"An Illustrated History of Skagit and Snohomish Counties." Interstate Publishing Company, 1906. p. 819. BULLER BROTHERS is the name and style under which a large bolt cutting and lumber industry is being carried on at Marblemount. The trio compose the firm, Carl P., Wade H. and Richard H. L., are all natives of Pennsylvania, children of Henry and Matilda F. (Clark) Buller, both of whom were born in the Keystone state. The elder Buller enlisted with the Pennsylvania volunteers in the Civil War, serving as a private for three years. He died in Seattle in 1903. The mother of the Buller boys is a remarkable woman and one of strong personality, much of her life being spent in the active management of business. She is a direct descendant of Thomas Clark, who came to the Massachusetts shore in the Mayflower. Until marriage she lived with her parents in Philadelphia and taught school for five years, having obtained a first grade certificate entitling her to be called a "professor," rather than teacher. She came up the Skagit river with her sons in 1889, established the first hotel at Marblemount and continued to manage it for three years. She moved to the place where her sons now live in 1893, after passing two years in Seattle. Three years were spent on the home place then she went to Burlington and conducted a hotel for part of a year, ultimately taking up her residence in Seattle, where she still lives. In 1899, accompanied by her sons, Carl and Richard, she went to Alaska, and she passed two years at Nome. Though a resident of Seattle, she frequently visits her sons at Marblemount and mentally contrasts transportation facilities of the present day with those when she made her first trip up the Skagit, coming by boat to Sauk and by canoe the remainder of the distance to Marblemount. Mrs. Clark-Buller is the author of "Road House Tales," a compilation of stories she heard in the days when she was keeping hotel, also is a lecturer on Socialism, Mental Science and Theosophy. In her early days up the Skagit she held a private school, at which her younger sons were educated and which was also attended by a number of Indians living in the vicinity of Marblemount. The lives of the three brothers have been so intimately associated with that of their mother that a review of her life is almost a review of the lives of her sons. Wade and Richard Buller were the two first white boys on the upper Skagit, and all three brothers later became experts in the open life of the early days in and around Marblemount. For three years they followed canoeing as an occupation. They have prospected in the Ruby Creek district and all through the upper Cascade mountains, also have done a great deal of trapping, the woods being full of all kinds of game and the waters abounding in fish in the early days. The boys are second cousins of Sir Redvers Buller of South African fame. They own 800 acres of land, forty of which are cleared and the rest in valuable timber which they are converting in their mill to commercial uses. Wade and Richard Buller attended the Seattle Seminary for four years, the former graduating from the institution. The influence of the mentality of the mother is seen in the intellectual life of the sons. Politically they are all three Socialists, and in church matters are not bound by creed of the formalities of denominational organization, leaning rather toward "free thinking." They are ambitious in business and hard workers, successful in their management and prominent in the town. They make their homes together, as none has married. Transcriber's additional notes: Census: 1870, June 26; Jefferson Co, PA; Warsaw Pct, p 226, Brookville PO Henry Bullers, 25, PA, farmer, $4000 real estate, $800 pers. prop., parents foreign born Matilda F., 28, PA, keeping house Nora, 2, PA Carl, 8/12, PA, born Oct. (next door John (68) and Adeline (47) Bullers, b ENG) 1900, June 1; Skagit Co, WA; Cascade Pct, p 135 Wade H. Buller, 24, June 1875, PA, PA, PA, single, farmer, owns farm free 1910, April 15; Skagit Co, WA; Cascade Pct, p 78 Carl P. Buller, head, 39, PA, PA, PA, single, hay farmer, owns farm w/mtg. Wade, brother, 33, PA, PA, PA, single, lumber millman Richard, brother, 29, PA, PA, PA, single, lumber millman Dosson Magee, nephew, 24, PA, PA, PA, single, laborer Manuel Zimmer, boarder, 30, MI, GER, France, single, stationary engineer Ethel Brewstar, housekeeper, 21, NE, MY, PA, married 5 yrs, 2 children-1 living 1920, January 28; Skagit Co, WA; Cascade Pct, p 228 Richard H. L. Buller, 37, PA, PA, PA, farmer Ethel W, wife, 32, NE, NE, PA Carl P, son, 8, WA, PA, NE, att. school Russell E, son, 6, WA, PA, NE Richard L, son, 3 8/12, WA, PA, NE Florence L, dau, 1 3/12, WA, PA, NE Phyllis M. Brewster, step dau, 12, WA, WI, NE (next door) Wade H. Buller, 42, PA, PA, PA, farmer Hellen H, wife, 27, SD, WI, NOR Charles H, son, 7, WA, PA, SD Anne M, dau, 5, WA, PA, SD Robert W, son, 1 8/12, WA, PA, SD ******************* Submitted to the Washington Biographies Project in July 2006 by Diana Smith. Submitter has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned above.