The Biographical Dictionary and Portrait Gallery of Representative Men of Chicago, Milwaukee and the World's Columbian Exposition

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BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY AND PORTRAIT GALLERY.
Life Assurance Company, wishing to develop and enlarge its business, determined to select some young man of acknowledged ability and reputa¬ tion to be at the head of it, and offered to Mr. Bulloch the presidency and treasurership. The State Mutual is a very old company with large surplus, and the highest reputation for conserv¬ atism and strength—one of the most prominent financial institutions of New England. It was not an offer to be declined. Mr. Bulloch accepted it January, 1883, and now holds the offices named. During his administration the assets of the com¬ pany have more than doubled, and the business of the company is being pushed in all directions in a very profitable manner. It has a large business in the principal cities of the West, notably Chicago. A great many of its investments have been made in Chicago in mortgages on improved business property. Most of these have been placed under Mr. Bulloch's supervision. He has had for many years a large acquaintance among Chicago busi¬ ness men, and is well known also socially. His acquaintance and personal relations thus admi¬ rably qualify him to aid in all the work relating to the   Exposition.    His relations  to   many of  the
members of the Chicago Directory are of an in¬ timate personal character, and they have always had his hearty co-operation and enthusiastic sup¬ port from the first session of the Commission as they undoubted-ly will have until the last.
Mr. Bulloch is a member of various literary societies, among them the American Bar Associa¬ tion, the Archaeological Institute of America, the American Antiquarian Society, etc. He is presi¬ dent and treasurer of the State Mutual Life Assu¬ rance Company of Worcester, Massachusetts, director in several banks, railroads and other business corporations.
He is a Democrat in politics and has been from the first, but has but little time, and perhaps in¬ clination, to take an active part in politics. He is the only Commlssioner-at-Large appointed from New England. As chairman of the Committee on Fine Arts Mr. Bulloch has a very important duty to perform in the formation and adniinistra- tion of the Exposition, which his taste and edu¬ cation eminently qualify him to perform.
He married in 1871 Mary Chandler, daughter of Dr. Geo. Chandler of Worcester, and they have three sons, the oldest a student at Harvard College.
HENRY CLAUSSENIUS,
CHICAGO,  ILL.
HENRY CLAUSSENIUS, a prominent busi¬ ness man of Chicago, for many years Ger¬ man consul and now Austrian consul, was born on the first of February, 1825, at Eschwege, Electorate of Hessen—since 1868 province of Hesse-Nassau—kingdom of Prussia, and is the son of Anton Wilhelm Claussenius and Maria Louisa, nee Wagner. His father was a justice of the circuit court at Eschwege a>nd Bischhausen, and died February 5, 1831. His mother was a native of Cassel, and died in 1867. His grand¬ parents were Rev. William Claussenius, of Allen- dorf, and Christian Wagner, of Cassel, court sta¬ tioner of the Elector of Hesse and the King of Westphalia.
After the death of his father, which occurred when he was six years old, his mother was sup¬ ported by a pension, and with him removed to her   home   in   Cassel,   where   he   was   educated
at the expense of his near relatives, all of whom were high officials of the government of Hesse. Among them were William Eicken- burg, presiding judge of the Court of Appeals and William Becher, privy secretary of the treasury.
After receiving his primary education he at¬ tended the Gymnasium and State Seminary, and qualified himself for teaching, to the entire satis¬ faction of his professors. At the close of his studies he was appointed teacher for Bischhausen, receiving a compensation of about one hundred thalers per annum. Owing to his meagre salary he left this position, and became private in¬ structor and companion of Comte de Viomenil, of Rouen, who desired to learn the German lan¬ guage. With him he traveled through Germany, Italy and France, and on leaving the position, in 1847, established a private school at Bischhausen,