The History of the Yakima Valley, Washington, Comprising Yakima, Kittitas and
Benton Counties, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1919, Volume II, page 296

J. ALVA BULL.

J. Alva Bull, one of the leading young farmers living in the vicinity of
Ellensburg, was born in Kittitas county, Washington, September 10, 1891, a son
of Walter A. and Rebecca (Nelson) Bull. The father was born in New York, while
the mother's birth occurred in Norway, whence she came to the new world,
arriving in the Kittitas valley in 1878. Mr. Bull had previously become a
resident of this section of the state in 1869 and as the years passed on he
engaged extensively in farming and stock raising, having seventeen hundred acres
of fine land, which he brought under a high state of cultivation and
improvement, converting the place into productive fields and rich meadow land.
He died in the year 1898 and his widow survives, making her home with her son,
J. Alva. Walter A. Bull had been twice married and had four children by his
first wife and two by his second wife.

J. Alva Bull received liberal educational advantages. He attended the University
of Washington, where he pursued a law course, and in 1913 he took up farming on
his own account by renting the old homestead, which he has since managed. He now
has one hundred and sixty acres planted to hay and grain and he also manages an
additional tract of three hundred and twenty acres not far from the old home. He
is persistent and energetic in carrying on his work, follows the most
progressive methods and by reason of his capability in business and his
undaunted enterprise has won a place among the representative agriculturists of
his section of the state.

On the 24th of December, 1915, Mr. Bull was united in marriage to Miss Margaret
Porter, of Columbus, Montana, and to them has been born a son, John A.
Fraternally Mr. Bull is connected with the Elks Lodge No. 1102, of Ellensburg.
In politics he casts an independent ballot, voting for men and measures rather
than party. He is fond of hunting and indulges in that sport when leisure
permits but the greater part of his time and attention is occupied by his
business affairs and he has won a place among the leading young farmers of
Kittitas county.

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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.