Westmoreland County PA Archives Biographies.....Fulton, James A. January 8, 1835 

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   JAMES A. FULTON, M. D., of New Florence, and a leading physician of
Westmoreland county, is the eldest of three children and was born in Derry
township, Westmoreland county, Pa., January 8, 1835. His father, Benjamin
Fulton, was born in the same township in 1795, died on July 28, 1859, and was
married to Jane Ayres in 1834. Benjamin Fulton was a son of James Fulton who
settled in Derry township at a very early day. The maternal great-grandfather of
Dr. Fulton married a Miss Hickenlooper and was an emigrant from New Jersey.
James Fulton, one of the pioneer farmers of the county, married Mary Laughrey, a
native of Ireland who came from there in 1772. Abram Fulton (great-grandfather)
was a farmer and married a Miss Guthrie who was a native of Ireland; her family
came to America in 1772 and settled in Sewickley township. Her remains with
others of the family now rest in the Presbyterian grave-yard near Mt. Pleasant.

 Dr. James A. Fulton was principally educated in the Meadville academy, where he
attended 1852 and 1853, afterwards taught school, read medicine for four years
under Dr. J. W. Blackburn of New Derry, and attended his first course of
lectures at Cleveland, Ohio. In 1858 he began the practice of medicine at New
Salem at which he was engaged until the breaking out of the civil war, when he
enlisted in company H, eleventh Pa. Reserves as a private and was in a short
time promoted to first lieutenant of his company. On July 3, 1863, in the battle
of Gettysburg he was severely wounded which caused his discharge for disability
on October 3, 1863. He returned home, soon afterwards entered Jefferson Medical
college, Philadelphia, and remained there during the winter of 1863-4, but on
account of sickness he was not graduated. He took up his practice at New Salem
again and remained there a number of years when he removed to New Florence,
where he now resides. He is a man of fine intelligence, has been a hard worker,
a close student and has succeeded in establishing himself in a paying practice.
He is the examining railroad surgeon for the Pennsylvania company in
Westmoreland county, and is a member of the pension board of this district.

   On December 30, 1865 he was married to Nancy S. Shields, a native of this
county and a daughter of Robert and Mary Shields, of Dclmont. To their union
have been born nine children: Robert H., born September 11, 1868; William W.,
born June 35, 1870; Mary E., born December 26, 1872; Annie E., born October 24,
1874; Jane H., born August 15, 1876; James G., born March 17, 1881; Samuel A.,
born July 2, 1883; Violet B., born September 25, 1885, and Benjamin C., born
September 13, 1888.

   Dr. Fulton is a republican, a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, of
Odd Fellows and is a member of the M. E. church at New Florence.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from
Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania
Compiled and Published by John M. Gresham & Co.
Samuel T. Wiley, Chief Assistant
1890


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