Bulloch, James Stephens, 1793-1849

Bulloch was one of the founders of Roswell, Georgia. His house, Bulloch Hall is a landmark in the city.
His daughter Mitte was the wife of Theodore Roosevelt of New York. The two were married at Bulloch Hall. Mittie and Theodore's son Teddy was the 26th President of the United States.

James Stephens Bulloch (1793 – February 18, 1849) was an early Georgia settler and planter. Bulloch was a grandson of Georgia governor Archibald Bulloch and a nephew of Senator William Bellinger Bulloch.[1] He was also the maternal grandfather of President Theodore Roosevelt and a great-grandfather of First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, wife of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, her fifth cousin, once removed.

Life and career
James Stephens Bulloch was born in Savannah, Georgia to a planter family. His parents were Ann (née Irvine) Bulloch (1770–1810) and her husband, Captain James Bulloch II (1765–1806). He had an elder brother, John Irvine Bulloch, and two younger sisters, Jane and Ann Bulloch.

He was educated to become a planter and learned about managing crops and working with overseers to deal with slave labor.

Cotton mills and development of Roswell
Major Bulloch moved his family from Savannah in 1838 to north Georgia to partner with Roswell King in establishing a cotton mill in the piedmont near the fall line. 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. Today, his plantation house known as Bulloch Hall has been restored and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

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.

Personal life
The younger James Bulloch first married Hester Amarintha "Hettie" Elliott (1797–1831), a daughter of Senator John Elliott and Esther Dunwoody, on December 31, 1817. Together, they had two sons:

Through his daughter Martha, he was the maternal grandfather of Theodore Roosevelt,[9] the future president, and Elliott Bulloch Roosevelt. He was also a great-grandfather of socialite Alice Lee Roosevelt and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt (wife of President Franklin D. Roosevelt).