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BIOGRAPHIES
Source:
Centennial History of City of Newark and Licking County,
Ohio
by E. M. P. Brister
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Vol. II -
Publ. Chicago - Columbus: by The S. J. Clarke Publishing
Co.
1909
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MORGAN FAUSETT
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MORGAN FAUSETT
Source: Centennial History of City of Newark and Licking County,
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Vol. II - Publ. Chicago - Columbus: by The S. J. Clarke Publishing
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ADAM FLEEK
JOHN S. FLEEK |
ADAM FLEEK
Source: Centennial History of City of Newark and Licking County,
Ohio by E. M. P. Brister -
Vol. II - Publ. Chicago - Columbus: by The S. J. Clarke Publishing
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NATHAN QUINN FLEMING
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NATHAN QUINN FLEMING
Source: Centennial History of City of Newark and Licking County,
Ohio by E. M. P. Brister -
Vol. II - Publ. Chicago - Columbus: by The S. J. Clarke Publishing
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JOHN FRY,
who is of that sturdy and aggressive Holland Dutch stock
which is so prominent in the nation's financial circles and
has done much to produce our present advanced state of
civilization, is now carrying on farming and stock-raising
in Franklin township. He was born in Hartford
township, Licking county, Dec. 6, 1842. His
grandfather, Michael Fry, came from Pennsylvania, in
which state he located upon leaving his native land, and
settled on a farm in Franklin township, Licking county, at a
time when much of the surrounding country was in an
undeveloped woodland state. Here he pursued general
farming until he departed this life. Among his
children was Thomas Fry, who was born in the Keystone
state and accompanied his parents to this county, where his
boyhood days were devoted chiefly to assisting his father in
preparing the tract of land for cultivation. Here he
remained, engaged in farming until his death in 1882.
His wife, Ingober Bowers, was a native of this county
where she was united in marriage, and entered into rest in
Franklin township in 1887. She reared a family of six
children, namely: Jacob and Nancy, both
deceased; Sarah, who resides with her brother;
John; Susanna, deceased; and Mary deceased wife
of Jonathan Tavenner.
John Fry was reared on his father's farm where he
spent his boyhood days, assisting in the daily routine of
agricultural life and during the winter seasons acquiring
his education in the district schools. After
completing his studies he settled down on the home place,
where he has since been actively engaged in farming.
He has always devoted his time and energies to tilling the
soil and to stock-raising and has made a study of the soils
and by carefully adapting his crops he has been successful
from year to year in deriving abundant harvests. While
he does not engage in stock-raising to a large extent he
keeps on hand a sufficient number of head of thoroughbred
cattle and sheep to make the investment a paying one and his
tock, being well fed and sleek, generally meet with ready
sale and amply remunerate him for the energy he devotes to
this department of his business. He owns sixty-eight
and a half acres of land, all of which is improved, with the
exception of a few acres which he keeps in timber, and is
provided with every convenience with which to make farming a
paying proposition. On hi place is an excellent
dwelling house together with a substantial barn and other
outbuildings. Mr. Fry's political views have
always been on the side of the democratic party since he is
a believer in the low tariff policies it advocates and,
being of the opinion that its principles, if constantly kept
in vogue throughout the nation, will not only maintain the
original freedom and liberty of its institutions but also
insure its finances from destructive crises and preserve the
permanent prosperity of the country. While he has
never held any local offices he has always favored such
measures as in his opinion were purposed for the general
good of the community.
Source: Centennial History of City of Newark and Licking County,
Ohio by E. M. P. Brister -
Vol. II - Publ. Chicago - Columbus: by The S. J. Clarke Publishing
Co., 1909
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JAMES W. FULTON, a
substantial citizen and progressive agriculturist of
Berlington township, was born near Homer, Licking county,
Ohio, on the 8th day of February, 1853, his parents being
William and Rachel (Carver) Fulton, natives of
Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, and Mary Ann
township, Licking county, respectively. The
maternal grandfather of our subject, James Wiley Carver,
was for several years associated with the Mary Ann
Furnace. William Fulton, whose birth occurred
Jan. 13, 1818, came to Licking county when a young man,
locating west of Homer with his uncle, Robert Fulton,
one of the founders of Denison University. For some
years he traveled around the country, going to Iowa, Indiana
and Pennsylvania in the order named, while later he returned
to Licking county, making the journey on horseback.
Soon afterward, about the year 1850, he was married and took
up his abode in a log cabin on the farm of his uncle,
Robert Fulton. Subsequently he purchased the old
water mill just west of Homer and operated it for several
years in association with Abraham Stamen. He
then turned his attention to general agricultural pursuits,
with which he was connected until the time of his demise,
which occurred Oct. 2, 1896, while his wife had been called
to her final ret on the 22d of May, 1889. He gave his
political allegiance to the democracy and that his fellow
townsmen recognized his worth and ability is indicated in
ten fact that he was chosen to serve in various township
offices, including those of trustee, assessor and land
appraiser.
