George Howard Fulford, M. D. Biography


	This biography appears on pages 350-351 in "History of Dakota Territory" 
	by George W. Kingsbury, Vol. IV (1915) and was scanned, 
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				GEORGE HOWARD FULFORD, M. D. 

	Dr. George Howard Fulford, a practicing physician of Sioux Falls, 
whose efforts are attended with gratifying success, was born in 
Chittenango, New York, on the 18th of July, 1854, a son of the Rev. 
Daniel Fulford, who was a native of England. He came to the United 
States when a youth of fourteen years and, entering the ministry of the 
Methodist Episcopal church devoted his entire life thereto. On coming 
to Dakota Territory in 1885 he settled in Sioux Falls and was active in 
revival work in the churches in that and neighboring towns to the time 
of his death, which occurred in 1889. His labors wore an effective 
force for moral progress. He was not denied the full harvest nor the 
aftermath of his efforts and his teaching and his example proved a 
turning point in the lives of many. He married Clara A. Hamilton, a 
native of New York and a descendant of one of the old New England 
families. 

	Dr. Fulford is the youngest of their three children. he acquired 
a liberal education, for after passing through the public schools in 
his native county he pursued a course in the Ogdensburg (N. Y.) 
Business School. Later he entered Ives Seminary, from which in due time 
he was graduated, and subsequently he studied for a year in Syracuse 
University His professional training was received at the Boston 
University School of Medicine, from which he was graduated with the 
class of 1880, winning his M. D. degree. He afterward took post-
graduate work in the New York Polyclinic and throughout all the passing 
years he has remained a student of his profession, reading broadly, 
thinking deeply and keeping in touch with the advancement made by the 
members of the medical fraternity. He began active practice in New 
Haven, New York, where he remained for two years and later spent three 
years in Henderson, New York. In 1885 he arrived in Dakota, settling at 
Sioux Falls, where he has since remained in general practice, his 
efforts being attended with very substantial and desirable results. He 
is the originator of the modern "three days' cure" for alcoholism. He 
belongs to the Tri-State Medical Association and the South Dakota State 
Homeopathic Association and he is regarded as an able and conscientious 
practitioner, ever careful in the diagnosis of his eases. 

	On the 26th of November, 1881, Dr. Fulford was united in marriage 
to Miss Katie Thompson, a daughter of George and Harriet Thompson, of 
Henderson, New York, and they have two children, Allen F. and Ida 
Florence. In his political views Dr. Fulford is an earnest republican 
and for one term he served as coroner in Minnehaha county, while at the 
present writing he is county superintendent of the board of health, 
which position he is now filling for the second term. Fraternally he is 
connected with the Masons and religiously with the Methodists. For many 
years he has been a member of the board of stewards, has been president 
of the board of trustees and is chairman of the building committee, 
having charge of the erection of a new edifice for the Methodist 
church. His interests are broad, his ideals high, his activities 
resultant and he stands not only as one of the eminent physicians of 
his section of the state but also as one of its representative and 
valued citizens.