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The Bullis Book Collection is held by the Macedon Public Library in Macedon located in Wayne County New York. It is a Victorian era collection that ranges in publishing dates from 1614 to 1979. The 6000+ books were collected by three generations of the Bullis family that resided in the town from 1837 - 1979. The first collector was Dr. Abram Bullis who moved to the area in 1837 with his parents, Charles and Eleanor Bullis and younger sister, Amy, sometimes known as Emma. He attended Geneva Medical School (Geneva NY) graduating in 1840. In that year he married Lydia Porter Lapham, daughter of John and Salome Porter Lapham - staunch Quakers. Their first son, John Lapham Bullis, was born in 1841. He also opened his pratice in the hamlet of Pumpkin Hook, Ontario County NY that year. The collection holds many of his medical reference books still. He and his wife Lydia went on to have 6 more children, 5 of which survived. The middle son, Abram, went to college at Cornell and has a mathmatical chair named for him there. His is the second generation that collected books. He had a deep love for all books regarding engineering and math. He also collected many governmental publications and books on history. He married Josephine Breese and they had two children. The eldest, Charlie, was a horticulturalist and a bit of an eccentric. He collected many books on horticulture and supplemented the history book collection. The youngest, Jeanette (Nettie), did not add many books to the collection but made provision that the family library should be placed in the care of a library. The Macedon Public Library received the books after she died in 1979. At that time there were about 10,000 items in the collection. On evening of April 29, 2001, there was an electrical fire in the Macedon Public Library. Approximately 6000 of the books remain and are on display and available for public use in a climate controlled room at the new library (completed in 2003). Since opening in the new building more ephemera from the Bullis family has come into the collection. There now exists letters between family and friends, drawings, poetry written by family members and more items that give insight into the family.