Background
He was a grandson of Georgia governor Archibald Bulloch and a nephew of Senator William Bellinger Bulloch. James Stephens Bulloch was born in Savannah, Georgia to a planter family.
He was a grandson of Georgia governor Archibald Bulloch and a nephew of Senator William Bellinger Bulloch. James Stephens Bulloch was born in Savannah, Georgia to a planter family.
He was educated to become a planter and learned about managing crops and working with overseers to deal with slave labor.
He was also the grandfather of President Theodore Roosevelt and the great-grandfather of First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. He had an elder brother, John Irvine Bulloch, and two younger sisters, Jane and Ann Bulloch. Marriage and family Cotton mills and development of Roswell They used water power for their mills.
There in what developed as the town of Roswell, Bulloch built Bulloch Hall in 1839 with the labor of African-American slaves and craftsman.
Bulloch also developed a plantation in the uplands, where his workers cultivated and processed short-staple cotton, the chief commodity crop. This cotton had been made profitable by invention of the cotton gin, and was planted throughout the piedmont.
Bulloch died in 1849. According to the 1850 Slave Schedules, his widow Patsy Bulloch still held 31 slaves to work their plantation.