James Stephens Bulloch (1793-1849)

He was born at Savannah, Georgia, where his uncle built the Bulloch Mansion. His grandfather, Archibald Bulloch, was President of Georgia's Provincial Council and Commander-in-Chief of Georgia's militia. James himself was a stockholder in the Roswell Manufacturing Company and in 1838 co-founded Roswell in Fulton County with his business partner, Roswell King. There, he ran a cotton mill and he also developed a plantation in the uplands processing short-staple cotton. From 1840, he lived at the house he built at Roswell, Bulloch Hall. He was married twice: (1) In 1817, he married Hettie Elliott, and they had two sons (2) In 1832, he married Patsy Stewart (his first wife's stepmother), and they had four children. By his first wife, James was the father of James D. Bulloch who was the Confederacy's chief foreign financial agent and whose funds were allegedly used to assassinate Abraham Lincoln. By his second wife, James was the maternal grandfather of the 26th U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt.