Columbia County OR Archives Biographies.....Fullerton, Robert Sloan March 1, 1824 - 
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Source: History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea, Vol. III, Published 1928, Pages 923 - 924
Author: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company

     ROBERT SLOAN FULLERTON, one of Oregon's honored pioneers, journeyed 
overland to this state in 1852 and here devoted his attention to farming and 
stock raising throughout the remainder of his life. He was born in Pike 
county, Missouri, March 1, 1824, and was a great-grandson of Alexander 
Fullerton, a native of Scotland, who emigrated to America in 1768. Alexander 
Fullerton enlisted in the colonial army under General Washington, was captured 
and was held a prisoner on Long Island for several months. On being finally 
released by the British he was given bread sufficient to sustain him on the 
journey home, but he died a few days after joining his family, for ground 
glass had been mixed in the bread. Thomas Fullerton, son of Alexander 
Fullerton and grandfather of Robert S. Fullerton, was born in 1767 and was 
therefore but a year old when brought by his parents to this country. In 1788 
he married Isabella McCune and they became the parents of eight children, 
three sons and five daughters. The eldest son of this family was Robert 
Fullerton, who was born in York county, Pennsylvania, in 1789 and who became 
the father of Robert Sloan Fullerton. In 1814 he married Jane Scott, a lady of 
Scotch and Irish descent and a daughter of John and Nancy (Rodgers) Scott. To 
him and his wife were born ten children, eight of whom grew to maturity, but 
only three of these married and had children, namely: Robert Sloan, Jane and 
Isabella. The Scott and Fullerton families removed from the Keystone state to 
Iredell county, North Carolina, thence to Kentucky and in 1818 took up their 
permanent abode in Pike county, Missouri. The Fullertons were a very religious 
people, generally affiliating with the Cumberland Presbyterian church. The 
first presbytery of that church west of the Mississippi was held at the home 
of John Scott and Robert Fullerton in Pike county, Missouri, soon after their 
settlement there in 1818.

     Robert Sloan Fullerton, whose name introduces this review, was a young 
man of twenty-six when in 1850 he went to California via Panama. He engaged in 
mining in Eldorado county, that state, until the fall of 1851, when he 
returned to his old home in Missouri. It was in the following year that he 
came overland to Oregon in an immigrant train with Uncle Billy Watts, who 
settled where the city of Scappoose is now located. In 1853 Mr. Fullerton took 
up a donation land claim six miles south of St. Helens, in Columbia county, 
Oregon. A part of this claim was covered with timber though the most of it was 
river bottom overflow land. He built a log house and engaged in farming, 
giving his attention chiefly to raising cattle and hogs. He lived there until 
1871, when he sold out and bought a ranch near Warren, in Columbia county, 
where he was engaged in agricultural pursuits during the remainder of his 
life. He was actively interested in the welfare of the communities in which he 
lived and in the late '50s helped to organize the Cumberland Presbyterian 
church at Scappoose.

     In 1855, at Scappoose, he was married to Miss Almyra Post, who had come 
across the plains in the same train with him. She was born at Preemption, 
Mercer county, Illinois, July 6, 1842, a daughter of John D. and Katherine 
(Shippey) Post. Her father was born in New York state, September 20, 1816, and 
her mother in Meigs county, Ohio, April 11, 1816. Mr. Post died at Portland, 
Oregon, in 1897 and his wife passed away at Bakers Landing, now Linnton, 
Oregon, March 23, 1853. To Mr. and Mrs. Fullerton were born four children, 
namely: Robert Fisher, and William Jolly, both living near Warren, Oregon; 
Mrs. Mary Isabell Grewell, who died in Florida; and Mrs. Emma Irene Duncan, 
who lives near Warren, Oregon.

     Robert Sloan Fullerton was always a stanch champion of education and he 
served as a member of the school board from time to time. His influence was 
ever exerted in behalf of civic, intellectual and moral progress. The 
Fullerton home in Oregon was the meeting place for all Christian gatherings in 
the early settlement of the country north of Portland, Oregon.

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