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THOMAS W. BULLITT was born in Jefferson County, May 17, 1838, and is a son of William C. and Mildred Ann (Fry) Bullitt. Both the Bullitts and Frys were early settlers in Kentucky, and are among the prominent families of the State. Alexander Scott Bullitt, the grandfather of subject, was the first lieutenant-governor of the State, and was President of the Second Constitutional Convention; he died about 1816. Subject’s father, Win. C. Bullitt, began life as a lawyer, but on account of bad health had to retire from practice and take up farming. He was a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1849 -50. The subject is the third of four sons living: Hon. Joshua F. Bullitt being the eldest. He was educated in Centre College, at Danville, graduating in 1858. He went to Philadelphia in 1859, studied law, and graduated in 1861 from the Philadelphia law school; remaining there he was admitted to the bar, and in 1862 returned to Louisville. He entered the Confederate army in 1862, in Gen. Duke’s regiment (the Second Kentucky), Gen. Morgan’s Cavalry, and served until the end of war. He was with Morgan in the Ohio raid, but was captured in Kentucky, remaining a prisoner until early in 1865, when he was sent to Richmond for exchange. At the close of the war he began practicing law, and is entirely devoted to his profession. He is a director in the Second National Bank, in the Fidelity Trust and Safety Vault Co., Louisville Abstract and Loan Association, Louisville Southern Railroad Company, Kentucky & Indiana Bridge Co., etc., etc. Mr. Bullitt was married February 21, 1871, to Miss Annie P. Logan, a daughter of Judge Caleb Logan, formerly Chancellor of the Louisville Chancery Court.