James M. Fulton was reared under the parental
roof and in the acquirement of an education attended the
grammar and high schools of Homer. When nineteen years
of age he began teaching and for four years devoted his time
to that profession, imparting clearly and readily to others
the knowledge that he had gained. On abandoning
educational work he became connected with agricultural
interests, taking charge of and conducting the home farm.
On the 16th of May, 1889, he was united in marriage to
Miss Clara Dunlap, of Burlington township, and soon
afterward, his parents having removed to Homer, he was left
in charge of the home place. The mother died soon
after her removal to Homer and the father, after three or
four years' residence with two of his daughters in that
town, returned to the old homestead farm to take up his
abode with his son, James W. Subsequent to his
father's death James W. Fulton purchased the home
place of one hundred and six acres and has since been
engaged in its cultivation and improvement, the property
being now a valuable and highly improved tract of land and
bringing to him a substantial income annually.
Unto Mr. and Mrs. Fulton have been born five
children, three of whom still survive: Mary A.,
the wife of Frank Fishner, who resides with Mr.
Fulton and is employed as engineer at the gas pumping
station; Marjorie who is attending the high school;
and James William, a public school student in Homer.
Politically Mr. Fulton is a democrat and has
served for two terms as township trustee and township
assessor, while for six years he has been a member of the
school board, of which he is now acting as president.
His religious faith is indicated by his membership in the
Presbyterian church and he is well and favorably known
throughout the county in which his entire life has been
passed. He has always been found reliable and
trustworthy in all his business dealings, and to his
honesty, industry and economy is due the success which he
has achieved.
Source: Centennial History of City of Newark and Licking County,
Ohio by E. M. P. Brister -
Vol. II - Publ. Chicago - Columbus: by The S. J. Clarke Publishing
Co., 1909
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T. B. FULTON,
a member of the bar since 1875 and practicing at the present
time in Newark, is now associated with his brother,
William D. Fulton, under the firm style of Fulton &
Fulton. He was born in Homer, Licking county, his
natal day being June 11, 1851. His father, William
Fulton, was a native of Pennsylvania, while the mother,
Mrs. Rachel (Carver) Fulton, was born in this county.
The Fulton family is of Irish lineage, while the
Corners came from England. About 1848 William
Fulton removed from the Keystone state to Licking county
and settled on a tract of land near Homer where he followed
the occupation of farming. The maternal grandfather,
James W. Carver, married Miss Mary Livingston
and established his home in the locality in pioneer times.
He had one of the first stove foundries in this county
building and operating it under the name of Mary Ann furnace
in Mary Ann township. At that date nearly all of the
stoves were made by hand as little of the improved machinery
for manufacture was then upon the market. Mr.
Carver afterward purchased a farm near Horner where he
resided until his death, and while residing in this county
he held a number of township offices and in this and other
ways contributed to the welfare and upbuilding of this
section of the state.
Thomas B. Fulton was a student in Granville
University but left that institution in his sophomore year
with the intention of entering West Point to which he had
received appointment under General George W. Morgan.
Ill health, however, obliged him to abandon this plan and
after convalescing from an attack of typhoid fever he began
reading law under the direction of General Morgan who
remained as his preceptor until he was admitted to the bar
in 1875 at which time he became a partner of General
Morgan at Mt. Vernon, Ohio. In the fall of that
year, however, he removed to Newark, where he entered into
partnership relations with J. M. Dennis. During
the period of the trouble over the county clerk's office,
about 1878-79, he was appointed deputy clerk and continued
in that office until the succeeding clerk was elected, when
he resigned and entered into a law partnership with T. E.
Powell, now of Columbus. In that connection he
went to Marysville, Ohio, where he practiced until 1888.
He then went to Las Vegas, New Mexico, and was in the south
for some months, after which he returned to Newark and
formed a law partnership with his brother, William D.
Fulton, under the firm name of Fulton & Fulton,
which is still continued. The firm has a large
clientele and the law business entrusted to them is of an
important character, connecting them with much of the
leading litigation tried in the courts of this district.
In 1897 Thomas B. Fulton was elected city solicitor
of Newark and was reelected in 1899, serving for four years.
In 1906 he received the democratic nomination for common
pleas judge but was defeated with the remainder of the
ticket. He is a member of the Licking County Bar
Association and is regarded as one of the strongest and most
forceful lawyers practicing in Newark. He is now
attorney for the Citizens Building & Loan Association and
concentrates his energies largely upon his work in
connection with the legal profession, although at one time
for a little more than a year he served as cashier of the
People's National Bank of Newark.
