The History of the Yakima Valley, Washington, Comprising Yakima, Kittitas and
Benton Counties, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1919, Volume II, page 164

ROY P. BULLAN.

Roy P. Bullan is actively identified with farming interests in Yakima county as
manager of the Bullan estate. He was born in Crookston, Minnesota, on the 26th
of April, 1885, a son of Jesse P. and Maria A. (Tubbs) Bullan, who were natives
of Michigan and of New York respectively. They removed to Minnesota in 1882 and
the father was there engaged in farming until 1901, when he made his way to the
Pacific northwest, settling in Yakima county, where he purchased twenty-five
acres of land two miles west of the city of Yakima on Nob Hill. He planted his
land to fruit trees and after a time sold thirteen acres of his property. In his
fruit-raising interests he met with success, having been very careful in the
selection of his nursery stock and in the care of his trees and the preparation
of the soil. He was a man of excellent business ability and of unfaltering
energy. At the time of the Civil war, however, he put aside all business and
personal considerations and responded to the country's call for troops. He was
living at that time in Wisconsin and he joined Company A of the Third Wisconsin
Cavalry, with which he served from 1861 until 1865, participating in a number of
hotly contested engagements and proving his loyalty and valor on various
southern battlefields. He died on the 19th of September, 1917, having for a
number of years survived his wife, who passed away on the 21st of July, 1904.
Both were consistent members of the Methodist church and their sterling worth
gained for them the high regard, confidence and good will of all with whom they
were brought in contact.

To Mr. and Mrs. Bullan were born seven children: Edith, who died at the age of
two years; Eva M., the wife of E. B. Himmelsbach, of Yakima county; Clara E.,
the wife of E. E. Hanna, deceased; Mamie A., living on Nob Hill, who became the
wife of A. W. Brewer, who was killed in a street car accident; Russell J.; Ruby
E., at home; and Roy P., of this review.

The last named acquired a public school education and became an active
assistant of his father in the work of the ranch. He soon familiarized himself
with the best methods of tilling the soil and caring for the trees as well as
the harvesting of the crop and placing it upon the market and since his father's
death he has acted as executor of the estate. He is an alert, energetic and
progressive young business man and his labors have brought him substantial
success.

Mr. Bullan is a member of the Grange and is interested in the work of that
organization for the dissemination of knowledge that is of benefit in promoting
the agricultural and horticultural development of the state. His political views
are in accord with the principles of the republican party and his religious
faith is that of the Methodist church.

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Submitted to the Washington Bios Project in December 2007 by Jeffrey L. Elmer.
Submitter has no additional information about the subject of this article.