Biographies For Muscatine County Iowa 1889

Source: Portrait and Biographical Album, Muscatine County, Iowa, 1889, page 299
GEORGE W. FULLIAM, M.D., one of the oldest practicing physicians of Muscatine, was born in Shelby County, Ky., on the 24th day of March, 1822, and is a son of Bland and Elizabeth ( Ballard ) Fulliam. The father was a native of Virginia and served in the War of 1812, and the mother was born in Tennessee, but was reared in Kentucky. They were the parents of eight children, two sons and six daughters, two of whom are living : George W. of our sketch; and Sarah, who wedded a Mr. Thomas.

Our subject was reared to manhood in his native State, and when fifteen years of age began the study of medicine. In 1839 he went to Sangamon County, Ill., and while there carried the chain for Abraham Lincoln on a surveying trip. He subsequently attended the Cincinnati Curtis Medical College, from which he was graduated in the spring of 1842, in the Eclectic and Botanic system, and afterward attended the Pennsylvania Eclectic College, being graduated in the class of " 48. He came to Iowa in 1843, locating at Wapello, Louisa County, where he stayed but a short time, when, through the influence of J. H. Parvin and Judge Hastings, he came to Muscatine, since which time he has been closely connected with the history of the city.

Dr. Fulliam was married in 1850, becoming the husband of Miss Elizabeth Morford, a daughter of Thomas Morford, one of the pioneers of this county, and to them were born two children: Sultana, wife of Martin Bartlett, of Muscatine; and Eliza, wife of Rev. F. Bond, a methodist minister of Philadelphia, Pa. The death of Mrs. Fulliam occurred in 1853, and he subsequently wedded Elizabeth Vanatta, by whom he had the following children : Edward B., a practicing physician of Muscatine; John W., who is engaged in farming; Stonewall J., also a farmer; Jefferson D., a physician of Muscatine, Iowa; Belle, a graduate of the High School of Muscatine; and Etta, the youngest. In is political sentiments the Doctor is a Democrat. He came to this country when its broad and beautiful farms formed a part of the unbroken wilderness or uncultivated prairie. He has not only witnessed but participated in the developement that has placed Muscatine County on a par with any in the State, and has aided largely in advancing its interests and enterprises.

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