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C. ORSMOND BULLIS. - One of the commanding figures in the agricultural life of Imperial County is C. Orsmond
Bullis, of El Centro. He has made steady progress towards prominence and is today largely connected with the agricultural
interests of Imperial County. He is associated with H. H. Timken, the famous roller bearing man, as secretary treasurer
and manager of the Timken Ranch Company. This million dollar concern owns four thousand acres of highly cultivated
land, and has other financial interests in Imperial County. The Timken Ranch Company is numbered among the most
prosperous and enterprising concerns in California. The management of its interests here stands high among the
far sighted, energetic men who are rendering such material assistance in developing and advancing the agricultural
prosperity of this section of California. Mr. Bullis has been and is today in a large measure instrumental in making
that concern what it is, one of the most flourishing and substantial ranch companies in the state. He was born
at Sheldon, Iowa, January 10, 1883, a son of Charles Henry and Mary L. (Barrett) Bullis, both deceased. Mr. Bullis
grandmother, on his father's side, was Lydia P. Lapham. The Lapham family has been one of prominence and influence
in America since the colonial epoch in our national history. The family genealogy dates back to John Lapham, who
was born in 1635 and is of English descent. Among his descendants many notables were in the family, and among the
more recent members may be mentioned Susan B. Anthony and Hetty Green. C. Orsmond Bullis acquired his education
in the public and high schools of Sheldon, Iowa, graduating from the latter in 1899. He entered the Ohio Wesleyan
University and received the B. A. degree in 1913. After several years of active business life he again entered
college in 1911 and graduated with the class of 1912, Yale College. He took a short farm course in Cornell University.
During his early business career he was identified with the International Harvester Company and later with the
loan department of the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, at its Sheldon, Iowa,
office. After being associated with this concern for some time he accepted a position as cashier in the freight
department of the C., St. P., M. & O. Ry. of the Northwestern Line at Sheldon, Iowa. He was afterwards made
assistant agent at Mitchell, South Dakota, and later chief clerk to the general freight agent at Sioux City, Iowa.
After three years Mr. Bullis severed his connection with the railroad with which he had filled these positions
with marked ability. From 1907 to 1911 he engaged in the real estate business and at the same time managed his
own farm interests at Benson, Minnesota. From the fall of 1912 to 1914 he was identified with the San Diego Securities
Company of San Diego, California, after which he became Imperial Valley loan agent for H. H. Timken. When the Timken
Ranch Company was organized in 1915 he was made secretary treasurer and manager. Fraternally he is a member of
the Knights of Pythias Lodge and the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity. He has recently been appointed a member of the
farm labor committee of the State Council of Defense.
From:
The History of Imperial County, California
Edited by: F. C. Farr
Elms and Franks, Publishers
Berkley, California 1918
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