George H. Fulford, M. D. Biography


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	GEORGE H. FULFORD, M. D., one of the distinctively representative 
physicians and surgeons of the state, being actively engaged in the 
practice of his profession in the city of Sioux Falls is a native of the 
state of New York, having been born in Chittenango, Madison county, on 
the 18th of July, 1854, and being a son of Rev. Daniel and Clara A. 
Fulford. His father was a clergyman of the Methodist Episcopal church 
and a member of the northern New York conference. He was born in England 
and accompanied his parents to America when a lad of fourteen years, his 
wife having been born in the state of New York. He was a man of ripe 
scholarship and noble character and accomplished a goodly work in his 
high calling. Dr. Fulford received his early education in the public 
schools of the various towns to which his father's vocation called him, 
through the itinerant system of the church of which he was a clergyman, 
and our subject was thus reared in a dozen or more towns in his native 
state. In 1872 he was graduated in the Ogdensburg Commercial College, 
and in 1876 was graduated in Ives Seminary, a literary and collegiate 
institution at Antwerp, New York, winning the gold medal offered for the 
best development in scholarship and deportment in that year. During the 
session of 1876-7 the Doctor attended the Syracuse University, and then 
entered the school of medicine of Boston University, where he completed 
the prescribed three years' course and was graduated as a member of the 
class of 1880, receiving his degree of Doctor of Medicine. He always 
took delight in his studies, which he never found irksome, even as a 
boy, and his early desire was to become a locomotive engineer, but 
before his graduation in Ives Seminary he had determined to prepare 
himself for the profession in which he has met with so notable success. 
During the winter term of 1874-5 he taught in the public schools of 
Pamelia, New York. In 1888-9 he took a full postgraduate course in the 
New York Polyclinic, and in 1893 farther fortified himself for the work 
of his profession by a clinical course in Chicago. He began the practice 
of his profession in New Haven, New York, in 1880, and two years later 
removed to Henderson, that state, where he continued in practice until 
December, 1885, when he came to Sioux Falls, arriving here the day 
before Christmas. He has here built up a very large and lucrative 
practice and is held in high regard in professional, business and social 
circles. He has been very successful in a financial way since casting in 
his lot with the state. In politics the Doctor is a stanch advocate of 
the principles of the Republican party, and was nominated for the office 
of county coroner in 1898, but met defeat with the balance of the 
ticket. He and his wife are valued members of the First Methodist 
Episcopal church, of whose board of trustees he has been a member for 
the past seventeen years, while in 1886-7 he was treasurer of the 
church, as was he also from 1899 to 1901, and in 19O2-3 he was treasurer 
of the building fund of the church. He has been identified with the 
American Institute of Homeopathy since 1893, with the South Dakota State 
Homeopathic Medical Society since 1892, and was president of the same in 
that and the following year, while fraternally he is affiliated with the 
Masonic order, the Ancient Order of United Workmen, the Woodmen of 
America, the Woodmen of the World, the Mutual Benefit Association, the 
Yeomen, the Court of Honor and the Home Guardians. He is at the present 
time president of the board of directors of the City Rescue Mission (now 
called Union City Mission.) 

	On the 15th of November, 1881, in Henderson, New York, Dr. Fulford 
was united in marriage to Miss Katie E. Thompson, her parents having 
been natives of Vermont. while her father was for many years a prominent 
merchant and influential citizen of Henderson. Dr. and Mrs. Fulford have 
two children, Allen Thompson, who was born January 4, 1895, and Sydney, 
who was born February 10 1896. On December 15, 1903, they adopted a girl 
twelve years of age, named Ida Florence Fulford.