, and in 1844-88 The Well-Spring. He published Sunnybank Stories (1863); Children's Album of Pictures and Stories (1867); Children's Book for Sabbath Hours (1875); Fifty Years with the Sabbath Schools (1876), and Incidents in a Busy Life: An Autobiography (1888). He died at Sunnybank, Cambridgeport, Mass., April 5, 1888.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor