For
Muscatine County Iowa
1911
| Biographies For Muscatine County Iowa 1911 | |
Source: History of Muscatine County Iowa, Volume II, Biographical, 1911, page 507
HAMILTON HAVELOCK FULLERTON....Industry and sound judgment, combined with foresight, have established Hamilton Havelock Fullerton to become one of the representative farmers of Seventy-six township. He was born in Cumberland county, Nova Scotia, Canada, July 17, 1861, and is a son of James Edward and Cecelia Anne ( Sexton ) Fullerton. The father was born in the same county and in 1865 removed to Minnesota, where he lived for eighteen years, at the close of which period he settled in the city of Montevideo, that state. There he passed away in 1904. He devoted his life to farming interests. The mother of our subject was a native of Washington county, Maine, and the parents were married in the Pine Tree state. She departed this life in 1891. There were six children in the family : Ida and Ada, deceased ; Henry A, now a farmer in Minnesota ; Hamilton H.; Asa B., of Muscatine ; and George D., of Wisconsin.The subject of this review was brought by his parents to Minnesota when he was four years old and was educated in the common schools of that state. He grew up on a farm under the loving care of kind parents and became as a boy well acquainted with the various operations connected with agriculture and stock-raising. At twenty-six years of age he was attracted to the state of Iowa and worked on the farm of Phillip Wagner, of Letts. Later he bought eighty acres of land in Minnesota, which he sold, and eight years ago located on his present farm of eighty acres on section 29, Seventy-six township. Here he raises stock and grain and has met with excellent success in his various undertakings.
In 1888 Mr. Fullerton was united in marriage to Miss Cora E. Hidlebaugh, a native of Louisa county, Iowa, and to them seven children have been born : one who died in infancy ; Edna M., now the wife of Floyd Holliday, of Louisa county ; Vinnie B. and J,. E., both at home ; Arthur R., deceased ; Ida M., at home ; and Mildred E.
Mr. Fullerton belongs to that class known as self-made men, who are able to master difficulties and win a goodly measure of success. In his wife he has found a worthy assistant, who has been to hin a loving companion and to her children a devoted mother. He is affiliated with the Order of Odd Fellows and he and his wife are identified with the Rebekahs. Politically he is in sympathy with the democratic party and evidence of the confidence reposed in him by his neighbors and friends is presented by the fact that for four years he served most acceptably as assessor of Seventy-six township.
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