Osborn Cordy Bullock

Source: Comprising Sketches of Counties, Towns,

Events, Inst.& Persons, Allen Daniel Chandler, 1906.

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Osborn Cordy Bullock, has been prominently identified with the business and civic affairs of the city of Columbus for a quarter century and his

capitalistic interests there are varied and important, while his standing and as a citizen and businessman is unassailable.  He was born in

Buena Vista, Marion County, GA, June 7, 1852, a son of Cordy and Jane Richardson (Coombs) Bullock both of whom were born in Wilkes County,

both of whom are now deceased.  The father was a planter by vocation, rendered yeoman service as a soldier in the Civil War

during the climacteric epoch of the Civil War and died in Marion County in 1865.  Osborn C Bullock was afforded the advantages

of schools in Marion County, where he was reared to maturity.  As a young man he there identified himself with the livestock business,

dealing more specialty with horses and mules, and with this important line of enterprise he was concerned for many years.  During the

greater portion of this period he was a member of the firm of Fletcher and Bullock, which for many years conducted the largest horse

and mule market in this section of the state, often handling as many as 1,500 head per year.  Mr. Bullock retired from this business in 1903,

and in December of the same year became president of the William Beach Hardware Company which position he still retains.  This company

which controls a large wholesale and retail trade is capitalized for $25,000.  He is a director of the Home Mixture Guano Company; and the

Columbus Manufacturing Company; is vice president of Merchants and Mechanics bank; is an interested principal in J B Key & Co,

wholesale and retail grocers; and is also one of the largest planters in this section owning extensive and well improved plantations in both

Chattahoochee and Marion Counties.  He is essentially a businessman he takes a loyal and public spirited interest, in all that concerns

the progress and well being of his home city and state he has never aspired to public office, though he accords to the Democracy the weight

of his influence and direct support.  He is a steward of St Lukes Church Episcopal South, of which his wife is also a devoted member. 

On Dec 11, 1877 Mr. Bullock married was united in marriage to Miss Minnie Drane, daughter of William M and Margaret (Bryant ) Drane,

of Marion County, where she secured her early educational discipline, was supplemented by a course at Wesleyan Female College at Macon,

in which institution she graduated.  Mr and Mrs Bullock have four children:  Floyd D, Drane, Edgar M and Margaret.  Floyd D, the eldest son,

is secretary of the Columbus Manufactured Company.

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