From History of Walworth County Wisconsin by Albert Clayton Beckwith, Vol. II, 
Publ. 1912 - Page 929-931
 
ARTHUR GEORGE BULLOCK.  The gentleman whose name initiates this paragraph is 
one of the worthy native sons of Walworth county, and we are glad to give our 
readers a brief outline of his life record, for he is deemed eminently worthy 
of representation along with the best and most industrious citizens of the 
locality embraced by this work, owing to the fact that he belongs to the 
energetic and enterprising class that has contributed to the later-day success 
of this favored section of the great Badger commonwealth.  He enjoys 
distinctive prestige in financial circles, his practical intelligence, mature 
judgment and sound business sense winning for him the confidence and good will 
of all with whom he has come into contact.
 
Arthur George BULLOCK, the present efficient assistant cashier of the First 
National bank of Lake Geneva, was born in this city on February 14, 1877, and 
he has been content to spend his life right here at home.  He is the son of 
John and Lavinia (BARKER) BULLOCK, both born in Staffordshire, England, and 
there they grew up and were married.  The father was a natural artist.  About 
1859 he emigrated to America, locating in Philadelphia.  He had been 
apprenticed as a potter in his native country, having lived where nearly 
everyone was interested in pottery work.  However, his heart was in oil 
painting, and he became an artist of wide range of subject and style, 
portrait, landscape and interior views.  He came of an excellent old family.
 
In Philadelphia John BULLOCK began working at Photography, engaged in making 
daguerreotypes, photography being then in its infancy.  He owned one of the 
first cameras in the United States made for enlarging pictures.  During the 
Civil war he built up an enormous photographic business, employed seven 
operators taking sittings, and took in money in sums beyond his wildest 
expectations.  He later moved to Chicago, where he remained until the great 
fire in the autumn of 1871, his studio being totally destroyed, including all 
his paintings, a collection covering many years; his home, too, was burned.  
In the spring of 1872 he came to Lake Geneva to make paintings of the 
beautiful scenery and was so delighted with the lake district and the village 
that he brought his family and here made his permanent home, and here he 
maintained a photograph gallery for many years and also painted portraits.  
But he was of too artistic a temperament to make money by it, having 
frequently made fine paintings and then refused to sell them, loving them even 
as his own children.  He was truly a genius and his work was highly praised by 
critics.
 
To John BULLOCK and wife nine children were born, of whom Arthur G., of this 
sketch, was the youngest.  Three died in childhood, the others are: Mrs. Ida 
MOZINGO, Mrs. Lucy MILLER; William, who succeeded his father in the 
photographic business, followed the same until his death in January 1906; Mrs. 
Anna McGRAW, who was born in England, and now lives in Chicago; Mrs. Rosa 
ROWLEY also lives in Chicago.  The mother of these children passed to her rest 
in 1898.
 
Arthur G. BULLOCK began life for himself at a very early age.  When fourteen 
years old he began working in Arnold's drug store, while attending school.  In 
the fall of 1895 he went to Chicago to take a course in the Northwestern 
University, in the pharmacy department; by the following January he took 
typhoid fever which resulted in poor health for some time.  In February 1897, 
he accepted a position in the First National Bank at Lake Geneva, this county, 
as bookkeeper.  He did his work well at all times, and was promoted through 
years of service, and in the fall of 1903 he was made assistant cashier, which 
position he has held ever since, discharging his duties in an able and 
acceptable manner, satisfactory to the stockholders and patrons of the bank.
 
Politically, Mr. BULLOCK is a Republican and has long taken an active interest 
in public affairs.  He was appointed city clerk in 1905 to fill an unexpired 
term, and he has been elected four times since, proving the confidence which 
the people repose in him.  The books have been exceptionally well kept, 
according to those in position to know.
 
Mr. BULLOCK was married in 1906 to Helen MOORE, daughter of Frank S. MOORE, a 
sketch of whom appears elsewhere in this work.  The subject and wife have one 
little son, Frank Arthur.
 
Mr. BULLOCK is first assistant fire marshal of the Lake Geneva fire department 
and he was also treasurer oat one time.  He has been connected with the 
department for a period of fourteen years, and he was in the tournaments when 
the department was winning its state championships.  He is a member of the 
Knights of Pythias, having been thirteen years in this lodge, and he is now 
master of the exchequer and has been representative to the grand lodge for six 
years.
 
The subject and wife have a beautiful home, containing many of the beautiful 
paintings of John BULLOCK, and this hospitable home is frequently the 
gathering place for the many friends of the family.  There is a lake in 
northern Wisconsin that John BULLOCK found while on a sketching tour, which 
was not shown on the United States survey and unnamed.  It was named Lake 
Lavinia after his wife and it is still known by that name.
 
Submitted by Carol