Lockley, Fred.  "History of the Columbia River Valley, From The Dalles to the
Sea." Vol. 3.  S. J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1928.  p. 516.
 
J. A. FULTON, M. D.

     Dr. J. A. Fulton, of Astoria, is recognized as an able physician and
surgeon of this section of the state and has built up a practice which extends
beyond, the limits of his own locality. He was born in Harrison county, Iowa,
and is a son of Jacob and Ann (McAllister) Fulton, the former a native of Ohio,
while the mother was a native of Scotland and lost both of her parents by death
on shipboard while the family was en route to America. The Fulton family is of
English origin and was first established in this country about 1700, the
emigrant ancestor settling on Long Island, New York. Two of the Doctor's
great-great-uncles, by the name of Tompkins, fought in the war of the
Revolution, one on the British side and the other on the side of the colonies.
In the War of 1812 several members of the Fulton family fought against the
British and in the Civil war the Doctor's father served as a lieutenant in an
Iowa regiment of infantry until the close of the war. On returning to civil life
he went back to Iowa, where he lived until 1870, when he moved to Nebraska,
being a pioneer of the locality in which he settled, and there followed his
trade of carpentering. He was very active in church work, being a choir leader
and class-leader. He was a member of the Masonic order and the Grand Army of the
Republic. His death occurred in 1890 and his wife passed away about 1915.
     J. A. Fulton received his elementary education in the public schools and,
after studying medicine, in 1886 he went to Europe, where he attended noted
clinics and took postgraduate work at the universities of Vienna, Austria,
Berlin, Germany, London, England, and Edinburgh, Scotland. On his return to this
country he entered upon the practice of his profession at Astoria, where he has
remained to the present time. An able physician and skilled surgeon, he has
during the forty years of his practice rendered a distinctive and appreciated
service to his community and is held in grateful regard by thousands who have
been benefited through his ministrations. Dr. Fulton served two terms as state
health officer and during the. World war was chairman of the board of medical
examiners of his district.
     On June 27, 1888, Dr. Fulton was united in marriage to Miss Virginia Edee,
who is a native of Illinois and is a daughter of C. H. and Virginia (Barnett)
Edee, both of whom died in Nebraska. Dr. and Mrs. Fulton have two children:
Madge graduated from the University of Oregon, after which she took a course in
journalism at Whitman College, in Washington. She also attended the University
of Washington and took a special course at the University of California. She is
the wife of Max Whittlesey, of Tacoma, Washington, and they have two children,
Robin and Barnett. Constance is the wife of Lloyd Van Dusen, of Astoria, a
member of a prominent pioneer family of this city, and they have two children,
Fulton and Brenham. Dr. Fulton is a member of the Clatsop County Medical
Society, the Oregon State Medical Society, of which he is a past president, and
the American Medical Association and is a Fellow of the American College of
Surgeons, He also belongs to the Woodmen of the World. He has always taken an
effective interest in those things which concerned the progress and well-being
of his community and was a member of the committee of twenty-one who induced A.
B. Hammond to extend the railroad to Astoria, since which time he has served as
its surgeon.  In many other ways his public spirit has been in evidence and no
citizen of Astoria commands to a greater degree the respect and confidence of
the people.

 
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Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in January 2010 by Diana Smith. Submitter
has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned above.