On the 1st of June, 1878, Mr. Fulton was united
in marriage to Miss Inez V. Mead of Licking county,
and they have three children, Zoe A., Ned R. and
Winifred. Mr. Fulton holds membership relations
with the Masonic fraternity, the Independent Order of Odd
Fellows and the Knights of Pythias, and enjoys the war
regard of his associates in these organization as well s in
professional and social circles. Strong in his
individuality he never lacks as in professional and social
circles. Strong in his individuality he never lacks
the courage of his convictions, is tolerant in his opinions
of others and is recognized as a man of broad intelligence
and genuine public spirit.
Source: Centennial History of City of Newark and Licking County,
Ohio by E. M. P. Brister -
Vol. II - Publ. Chicago - Columbus: by The S. J. Clarke Publishing
Co., 1909
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W. D. FULTON |
WILLIAM D. FULTON
is practicing at the Licking county bar as a member of the
law firm of Fulton & Fulton. Moreover, he is a
public-spirited citizen concerning whom many tangible
evidences may be given of his interest in municipal affairs
and his co-operation in the general advancement and welfare
of the community, his latest work of this character being in
connection with the Newark library, of which he was the
originator and promoter.
Mr. Fulton is one of the native sons of the
county, his birth having occurred in Homer, May 27, 1863.
He pursued his studies in Olivet College, Olivet, Michigan,
and was graduated from Denison University, Ohio, in 1883,
with the degree of Bachelor of Science. For one year
he was engaged in teaching school and then took up the study
of law in the office of Hon. J. B. Jones, being
admitted to the bar in 1886. He has since been engaged
in practice in Newark and a liberal and growing clientage
has been accorded him. His legal learning, his
analytical mind, the readiness with which he grasps the
point in an argument, all combine to make him a strong,
forceful lawyer, while the public and the profession
acknowledge him the peer of the ablest representatives of
the legal fraternity in Licking county. In 1888 he was
elected city solicitor and the capability with which he
discharged his duties during his first term was indicated in
his re-election in 1890, so that he remained the incumbent
in the office for four years. His fellow townsmen,
recognizing his worth and ability, have frequently called
him to positions of public trust. He served for three
years as city school examiner and was also a member of the
city council from the second ward. He takes a most
active and helpful interest in public affairs and has not
only co-operated in many measures for the general good, but
has instituted various plans and projects whereby Newark has
been greatly benefited. He originated the plan for the
Newark library which was opened in August, 1908. He
has also been a very progressive member of the Board of
Trade and through that avenue has aided largely in securing
the location of a number of factories in this city, thus
promoting its industrial development. He introduced
the bill in the city council for closing the old canal in
the city and the work is being done.
On the 3d of November, 1883, Mr. Fulton was
married to Miss Josephine M. Wintermute of Licking
county, and they have five living children, Bertha,
William D., Martha, Frances and Margaret.
The family is one of prominence and their beautiful home is
the scene of many attractive social functions. Theirs
is one of the finest residences in Newark, and in addition
Mr. Fulton owns much very valuable property including
a number of store buildings, residences, vacant lots and six
hundred and thirty acres of choice land. His
investments in real estate have been judicially made and
they constitute important features in his annual income.
Socially Mr. Fulton is connected with the Elks, the
Woodmen, the Red Men and the Camels. His associates in
these orders find him a generous courteous gentleman who
holds friendship inviolable. He is justly accounted
one of the prominent and representative citizens of Newark
and Licking county. Possessing a broad, enlightened
and liberal mind, his has been an active career in which he
has accomplished important results, contributing in no small
degree to the expansion and material growth of the county,
and from which he himself has also derived substantial
benefit.
Source: Centennial History of City of Newark and Licking County,
Ohio by E. M. P. Brister -
Vol. II - Publ. Chicago - Columbus: by The S. J. Clarke Publishing
Co., 1909
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WILLIAM N.. FULTON.
Macaulay has said that the history of a country is
best told in the lives of its people, and certainly the
record of William N. Fulton forms an important
chapter in the annals of Newark, for he has promoted and
controlled various business interests which have contributed
to the substantial upbuilding of the city. A man of
great natural ability, his success from the beginning of his
residence here has been uniform and rapid and his
advancement is attributable to the fact that he has noted
and improved opportunities that others have passed by
heedlessly, being quick to appreciate that which is worth
while and equally quick in discarding that which is
non-essential.
Mr. Fulton is a native of Westmoreland county,
Pennsylvania, born Jan. 23, 1841. His father,
Robert Fulton was a native of the same locality, and the
family is of Irish lineage, Abraham Fulton, the
great-grandfather of our subject, coming from the north of
Ireland to the new world early in the eighteenth
century. He was accompanied by his wife, Maragaret
Guthrie Fulton, and settled in Westmoreland county,
Pennsylvania, where some of their descendants still live.
