The Commonwealth of Missouri; A Centennial Record

Portrait and biographical sketch of Thomas Brockway Bullene, or Thomas Bullene, usually referred to as T. B. Bullene, born in Hannibal, New York, in 1828. Description of his career as a merchandiser, starting in Wisconsin with his brother Lathrop Bullene, then moving in 1856 to Iowa and then in 1863 to Kansas City. The business of Coates and Bullene became "the nucleus of the present firm of Bullene, Moore and Emery," changing into the Bullene Brothers with its Lawrence, Kansas, branch store destroyed in the Civil War. It turned into the Bullene Brothers and Emery in 1867 and in 1870, Bullene, Moore and Emery, with a new store building built in 1871 "fronting on Main, Delaware and Eighth streets," then in 1872 technically changed again to Bullene, Moores and Emery, with the joining of another Moore brother. Later became Emery, Bird, Thayer Company.