Federick Childs Pullman, born in Chicago in 1926, died April 2, 2005, in Newport Hospital. He grew up in Lake Forest, IL, and lived there until the 1980s when he moved to Elko, NV, and later to Ross, CA, before he and his wife Alice settled in Little Compton, RI. He attended Pomfret School from which he was graduated in 1945. After two years in the Army Air Corps as a member of the occupation forces in Germany, he attended Williams College, graduating in 1950. During his Illinois years, Mr. PUllman was a commercial lending officer and division manager for The Northern Trust Company in Chicago. He was also active in civic affairs, principally through his memberships on the boards of the Morton Arboretum and the Brookfield Zoo. In Nevada he was an owner and managing partner of a large cattle ranch just west of Elko. There he continued to indulge in his passions for wildlife and land conservation as a member of the Nevada Advisory Committee of the Great Basin office of The Nature Conservancy and as Chairman of the Multiple Use Advisory Committee for the Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, Elko District. Mr. Pullman was a member of two of Chicago’s oldest founding families, the Pinkertons, through his greatgreat-grandfather, Allan Pinkerton, founder of the Pinkerton Detective Agency and the Pullmans of railroad sleeping car fame. In Rhode Island Mr. PUllman was an active member of Trinity Church in Newport, the Society of Colonial Wars, the Newport Reading Room and the Laurel Brook Club. He was the author of two books, the autobiographical JULIE EAT YOUR PRAIRIE CHICKEN, and a novel, THE SONS OF THUNDER. When he died, he was working on a third novel about prairie grouse of the Sand Hills of Nebraska. Mr. Pullman is survived by his wife Alice; his daughters Allie McMorrow of New Jersey and Julie Wilson of Utah, a son Michael of Utah; and four grandchildren. A memorial service will be held at 4 p.m. at Trinity Church in Newport, RI, on Thursday, April 14, 2005. Memorial gifts may be made to the Endowment Fund of Trinity Church, Newport, RI, and The Nature Conservancy, 1815 North Lynn Street, Arlington, VA 22209.
