Henry Fulton
Henry Fulton, the eighth child, and fifth son, of William and Eliza (Loofbourrow) Fulton, was born in Ross County, Ohio, August 3, 1826. His grandparents, John A. and Lavina (Irwin) Fulton, were of Pennsylvania, and came to Ohio in 1801, settling in Ross County.
John A. was a prominent surveyor of that early day, and in later years his son William pursued the same profession.
Henry, in his youth, enjoyed the meager advantages of the early schools of that time, and the prominent business qualities of the man Fulton, are more the results of practical contact with the world, than of his early schooling.
In November, 1846, he married Lettice, daughter of Shreve Pancoast, To their union has been born nine children: Wade, Shreve, Maggie, William, Polly, Effie, Franklin P., Harry, and Laban. Franklin P. died August 8, 1868, aged eight years.
Our subject is a man of local prominence, having served his township, either as trustee or treasurer, for the past twenty years, and was land appraiser in 1880. He owns two hundred and fifty acres of choice land at Madison Mills. Is a member of Bloomingburg Lodge, and of the Chapter, F. & A. M., at Washington, and treasurer of Madison Grange No. 229.
From R. S. Dills' History of Fayette County