Fulton, Charles Jacobs

CRAIL, FULTON, MINEAR, STICHTER

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A Narrative History
of
The People of Iowa
with
SPECIAL TREATMENT OF THEIR CHIEF ENTERPRISES IN
EDUCATION, RELIGION, VALOR, INDUSTRY,
BUSINESS, ETC.
by
EDGAR RUBEY HARLAN, LL. B., A. M.
Curator of the
Historical, Memorial and Art Department of Iowa
Volume IV
THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY, Inc.
Chicago and New York
1931

CHARLES JACOBS FULTON. Of the older alumni of Parsons College, Charles J. Fulton is one who has kept most of his business associations and activities centered around Fairfield, and has been prominently interested in the old school.

Mr. Fulton was born in Jefferson County, Iowa, January 27, 1860, son of
Joseph Warren and Sarah E. (Minear) Fulton. His parents were born in Ohio, and his father was brought out to Iowa as early as 1843. The Fultons were among the earliest settlers in Jefferson County.

Charles J. Fulton was an Iowa farm boy, attended country schools, and in 1877, when he was seventeen years of age, entered Parsons College. He remained there, completing the classical course in 1883, and had his first connection with newspaper work as editor of the college paper. However, after graduating he went back to his father's farm and had a practical affiliation with the agricultural interests of the county until 1891. In that year he bought an interest in the Louden Machinery Company, and was secretary and treasurer of the corporation until 1920. He gave up his active connections with this business on account of ill health. He is now vice president of the Fairfield Ledger Company, publishing the leading newspaper of Jefferson County.

Mr. Fulton was mayor of Fairfield from 1903 to 1907 and was again chosen to that office in 1920. In 1908 he was elected a member of the State Legislature, serving two terms, and for the past eight years has been a member of the Iowa State Senate. He has served on both the city and county school boards, and from 1892 until 1930 served as secretary of the Public Library Board of Fairfield, of which he is now president. He is a trustee and secretary of the board of Parsons College, and in many ways has been able to promote the interests of his alma mater. During the World war he was on the exemption board and was president of the Fairfield Chautauqua Association from 1904 to 1917. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, Independent Order of Odd Fellows and B. P. O. Elks.

Mr. Fulton married, December 14, 1898, Miss Herminie H. Stichter, of Washington County, Iowa. Their children are Charles C., who has charge of the Government laboratories at Omaha; Mrs. Katherine Fulton Crail, of Los Angeles; and
Miss Susan E., of Fairfield.

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