Bulkeley was born in East Haddam, Connecticut to an old local family. His father, State Senator Eliphalet Adams Bulkeley, was a descendant of the Reverend Peter Bulkeley, 8 generations removed. Peter Bulkeley was the founder of Concord Massachusetts and sailed to this country from England on the ship Susan & Ellen in May 1635. Morgan Bulkeley\'s mother Lydia-Smith Morgan descended from passengers of the Mayflower more than 200 years prior. \n', '

The Bulkeleys had called nearby Colchester, Connecticut their home and until Morgan\'s death always believed it as such.[citation needed] He was also related to the well known Morgan family through his mother.[citation needed] He was educated at Bacon Academy in Colchester just like his father and his cousins on both sides.[citation needed] In 1846, the Bulkeley family moved to Hartford, Connecticut. Morgan\'s father, Eliphalet Adams Bulkeley, was prominent in the Connecticut Republican Party and helped found the Aetna Life Insurance Company, becoming its first president in 1853. He was also a descendant of the third President of Harvard University, Charles Chauncy. Morgan Bulkeley attended Hartford Public High School and, at age 14, started working at the Aetna sweeping floors for a dollar a day along with his brother, Charles.\n', '

Bulkeley left Hartford to work for his uncle\'s company, H. P. Morgan & Company, in Brooklyn, New York. He was an errand boy in Brooklyn in 1852 and later worked as a salesman. \n', '

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