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William Gaston Bulloch

1815 – 1885

American physician

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Lived 1815 – 1885 (aged 69). William Gaston Bulloch was an ophthalmologist and physician.

William Gaston Bulloch (August 4, 1815 – June 23, 1885) was an American physician. He was eminent in Savannah, Georgia.

Life and career Bulloch was born in 1815 in Savannah, Georgia, to John Irvine Bulloch and Charlotte Glen, daughter of John Glen, the first Chief Justice of Georgia. His siblings were James and Jane. He was a descendant of politician Archibald Bulloch and fellow physician Noble Wimberley Jones.

He graduated Yale College in 1835 and the University of Pennsylvania three years later. He studied for his medical education in Paris for nearly two years, before setting out as a physician in Savannah in 1840. He was noted as an oculist. a member of the Georgia chapter of the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America. They had three children who lived to adulthood: Joseph, Robert and Emma. He also served as an alderman on Savannah's city council.

He was practicing with his son, Dr. Joseph G. Bulloch, in Savannah in 1880.

Death Bulloch died in 1885, aged 69, at his 114 West Liberty Street home in Savannah. He had experienced gastroenteritis for ten days. He was interred in the city's Laurel Grove Cemetery. Bulloch's widow survived him by 17 years and was buried beside him.

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American physician (1815–1885)

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William Gaston Bulloch was born on 4 August 1815.

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William Gaston Bulloch died on 23 June 1885.

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William Gaston Bulloch was an ophthalmologist and physician.

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