Daniel Bulla, eighth child of William and Elizabeth (Hoover) Bulla, was born in the house where he now resides, Wayne 
Township, Wayne Co., Ind., April 13, 1814.  His youth was spent in assisting his father and in attending the 
subscription schools.  In the winter of 1836-‘7 he went to St. Joseph County, Ind.,
returning the next fall.  He then helped his father build a saw-mill, and ran it four years.  He then carried on the 
farm till 1851, when he went to Richmond, and worked in a plow-shop about five years.  March 26, 1857, his mother died,
 and he then moved back to the old homestead.  In 1862 his father died, and he having been appointed executor, settled 
up the estate.  Mr. Bulla was married Feb. 3, 1848, to Caroline Clawson.  Their children are – Andrew J., born Nov. 17, 
1848; Charles Henry, born Jan. 12, 1851; Elizabeth, born Aug. 27, 1855; William Abner, born April 9, 1858.  Mr. Bulla’s 
grandfather, Thomas Bulla, came to America from Ireland, when a young man, and settled in Chester County, Pa., where he 
married Esther Widows, by whom he had twelve children.  In 1784 he moved to Randolph County, N. C.  He owned six or 
seven slaves, but set them free in his will.  William, his oldest son, was born April 14, 1777, and in 1798 married 
Elizabeth Hoover, daughter of Andrew Hoover, of German descent.  In 1801 William Hoover moved to Warren County, Ohio; 
crossed the Ohio River at Cincinnati, at that time only a village.  In 1803 he moved to Montgomery County, ten miles 
north of Dayton, on Stillwater River.  There the family were all sick with the ague, and in the fall of 1806, with two 
others, he followed a section line through a dense wilderness of forty miles to Dearborn, now Wayne County, Ind., where 
he bought land and moved his family to it.  He drove about seventy head of hogs to his new home.  The grain for bread 
for the family had to be taken to Dayton, and for a short time to Eaton, to be ground.  In 1810 Mr. Bulla erected a 
small mill on the Middle Fork of Whitewater River, which was a great accommodation to the settlers.  The same year he 
built the house his son Daniel lives in.  It is 18 x 24 feet in size, every log wild cherry save one sill, which is 
black walnut, and two stories high.  William Bulla’s children were eleven in number – Anna, born Dec. 26, 1799, married 
Evan Chalfant, and in the fall of 1832 moved to St. Joseph County, Ind., where she died March 27, 1849; Elizabeth, born 
Feb. 27, 1801, married Samuel Burgess, and settled one mile southwest of Richmond, where she died, March 26, 1857; 
Thomas P., born March 25, 1804, married Hannah Draper, and in 1832 accompanied his brother-in-law to St. Joseph County, 
Ind., and still resides in South Bend; has been County Surveyor twenty-five years; Andrew, born Feb. 12, 1806, was by 
trade a printer, and published the Western Times, a weekly paper, in Centreville; died Feb. 22, 1832, unmarried; James, 
born Jan. 10, 1808, was a millwright; died July 3, 1861, unmarried; William, Jr., born Feb. 10, 1810, married Mary 
Stephenson and moved to St. Joseph County, Ind., where he died July 2, 1862; David, born Jan. 14, 1812, married Sarah 
Cox, and removed to Louisville, Ky., where he died Aug. 25, 1857; Daniel, born April 13, 1814; Esther, born September 
28, 1816, married John W. League, of Richmond, Ind., Sarah, born Oct. 19, 1818, married David M. Golden, and lives near 
Richmond; John, born Oct. 8, 1821, married Ann H. Crompton, and is a farmer of St. Joseph County, Ind.  William Bulla 
died in his eighty-sixth year, and his wife in her seventy-seventh.  They lived to see Wayne County – which was a 
wilderness at the time of their settlement – the seat of culture and refinement.  In May, 1823, Mr. Bulla went to 
Richmond and while there learned that two Kentuckians had caught a slave, George Shelton, belonging to Samuel Todd.  
He, with some others, rescued the slave, and Mr. Bulla was sued before the Supreme Court at Indianapolis, Judge Parke 
presiding, and was obliged to pay $1,000 for the slave and $500 costs.  The Bulla family have always been Anti-slavery 
Republicans and temperance men.

History of Wayne County, Indiana. Chicago: Inter-State Publishing Co. 1884. Volume 2. Pages 768 to 770.