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18tli congresses, 1818-35. He was chairman of the committee on naval affairs and opposed the Seminole war and the Missovu-i compromise. He was a reiweseutative in the state legislature in 1835 and speaker of the house. He removed to Grotou, Mass., in 1836, was a member of Gover- nor Lincoln's coimcil in 1838, and a repi'esentative in the state legislature in 1838. He published several pamphlets and addresses in support of peace and of the policy of John Quincy Adams. He died at Groton, Mass., Oct. 1, 1835.

FULLERTON, George Stuart, educator, was born at Futtigarh. India, Aug. 18, 18.59; son of the Rev. Robert Stuart and Jlartha (White) FuUerton. He was graduated from the Univer- sity of Pennsylvania A.B., 18T9; A.M., 1883; studied at the Princeton, N.J., theological semi- nary, 1878-79 ; and was graduated from Yale divinit3- school in 1883. He was ordained deacon and priest in the Protestant Epis- copal church, 1883- 84 ; was instructor in philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania, 1883- 85; adjunct profes- sor of philosophy, " 1885-87, and in 1887

^£0 S ^(AdoxT^ was advanced to the Adam Seybert chair of philosophy. He was dean of the depart- ment of philosopliy, 1889-91, and in 1894 was elected dean of the college and also vice-provost of the imiversity. In 1898 he resigned from his ad- ministrative office, retaining only the Adam Seybert professorship of intellectual and moral philosophy. He was elected to membership in the American philosoi>hical societ}' in 1890. He was married in 1884 to Rebekah Daingerfield, daugh- ter of David Boyd Smith of Alexandria, Va,. She died in 1891; he was again married in 1897 to Julia Winslow, daughter of John S. Dickerson of New York. His published writings include: Freliminnry Uppnrt of the Sei/hert Commission on iSpiritualism (1887); The Conception of the Infinite (1887) ; A Plain Argument for God (1889) ; On Sameness and Identity (1890) ; The Phiiosophy of Spinoza (1891, 3d ed., 1894); and contributions to religious periodicals.

FULLERTON, Joseph Scott, soldier, was born in Chillicothe, Ohi<j, in December, 1835. He was graduated at Miami university, A.B., 185G, A.M., 1857, and at Oxford, Ohio, law school, LL.B. in 1860. He was secretary of the commis- sion on Fr6mont claims, 1861-63; private in Ilalleck's guards, St. Louis, Mo, 1863; lieutenant,

3d Missouri infantry, 1803-63; captain on the staff of General Granger ; assistant adjutant with rank of major, army of Kentucky, 1863; and lieutenant-colonel from Nov. 10, 1863. At Chicka- mauga he I'ode by the side of General Granger in the charge made with General Steedman"s two brigades when they drove General Hindman"s division back and prevented an attack in the rear of General Thomas's army. In this rash up the ridge nearly half the men in the two divi- sions were either killed or wounded, but Granger and his staff officer were unhurt, although their clotliing was riddled with bullets. On May 19, 1865, FuUerton was assigned to duty on the staff of Gen. O. O. Howard. He was promoted colonel for brave and meritorious service, April 5. 1866, and brigadier-general, April 9, 1866. He was mustered out of the volunteer service and resumed his law practice in St. Louis, where he was postmaster, 1867-69. He died in a rail- road accident at Oakland, Md., March 30, 1897.

FULTON, John, clergyman, was born in Glas- gow, .Scotland, April 3, 1834; son of John and Anne (Dunn) Fulton. He was educated in Aberdeen, .Scotland. In 1853 he removed to the United States and five years later was ordained to the ministry of the Protestant Episcopal church at New Orleans, La. He afterward served in Georgia, Alabama, Wisconsin and Missouri. In 1893 he became editor of the Churrh Standard. In May, 1898, he was elected by the diocese of Peimsylvania one of the clerical deputies of the general convention of the Protes- tant Ejjiscopal church in which he had previously served several times. He received the honorary degree of D.D. from the University of Georgia in 188, that of LL.D. from the University of Alabama in 1883, and that of D.C.L. from the Uni- versity of the South in 1897. He is the author of: Letters on Christian Unity (1868) ; Index Canommi (1873); Laxos of Marriaije (1883); The Beautiful Land (1889); The Chaleedonian Decree (1891); 3Iarria{te and Divorce (1898); and contributions to Church periodical literature.

FULTON, Justin Dewey, clergyman, was born in Earlville, N.Y., March 1, 1826; son of John I. and Clarissa (Dewey) Fulton; and gi-and- son of Samuel Fulton. He was graduated from the University of Rochester in 1853 and from the Rochester theological seminary in 1854, He was ordained pastor of the Tabernacle Baptist church, St, Louis, and was editor of the Gospel Banner in that city, 1854-55, He was pastor of a church in Sandusky. Ohio, 1855-59; pastor of the Taber- nacle Baptist church, Albany, N.Y., 1859-63. and of the Tremont Temple. Boston, Mass., 1863-73. In 1873 lie removed to Brooklyn, N.Y., where he was pastor of the Hanson Place church and editor of the Christian in the World until 1876,