Thomas Bull Jr. came to the Clintonville, Ohio area in 1812 with his family from Vermont, by way of Worthington. He was the first white settler in the area. Bull purchased about 680 acres in Clinton Township, and bequeathed land to his children when he died in 1823. Bull and his family were Methodists and abolitionists.

The Thomas Bull residence stood on the east side of High Street between Dunedin and Piedmont in Clintonville, Ohio. Some of the information about the house is conflicting, but Nancy Pendleton states that Alonson Bull helped to build the house around 1821 and lived there until the mid-1860s. The local Methodist congregation held services in this house until Thomas Bull’s death in 1823.

from: Clintonville History by Shirley Hyatt http://clintonvillehistory.com/