Francis M. Fults
 

Francis M. Fults, of section 30, Withee Township, Clark County, was born in Dodge County, Wisconsin, February 28, 1849, the son of Joseph and Emeline (Lawrence) Fults, natives of the State of New York. They had eight children: Sevilla, now Mrs. Boardman; Francis, our subject; Alonzo, Elmer, Wesley, Austin, Ida and Alden. The father went to Idaho with Captain Fisk's expedition in 1864, and has not been heard from since 1865, and is supposed to be dead. The mother now lives on the Pembina Mountains, Cavalier County, North Dakota, as do all the children except the two eldest.

Francis M., the subject of this sketch, went with his parents to Dodge County, Minnesota, in 1855, where he was reared on a farm, and received a limited education, as the country was then new and inhabited by Indians and wild animals. He has hunted a great deal, killing deer, bear, wolves, lynx, wild cats, etc. He was engaged in farming there until the spring of 1873, when he came to his present farm, which was then covered with timber. Since that time he has worked in the woods nearly every winter, has driven logs several springs, and worked on the farm in the summers. He owns eighty acres of good land, sixty of which he has since cleared.

Mr. Fults was married October 6, 1871, to Laura Kern, who was born in Boone County, Indiana, April 16, 1857, the daughter of Jesse A. (deceased) and Mary E. (Beck) Kern; the father was a native of Nicholas County, Kentucky, and the mother of Indiana. Mr. and Mrs. Fults had four children, three now living, namely: Jesse E., born January 16, 1873; Richard, January 25, 1878; and Walter M., February 7, 1880. One daughter, Core E., born August 10, 1875, died March 3, 1877. Mr. Fults has served as School Treasurer two or three terms, and is a Democrat politically.
 

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Source: "Biographical History of Clark and Jackson Counties, Wisconsin," published by The Lewis Publishing Co., 1891, Page 272 and 273