Biography of Wesley Fulton, pages 614/615/617.  History of DeKalb 
County, Indiana; B. F. Bowen & Company, Inc., Indianapolis, 1914.



Wesley Fulton



	The subject of this sketch is one of the progressive farmers and 
enterprising citizens of Grant township, DeKalb county, where he has 
made his home for a number of years, being closely associated with its 
development and welfare.  He is a thoroughly practical agriculturist 
and a man of business, and, liked the great majority of successful men, 
has been the architect of his own fortunes.  His fidelity to his 
duties, has never been neglected in acting his part as a worthy son of 
the great American commonwealth.

	Wesley Fulton was born on October 10, 1847, in Fayette county, 
Pennsylvania, and is a son of David and Mary (Knight) Fulton. David 
Fulton was born in Somerset county, Pennsylvania, and was a son of 
James Fulton, who was of Irish parentage, his forbears having come from 
the north of Ireland.  David Fulton was married to Mary Knight, who was 
born in Somerset county, Pennsylvania, the daughter of James Knight and 
wife.  David Fulton remained in Pennsylvania about four years after his 
marriage, then spent about nine years in Perry county, Ohio, after 
which he returned to Fayette county, Pennsylvania, to care for his 
parents, who were getting old.  He remained there about nineteen years 
and in 1865 went to Carroll county, Illinois, where he bought a farm 
and spent the remainder of his life there, his death occurring in 
February, 1884.  He was survived a number of years by his widow, who 
died in 1898 on the old farm in Illinois.  David Fulton was a life-long 
farmer and was also a local preacher in the Methodist Episcopal church.  
He was prominent in the local public affairs of the communities where 
he lived both in the East and in Illinois.

	 Wesley Fulton lived under the parental roof until 1869, when, at 
the age of twenty-two years, he was married and then began farming for 
himself near his home.  He conducted agricultural operations about six 
years and then moved to Lucas county, Iowa, where he bought a small 
farm, on which he lived until the death of his wife in 1880. About 
1882, or the year following, Mr. Fulton sold his Iowa property and came 
to Indiana, where he was again married, and he then engaged in farming 
on the place where he now lives south of Waterloo.  He is the owner of 
sixty-five acres of good land, which has engaged his undivided 
attention and which he has developed into one of the choice 
agricultural homesteads of the section of the county in which he lives.  
His life here has been characterized by persistent and wisely directed 
industry, his efforts being rewarded with a degree of success 
commensurate with his efforts.  He has a good set of farm buildings, 
while all the operations of the farm are given his personal 
supervision, and in the conduct of his affairs he has been guided by 
the soundest of judgment which has characterized him in everything to 
which he has given attention.

 	In 1869 Mr. Fulton married Elizabeth Dorns, who was born in 
Franklin county, Pennsylvania, the daughter of John Dorns.  Her parents 
moved to Fulton county, Illinois, when she was but a child, and there 
she lived until about a year before her marriage, when she located in 
Carroll county, Illinois.  Her death occurred in 1880, she leaving 
three children, namely: Newton A., Cora B. and Mary L. Newton, who was 
born in December, 1874, now lives at Danbury, Connecticut, where he is 
engaged in pedagogical work, being superintendent of the commercial 
school. He has taught six or seven years in New York and Connecticut.  
Cora B. became the wife of Oscar Kent, and they live on a farm near 
Alma, Nebraska. By her second union she is the mother of three 
children; Mary L. is the wife of Fred Lampman, of Milledgeville, 
Carroll county, Illinois, and they have three children, Ethelyn, Margie 
and a baby boy.  Mr. Fulton’s second marriage was to Mrs. Sarah A. 
(Stroh) Dunn, the widow of the late William Dunn.  She was born in 
Greensburg, Summit county, Ohio and is a daughter of John and Catherine 
(Dice) Stroh.  She as brought to DeKalb county when only nine months 
old by her parents, who located on the northern edge of Union township, 
and there she was reared and received her education, her marriage to 
Mr. Dunn occurring on January 1, 1865. After that event they lived on 
the Dunn homestead in Grant township until Mr. Dunn’s death in 1871, he 
leaving three children, namely: Mrs. Ettdessie Goodwin, deceased; John 
Dunn, of Waterloo, and William Dunn, of Grant township.  To Mr. 
Fulton’s last union has been born one child, Zella G., who is now the 
wife of Ernest Cole, of Toledo, where he has a good position with the 
street car company.  Religiously, Mr. and Mrs. Fulton are members of 
the Methodist Episcopal church, in the prosperity of which they are 
deeply interested and to the support of which they contribute of their 
means.  Mr. Fulton is one of the leading citizens of his community and 
enjoys in a marked degree the confidence and esteem of his neighbors 
and friends throughout Grant township.  His career has been eminently 
honorable and all who know him speak in high terms of his many sterling 
qualities and characteristics.



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