BIO: George Fulmer, Cumberland County, PA

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania.
Containing History of the Counties, Their Townships, Towns, Villages, 
Schools, Churches, Industries, Etc.; Portraits of Early Settlers and 
Prominent Men; Biographies; History of Pennsylvania; Statistical and 
Miscellaneous Matter, Etc., Etc.  Illustrated.  Chicago: Warner, Beers 
& Co., 1886.
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                                PART II.

             HISTORY OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY. PENNSYLVANIA.

                             CHAPTER XXXIX. 

                        BOROUGH OF MECHANICSBURG.

412  BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES:

  DR. GEO. FULMER, born October 14, 1829, son of Christian and Sarah 
(Pifer) Fulmer, and the oldest practicing physician in Mechanicsburg, 
having located here as a physician in 1853, is a graduate of Jefferson 
College, Philadelphia.  Christian Fulmer, a stone-cutter by trade, died 
in 1841 aged fifty-three, and his widow in 1860 aged seventy-two.  They 
had a family of three sons and two daughters, two living:  Christian 
and George.  The subject of our sketch attended school in 
Mechanicsburg, under Prof. John Hinkle, until he was sixteen years old, 
when he began teaching in this county, continuing in the profession 
until he was nineteen; then read medicine with Dr. P. H. Long, and in 
1853 graduated from Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, after 
which he formed a partnership with his preceptor, Dr. Long, and 
continued that partnership until 1860, when they dissolved, since which 
time Dr. Fulmer has practiced alone.  In 1861 he passed an examination 
at the 

413  BOROUGH OF MECHANICSBURG.

State capital, Harrisburg, and received a certificate of examination 
from Surgeon-General Phellips, signed by Andrew G. Curtin, governor, 
and registered to hold himself in readiness for duty, and, in 1861, was 
assigned to a regiment, Chattanooga, Tenn., but on account of his 
practice and his family, he did not accept the commission.  Dr. Fulmer 
was married, February 18, 1854, to Miss Susan Long, sister of Dr. P. H. 
Long and daughter of Philip and Elizabeth (Springer) Long.  To this 
union have been born five children, three now living:  Emma M. graduate 
of the Irving Female College, married to Dr. M. K. Bowers, Harrisburg, 
Penn.; Robert B. born in Mechanicsburg, Penn., September 18, 1865; and 
Bertie M., residing at home with her parents.  Dr. Fulmer is a member 
of the Lutheran Church.  He is one of the oldest practitioners of 
medicine in Cumberland County.