The father came to Licking county in 1843 and took up his
abode in Burlington township near Homer. He followed
the occupation of farming and was prominent and influential
in community affairs. For many years he filled the
office of justice of the peace and his decisions, strictly
fair and impartial, "won him golden opinions form all sorts
of people." He voted with the democracy and his ideas
concerning political interests carried weight in the local
councils of his party. He married Keziah Newlon,
also a native of Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, in which
state their wedding was celebrated and their wedding journey
consisted of their removal to Licking county.
Robert Fulton died at the age of fifty-three years,
while his wife survived to the rip old age of eighty-one
years. They had two sons, the brother of our subject
being Henry H. Fulton, who joined the Twentieth Ohio
Infantry and valiantly served until near the end of the war,
when he was killed at Goldsboro, North Carolina.
William N. Fulton, reared on the home farm,
early became familiar with the duties and labors that fall
to the lot of the agriculturist. The country schools
afforded him his educational privileges and in early manhood
he purchased a far near Homer, paying for it with his own
labor. Later, however, he abandoned the plow and
turned his attention to merchandising in Homer, becoming the
proprietor of a dry goods store and also establishing a
lumber yard there. He prospered in his commercial
undertakings and thinking to find a broader field of labor
in Newark, he removed to this city in 1873 and began
purchasing suburban real estate, directing his energies
toward speculative building. He improved much
property, erecting at that time thirty houses and in
addition to his building operations he engaged in the lumber
business. Whatever he has undertaken he has carried
forward to successful completion, for he has learned to make
good use of his opportunities and has ever based his
advancement upon the safe substantial qualities of
unfaltering energy and unabating perseverance.
His fellow townsmen recognizing in him a citizen of
worth called him to public office, entrusting to him the
care of the public funds, when in 1877 they elected him
county treasurer. He served for two terms of two years
each, which is the law limit, and retired from office, as he
had entered it, with the confidence and good will of all.
Mr. Fulton then resumed the pursuits of private
life and in 1882, with others, organized the Peoples'
National Bank, of which Hon. Gibson A. Atherton was
elected president, with Mr. Fulton as vice president.
On the death of Mr. Atherton Mr. Fulton succeeded to
the presidency and continued as the chief executive officer
of that institution for fifteen years, his sound business
judgment and discriminating sagacity being strong elements
in the success of the bank. During the same period
Mr. Fulton was president and Mr. Atherton vice
president of the Advocate Printing Company for six or seven
years. Mr. Fulton was then reelected to the
position of county treasurer and once more served for two
terms, making eight years in all. No other incumbent
in the office has served for four terms and the fact that
Mr. Fulton was called to the office by popular suffrage
four terms was unmistakable evidence of the confidence
reposed in him and the ability with which he discharged his
duties. In 1902 he organized the Licking County Bank,
of which he was elected president, continuing in the
position to his writing. While rendering his county
efficient public service and conducting important financial
interests, Mr. Fulton has at the same time been
extensively and successfully engaged in the lumber business
as exporter of walnut logs, and has likewise been president
of the Pan-American Coal Company. He is a man of
resourceful business ability, looking beyond the exigencies
of the moment to the possibilities and opportunities of the
future and accomplishing what he undertakes by reason of a
strong, determined nature and the employment of modern,
progressive business methods. Moreover he has ever
believed that honesty is the best policy and has shaped his
course in accordance with this old and time-tried maxim, his
business reputation being unassailable.
In 1866 Mr. Fulton was married to Miss Belle
Selby, a native of Homer, Ohio, and a daughter of
Milton Selby, who was also born in Licking county,
while her grandfather, the Rev. Caleb Selby, was a
pioneer Methodist minister of this county. Mr. and
Mrs. Fulton have become the parents of eight children:
Harry S., now of New York; Maud, who
married Dan Bushnell, but both are now deceased;
Jane H., now the wife of Henry Buell; Josephine,
who married James K. Hamill of Newark; Anne,
the wife of John Holloway, of Kentucky; Florence
A., the wife of James R. Fitzgibbon; Robert G., a
civil engineer of Sandusky, Ohio; and Grace.
Mr. Grace is an active and helpful member of the
Second Presbyterian church and has served as one of its
trustees for over thirty-five years. He is a
high-minded gentleman, imbued with the courage of his
convictions, holding steadfastly to what he believes to be
right, and his name is an honored one in financial and
commercial circles.
Source: Centennial History of City of Newark and Licking County,
Ohio by E. M. P. Brister -
Vol. II - Publ. Chicago - Columbus: by The S. J. Clarke Publishing
Co., 1909
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